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Dear Colleagues:

We are writing to request that your corporation consider providing financial support for the 19th Symposium of the Protein Society (July 30-August 3, 2005, Boston, Massachusetts): "The Integration of the Cellular Protein Machinery: Complexes to Networks.” The Protein Society’s Annual Symposium has a reputation for excellence and, as you can see from the enclosed preliminary program, our co-chairs Jonathan Weissman (University of California, San Francisco) and Daniel Raleigh (SUNY-Stony Brook) have put together a program that will continue this tradition. Sponsorship is a valuable way to gain maximum exposure for your organization at the 19th Annual Symposium.

Three concurrent mini-symposia on the opening day of the symposium will be featured: The applications of high-tech mass spectrometry to problems in biology, Computational biology/bioinformatics, and Protein-based biomaterials. The 2005 meeting features over 50 invited speakers and includes sessions on: protein-ligand interactions; the function and assembly of molecular machines; protein misfolding and amyloid formation; protein engineering and design; membrane proteins; protein nucleic acid interactions; and frontiers of protein science. Highlighting the theme of this meeting are three sessions on Systems Biology, including an opening plenary session and two award plenary sessions.

The Protein Society’s 2005 Stein and Moore Award will be jointly presented to Dr. Avram Hershko (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology) and Dr. Alexander Varshavsky (California Institute of Technology) for their revolutionary work in discovering the ubiquitin system of protein degradation, its mechanisms, and its significance to living cells. We are pleased to report that the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2004 "for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation" jointly to Dr. Avram Hershko, Dr. Aaron Ciechanover (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology) and Dr. Irwin Rose (University of California, Irvine).

We are pleased to report that the recipients of four other 2005 Society awards will also be acknowledged at Plenary Award Sessions:

• The 2005 Christian B. Anfinsen Award will be awarded to Dr. Matthias Mann (University of Southern Denmark) for his groundbreaking contributions to the application of mass spectrometry methods and proteomics to the functional analysis of genes.
• The 2005 Emil Thomas Kaiser Award will be awarded to Dr. Ronald Raines (University of Wisconsin—Madison) for his pioneering contributions in the fields of protein structure and function and defined modifications via the development of the Staudinger ligation, the first chemical reaction that enables efficient coupling of peptides at any amino acid residue.
• The 2005 Hans Neurath Award will be awarded to Dr. Roderick MacKinnon (Rockefeller University) for his pioneering contributions to our understanding of how potassium channels – as protein molecules – work.  Dr. MacKinnon stunned the research community when in 1998 he determined the three-dimensional structure of a potassium channel, and thanks to this contribution, we can now “see” ions flowing through channels that can be opened and closed by different cellular signals.
• The 2005 Irving Sigal Young Investigator Award will be awarded to Dr. Thomas Muir (Rockefeller University) for his pioneering contributions to the physico-chemical basis of protein function via the development of the protein ligation (EPL) approach, which allows recombinant polypeptides and synthetic polypeptides to be ligated together through a normal peptide bond.

We are seeking corporate sponsorship for the Opening Reception ($15,000), Briefcases/tote bags ($7,000), Opening Plenary session ($5,000), Scientific sessions ($3,000), Coffee/Snack breaks ($2,500) and Educator’s Luncheon: Systems Biology ($1,000/other). Individual speakers ($1,500) in scientific sessions may also be sponsored. In addition, we are pleased to accept support for the Undergraduate Student and Faculty Session ($500/other); Career Panel ($500); Mixer for Undergraduate Faculty and Students ($500/other); Young Protein Scientists Committee sponsored Mixer ($500/other); Finn Wold Travel Awards ($500/other); Best Student/Postdoc Research Idea Session ($250/other); and general symposium costs. Corporate sponsorship is prominently acknowledged in the meeting program, on symposium meeting signs, on the Society web site, and in the Society newsletter. Download the detailed sponsor form>

We are confident that you are aware of the importance of protein science in biomedicine and biotechnology, and of the importance of scientific meetings in advancing these fields. Since 1986, the Protein Society has served a leading role in the development of protein science and technology by pursuing excellence within the discipline, and by simulating research, and supporting public policy outreach in the United States and international arena. The success of the Protein Society in both ongoing and new ventures depends upon the funding provided by corporate sponsors.

To support the furthering of research and development in protein science, please consider becoming a corporate sponsor of the 19th Annual Symposium of the Protein Society. Your sponsorship is valuable to you and the future of protein science. If you have any questions please feel free to contact Cindy A. Yablonski (Executive Officer) at (301) 634-7277 at cyablonski@proteinsociety.org. Thank you for your consideration.
Together, we can make 2005 an exceptional year for protein science and the Protein Society.

Sincerely

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