| Acronym | Meaning |
| AVS | American Vacuum Society |
| FMF | Familial Mediterranean Fever |
| ATCC | American Type Culture Collection |
| CF | Cystic Fibrosis |
| FTICR | Fourier Transform Ioncyclotron Resonance |
| IMA | Institute For Mathematics And Its Applications |
| SDC | San Diego Conference |
| IMAGE | Integrated Molecular Analysis Of Gene Expression |
| IUBMB | Intl. Union Of Biochemistry And Molecular Biology |
| FVEA | Fundacion Valenciana De Estudios Avanzados |