International Conference Targeting Resistant Diseases

This conference will be held as a satellite conference to the "Symposium on RNA Biology IV. RNA: Target and Tool" which will be held at the Friday Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, from 8:00AM Friday morning, October 19 through Sunday noon, October 21, 2001. The official conference website is: http://www.mbio.ncsu.edu/RNAsymp/

Conference Purpose:
Some twenty years have passed since the first case of AIDS was reported in the US. Basic and applied research initially directed solely at HIV AIDS has not only generated conceptually new approaches resulting in controls of viral replication, but has also led researchers to nucleic acids, in general, as targets and tools of investigation. The conference "From Genome to the Clinic: Nucleic Acid and Protein Targets in Discovery of Modern Antiviral Drugs", as Satellite meeting of the Symposium on RNA Biology: RNA Tool and Target, has two purposes. The first is to provide an interdisciplinary forum at which investigators involved in basic, applied and clinical research can meet to review current developments in nucleic acid and genomics technologies for drug discovery, particularly in antiviral research. Topics to be covered include genomics, functional and structural genomics, targeting, in vitro evaluations, pharmacokinetics, toxicology, and clinical research, synthesis and chemistry, biochemistry and mechanism of action, molecular biology. The second purpose is to bring US and Polish scientists together in a forum that could generate international collaborations in these areas of research.

Conference Sponsors:

North Carolina State University, Duke University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, The Institute of Biorganic Chemistry and Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznan, Poland, The North Carolina Biotechnology Center

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