Molecular Mechanisms of Human Disease: Injury, Inflammation, and Tissue Repair
ASIP 2008 Summer Academy
July 12-14-2008 - Bethesda, MD

Molecular Mechanisms of Human Disease will be a 2-1/2 day in-depth overview of current and cutting edge cell and molecular biology of human diseases focusing on injury, inflammation, and tissue repair. This course is designed for graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, junior faculty, and scientists from industry desiring a better understanding of the mechanisms underlying basic physiologic processes and how those pathways contribute to pathology and disease.  For example, basic presentations on pathways of cell injury and apoptosis will be linked with strategies to limit cell death; leukocyte recruitment and activation will lead into informal discussions of atherosclerosis and septic shock.

The goal is to introduce researchers and educators to a broad sampling of new and exciting areas of biomedical research. 

Daily sessions are planned as a series of 1.5 hour blocks organized with basic overviews followed by frontiers presentations by national experts.  To supplement the presentations, hard-copy handouts and CD's with PowerPoint files will be available.

Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:
1. Understand the fundamental pathophysiologic mechanisms underlying human diseases in the areas of injury, inflammation, and tissue repair;
2. Appreciate the current limits of our knowledge of disease, as well as what are some of the exciting questions at those frontiers; and
3. Understand the tools and approaches that will allow research questions to be asked.