RTI International - News Release - 10.2.2009

Registration for 2009 RTI International Fellows Symposium Now Available

Symposium will take place Nov. 2 and 3 in Chapel Hill, N.C.

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.—Registration for the 2009 RTI Fellows Symposium, "Integrating Basic and Applied Research," is now open to researchers.

The symposium will take place Nov. 2 and 3 at the Friday Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Interested people may register at the symposium Web site.

Registration is first come, first served and costs $25 per day.

Through plenary and targeted sessions at this two-day event, invited guests and RTI speakers will explore the potential for transdiciplinary research in a number of contemporary research areas and will foster collaboration among RTI, area universities, and the broader research community in basic and social sciences.

The 2009 program will focus in particular on

• The future of personalized medicine
• The behavioral neuroscience of alcoholism
• Global climate change
• Education opportunity and achievement
• Cancer, genetics, and health care disparities
• Community resilience following disasters
• The role of biofuels in energy sustainability
• High-performance cyberinfrastructures

For more details, see the tentative agenda on the symposium Web site. For assistance, send an e-mail to FellowsSymposium@rti.org.

The RTI Fellow Program sponsors a small group of distinguished scientists whose research interests span broad areas of health, medicine, and social policy; basic science and engineering; environmental and industrial sciences; and international health and development. The program was established to support RTI's mission to improve the human condition, and our Fellows provide scientific and technical leadership.