Conference Schedule

• Conference Schedule

Best Poster Awards

• Best Poster Awards

ECIT Award

• Early Career Investigator Travel Awards Recipients

Sponsors

• The 2013 meeting was partially sponsored by the R13 DA023184 conference award to Sulie L. Chang, Institute of NeuroImmune Pharmacology at Seton Hall University
• National Institute on Alcohol and Alcoholisms - $15,000 (To support Symposium #1; Neuroimmune Activation Contributes to Addiction Neurobiology, and Travel Scholarship to support young investigators involved in alcohol research).
• National Institute of Mental Health - $7000 (Partial sponsorship of SYMPOSIUM #6: Neuropathology of HIV-1 in an Aging Population)
• Department of Surgery-Basic and Translation Division, University of Minnesota Medical School - $6000 (Partial sponsorship of Reception)
• Institute of Neuroimmune Pharmacology and Center for Personalized NanoMedicine, HW College of Medicine, FIU - $5000 (Graduate trainee associated expenses)
• Dr. Brian Wigdahl - $5,000 (Early Career Investigator Lunch)
• Drs. Howard Fox / Shilpa Buch - $5,000 (Bill Narayan Memorial Lecture)
• Dr. Pravin Singhal - $3,000 (Early Career Investigator Travel Award)
• Drs. Tom Molitor / Sabita Roy - $2,500 (Grants Writing Workshop Lunch)
• Dr. Jose Lasalde, Vice President for Research & Technology, University of Puerto Rico - $2,000 (Program Book Printing)
• Dr. Richard Noel - $1,000 (Early Career Investigator Lunch)
• Dr. Kenira Thompson, Dean for Research, Ponce School of Medicine - $1,000 (Partial sponsorship of Early Career Investigator Lunch)

Plenary Lectures

	Bert t’Hart, PhD Biomedical Primate Research Center The Hague, The Netherlands		Benjamin Chen, MD, PhD Mount Sinai School of Medicine New York, NY, USA
	Tariq Rana, PhD Sanford Burnham Medical Research Institute La Jolla, CA, USA		Thirumala-Devi Kanneganti, PhD St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA
	Jon M. Lindstorm, PhD University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA, USA

Major Symposia

• Neuroimmune Activation Contributes to Addiction Neurobiology
• Animal Models of HIV infection and Drug Abuse
• Neuropathology of HIV-1 in an Aging Population
• Recent Advances in Nicotine Research
• Cannabinoids, HIV Pathogenicity, and other Infectious Disease Processes
• Emerging trends in Substance Abuse, HIV Infection and Neuropathogenesis
• Early Career Investigator Symposium
• Grant Writing Workshop for Early Career Investigators

Highlights

• Hotel rates from $169/night with free internet access
• Special hotel rates for first 50 students at $139/night
• Support provided for Early Career Investigators
• Special Welcome Reception & “Meet the Mentors” lunch
• Separate Early Career Investigator’s Poster Session

Additional Information

• Announcement Flyer
• Accommodations & Travel
• Tourism Suggestions from the Local Hosts
• Poster size Poster boards are 4 ft. tall by 6 ft. wide. All posters must fit within that size for mounting. If you have specific questions, please contact Dr. Richard Noel Jr (Rnoel@psm.edu).