Plan to Attend the ASTMH 54th Annual Meeting

The ASTMH 54th Annual Meeting will be held December 11-15, 2005, at the Hilton Washington Hotel and Towers in Washington, DC. Submit your symposium proposal by June 1 at http://www.astmh.org/meetings/symposia.cfm. Submit your abstract by July 1 to http://www.astmh.org/meetings/call.cfm. Call the Hilton to make your hotel reservations now at 202-483-3000 and mention the ASTMH meeting to receive discounted room rates. Visit http://www.astmh.org/meetings/index.cfm for meeting updates. A registration brochure with detailed meeting schedule will be mailed in the coming months.

Pre-Meeting Courses
Immune Regulation: Parasites and Chronic Infectious Diseases will be held Saturday, December 10, 2005, at the Hilton Washington Hotel and Towers in Washington, DC, immediately preceding the ASTMH 54th Annual Meeting. This one-day workshop will target scientists, physicians, clinicians, graduate students and educators with interests in the rapidly evolving field of immune regulation and its role on parasitic and chronic infectious diseases.

Topics will include an overview of immune regulation, regulatory T-cells, inhibitors of T-cell regulation and strategies to overcome pathogen evasion, as well as pathogen-specific presentations. The course will benefit those who want to stay abreast of recent advances in the understanding of the immune regulation and potential strategies for combating infectious diseases. Course details will be sent with the registration brochure. Visit http://www.astmh.org/meetings/premeeting.cfm for updates.

Anti-Malaria Chemoprophylaxis will be held Saturday, December 10, and Sunday, December 11, 2005, at the Hilton Washington Hotel and Towers in Washington, DC, immediately preceding the ASTMH 54th Annual Meeting. This two-day workshop will target clinicians and travel medicine practitioners with an interest in the prevention of malaria using different chemoprophylaxis strategies.

Topics will include an overview of chemoprophylaxis strategies, use of different drugs in special populations, current regulatory status of approved drugs, updates on resistance patterns, review of CDC yellow book recommendations, and adverse event profiles of the approved drugs. Course details will be sent with the registration brochure. Visit http://www.astmh.org/meetings/premeeting.cfm for updates.

ASTMH Offers Annual Meeting Travel Awards,
Student Awards and More
Travel Awards
ASTMH has limited funding to support annual meeting travel of selected young investigators from developing countries and students from the United States. Travel award applicants participate in the meeting through oral or poster presentation, and applications are evaluated based on financial need and research activities within the tropical medicine field. Applicants need not be ASTMH members.

To apply for a travel award, download an application at http://www.astmh.org/meetings/Travel_Award_App.doc or e-mail astmh@astmh.org to request an application form. The application deadline is June 1. Recipients will be notified in early August and recognized at the opening plenary session on Sunday, December 11. Contact astmh@astmh.org with questions.

ACME Student Travel Awards
Awards in the amount of $500 are available to support travel and accommodation costs for graduate students attending the ASTMH annual meeting. Student registration costs for the annual meeting also will be waived for the award winners. One or more awards will be made each year depending on availability of funds. Award winner(s) will be recognized and receive a certificate at the ASTMH annual meeting plenary session.

Applicants must present their research either orally or in a poster format during the ASTMH annual meeting. The subject matter of the presentation should directly or indirectly involve arthropods of medical importance. The ACME student travel award subcommittee will make final decisions about the eligibility of applicants and will select the winner(s).

Financial need, significance and quality of presentation abstract, and letter of recommendation will be taken into consideration as applications are reviewed. To apply, submit to the address below a cover letter, completed application form, copy of your ASTMH annual meeting presentation abstract, and one letter of recommendation from a major professor or faculty advisor. Download application and recommendations forms from the ACME Web site at http://www.astmh.org/SIC/ACMe_travel_awardapp.pdf. All application materials must be postmarked by July 1, 2005.

Send your completed application materials to:
Dr. Shirley Luckhart
Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology
3146 Tupper Hall, One Shields Avenue
School of Medicine, UC Davis
Davis, CA 95616

Student Book Award
A Student Book Award is issued at the annual meeting by the ASTMH Clinical Group (American Committee on Clinical Tropical Medicine and Travelers' Health—ACCTMTH) in conjunction with Elsevier. This award recognizes excellence in clinically oriented research presented by a student at the annual meeting. Download an application at http://www.astmh.org/meetings/book_award.doc. The application deadline is September 1.

Gorgas Memorial Institute Research Award
The purpose of this award is to enhance and facilitate the development of scientific linkages among Panama, nations of Central America, tropical and sub-tropical South America and the Caribbean Islands, Mexico, and the United States and Canada through support of short-term travel for young research investigators from these regions for the purposes of: 1) establishing collaborative biomedical research projects focusing on tropical diseases of health importance to people living in these areas; and 2) learning new techniques and approaches applicable to the study of such diseases. Download complete application guidelines at http://www.astmh.org/funding/gorgasad.cfm. The application deadline is August 1.

Pfizer Centennial Travel Award in Basic Science Tropical Disease Research
The purpose of the award is to facilitate international collaboration in basic science aspects of tropical infectious diseases and to provide interested physicians or scientists the opportunity to obtain hands-on field experience and laboratory studies of parasitic, bacterial or viral infectious diseases in endemic developing countries. The award will provide $3,000 to help defray travel costs and living expenses abroad. Contact astmh@astmh.org for complete application guidelines. The application deadline is September 15.

Young Investigator Award
ASTMH will present the 21st Annual Young Investigator Award to an outstanding young researcher(s) during the 54th annual meeting. This award is designed to encourage developing young scientists to pursue careers in various aspects of tropical disease research.

To be eligible for consideration, the young investigator must 1) submit an abstract to the ASTMH meeting and 2) have completed the majority of work reported in his or her accepted abstract as an undergraduate or graduate student, or during the first two years of postdoctoral study. (For a young scientist with a medical degree, the two years refers to the actual time spent performing research. The time spent as an intern/resident is not considered part of the two-year period.) In addition, the young investigator should have had a primary role in the reported experimentation, as evidenced by first-author status on the abstract.

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