The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $7,500 to help support the Malaria Immunology Workshop on ìImmunology of Malaria Infections: Implications for the Design and Development of Malaria Vaccinesî held in February 2005 in Baltimore, Maryland.

The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $10,000 to fund the session on ìRelevance of T. gondii to Fighting Apicomplexan Diseases at the 8th International Congress on Toxoplasmosis held May 27-31, 2005 in Corsica, France.

The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $5,000 to support a symposium at the International Congress on Microsporidiosis ìEmerging Pathogens in the 21st Century: First United Workshop on Microsporidia from Invertebrate and Vertebrate Hostsî held July 12-15, 2004 at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic.

The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $10,000 to help support the workshop ìFrom Outside to Inside: Environmental Microorganisms as Human Pathogensî held in Portland, Oregon on February 6-8, 2004.

The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $10,000 to support the American Committee of Molecular, Cellular and Immuno-Parasitology symposium on Immune Evasion and Immunomodulation by Parasites as part of the 2004 Annual Meeting of Tropical Medicine held in Miami, Florida on November 7-11, 2004. The funds will also help support scientific sessions that will incorporate award-winning presentations from graduate students and post-docs from the Woods Hole ImmunoParasitology Meeting and the Molecular Parasitology Meeting. For further information, see http://www.astmh.org/meetings/meeting2004.html

The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $3,500 to support a project on Good Laboratory Practices: Principles and Practical Applications for Malaria Research in Africa held June 23-30, 2004 in Legon, Accra, Ghana

The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $8,000 to support a project entitled Microbial Pathogenesis: Mechanisms of Infectious Diseases at the FASEB Summer Research Conference held August 14-19, 2004 in Snowmass Village, Colorado.

The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $10,000 to support two sessions, ìGenome Instability and Agingî and ìGenetics and Genomics of Infectious Disease,î at the 18th International Mouse Genome Conference held October 18-21, 2004 in Seattle, Washington. For further information, see http://www.mousegenomeconference.com/

The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $10,000 to support Keynote Addresses and the Host Control of Persistence Plenary Session at the Pathogen Host Standoff Keystone Symposia held March 25-30, 2004 in Taos, New Mexico. For further information, see http://www.keystonesymposia.org/Meetings/ViewMeetings.cfm?MeetingID=695

The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $5,000 to help support an undergraduate student-organized Conference on International Health co-sponsored by the Harvard and MIT Hippocratic Societies. The conference was held February 21-22, 2004 at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. For further information, see http://www.hippocraticsociety.org/

The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $10,000 to help support Vaccines: Symposium in Honor of Dr. Ruth Nussenzweig held March 22-23, 2004 at NYU School of Medicine.

The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $5,000 to help support a series of meetings on Mycology and Parasites held in the Chicago area in 2004.

The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $7,500 to support a session on Persistent Infections held at the Gordon Research Conference on Microbial Toxins and Pathogenesis July 18-23, 2004 in Andover, New Hampshire.

The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $10,000 to help support the University of Pennsylvania project on The Molecular Approaches to Malaria 2004 held February 1-5, 2004 in Lorne, Victoria, Australia.

The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $7,500 to help support the Entamoeba histolytica Post-Genome Meeting held September 18-19 2004 in Charlottesville, Virginia.

The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $5,000 to support the session on T. gondii: Relevance to Other Experimental Systems at the Seventh International Congress on Toxoplasmosis held on May 23-27, 2003 in Tarrytown, New York.

The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $10,000 to support the American Committee of Molecular, Cellular, and Immuno-Parasitology at the annual meeting of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on December 3-7, 2003.

The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $10,000 to help support the Third Workshop: Dengue Virus: Molecular Basis of Cell Entry and Pathogenesis to be held June 25-27, 2003 in Vienna, Austria.

The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $2,500 to help support a workshop on the Genome and Biology of the Trichomonads held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on December 2-4, 2003.

The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $5,000 to support the symposium on International Problems in Antimicrobial Resistance at the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases 2003 Annual Conference on Antimicrobial Resistance. The Conference will be held in Bethesda, Maryland on June 23-25, 2003.

The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $20,000 and has pledged $20,000/year for 2 additional years to support an Emerging Infectious Diseases Discussion Group at the New York Academy of Sciences. This group will meet at regular intervals to discuss current topics in emerging infectious diseases. The Academy provides e-briefings of the discussions, and a schedule of upcoming discussions, via a portal on its website at http://www.nyas.org/scitech/eid.cfm

The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $10,000 to help support the PHRI 2003 Symposium on Infectious Diseases and Threats to Public Health held November 3, 2003 in Newark, New Jersey. The program included presentations on TB, HIV, West Nile virus, SARS and potential agents of bioterrorism such as anthrax and smallpox.

The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $10,000 to help support a short course on Epidemiological Modeling and Analysis held at the Workshop on HIV-AIDS at the Universityís Berkeley Campus South African Centre in Cape Town, South Africa on December 1-5, 2003.

The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $5,000 to help support the Wind River Conference on Prokaryotic Biology, an international meeting of senior researchers, younger scientists, and students. The conference will be held in June 2003 in Estes Park, Colorado.

The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $9,996 to help support two inter-related meetings, the Filariasis Research Summit on December 7-8, 2003 and the Forum on Research Needed to Support the Global Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis on December 7-10, 2003 held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $10,000 to help support a workshop on the Dynamics and Energetic Bases of Health and Aging held November 11-13, 2002 in Bethesda, MD.

The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $10,000 to
help support The Global Genome Question: Microbes
as the Key to Understanding Evolution and Ecology
colloquium, American Academy of Microbiology to be
held October 11-13, 2002 in Charleston, South
Carolina.

The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $10,000 to help
support the ASTMH's 51st Annual Meeting,
Symposium on Molecular Parasitology, to be held
November 10-14, 2002 in Denver, Colorado.

The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $3,060 to help support the FASEB Summer Research Conference on Protein Lipidation, Signaling and Membrane Domains held July 20-25 in Tucson, Arizona

The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $10,000 to help support the Conference on Biology of Host-Parasite Interactions held June 16-21, 2002 in Newport, Rhode Island.

The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $25,000 to help fund a workshop
on Antibody Protection against Viral Infections: Special Reference to
Dengue held in Bethesda, Maryland June 3-4, 2002.

The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $25,000 to help support the Conference on Malaria: Progress, Problems and Plans in the Genomic Era held January 27-29, 2002 at the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute.

The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $25,000 to help support the Conference on Malaria: Progress, Problems and Plans in the Genomic Era held January 27-29, 2002 at the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute.

The Ellison Medical Foundation has committed up to $311,940 to support colloquia on the Biology of Aging and on Global Infectious Disease to be held in alternating years from 2002-2004 at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA.

The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $4,000 to help support an undergraduate student-organized Conference on Infectious Disease co-sponsored by the Harvard and MIT Hippocratic Societies. The conference was held March 9-10, 2002 at Harvard University and provided a forum for undergraduate students to discuss and examine the ethical, scientific, legal and economic implications of infectious disease with leaders in the field.

The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $10,000 to help fund the Dendritic
Cells at the Host Pathogen Interface Conference held in Airlie, Virginia May
4-7,2002.

The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $2,620 to help
support the National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Conference on The Evolution of Infectious Diseases held
August 29-30, 2002 in Bethesda, Maryland.

The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $14,000 to help support the Workshop on Modern Concepts and Understanding of Parasitic Diseases held in Bhubaneswar, India in February 2002.

The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $2,500 to help
support the Endosymbiont Symposium, 10th International
Congress of Parasitology held August 4-9, 2002 in
Vancouver, Canada.

The Ellison Medical Foundation has awarded $10,000 to help support a workshop on Consequences of Disease Eradication hosted by the Forum on Emerging Infections, Institute of Medicine. It was held on February 1-2, 2001 in Washington, DC.