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January 2016
3rd International Workshop on Lung Health, Asthma and COPD: converging
Following a very successful workshop in Valencia attended by over 500 participants and taking into account the requests of the participants themselves, in 2016 the Workshop will be dedicated to the Asthma and COPD and their impact on lung health. It will be focused on similarities and differences between the two most important chronic pathologies affecting the lungs and on overlap syndrome with new updates and developments in the discipline, including important topics such as guiding the treatment approach, the…
Find out more »Mayo Clinic Cardiology Update: a focus on prevention
The purpose of this Mayo Clinic Preventive Cardiology meeting is to present state-of-the-art knowledge in cardiology with a clinically-based approach. The scope of this Preventive Cardiology programme is broad and will cover a wide spectrum of cardiovascular diseases but generally focused on prevention of coronary disease, stroke and sudden death. Expert faculty will present practical clinical approaches to diagnostics and latest management strategies of challenging and controversial topics in cardiology.
Find out more »Festival of Genomics
The most inclusive place to meet the genomics community, so take advantage and create new collaborations across healthcare, academia and industry. For academia, keep abreast of the latest developments in genomics research and gain insight into the work translating from publications to the clinic. The Francis CRICK Institute The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute University of Manchester EMBL If you are in drug development, diagnostics or other industry you’ll benchmark your applications for genomic information against case studies from leaders such as: GSK Roche AstraZeneca…
Find out more »2016 Progress and Controversies in Gynaecologic Oncology Conference
This meeting will serve as a valuable forum for the presentation and discussion of newly available data across various gynaecologic malignancies, including ovarian, cervical, and endometrial cancers. Participants will be provided with updates on practice-changing data in a practical and interactive format, fostering discussion, and impacting clinical outcomes for patients. After successful completion of this educational activity, participants should be able to: - Develop a practical approach to cervical cancer and vulvar cancer disease management; - Describe the role of…
Find out more »Drug Discovery for Parasitic Diseases
Parasitic organisms, including protozoa and helminths, are among the most significant human pathogens, causing billions of infections and millions of deaths each year. For many parasitic diseases, available therapies are unsatisfactory and increasingly threatened by drug resistance. New therapies, ideally directed against novel targets, are urgently needed. Recent advances in anti-parasitic drug discovery have come from three different approaches – target-based methods that build on improved understanding of parasite biology; phenotypic high-throughput screens that are benefitting from improved technology; and…
Find out more »3rd Allergy, Asthma, and COPD Conference
The conference will bring together industry, academia and government experts in the field of allergy, asthma and COPD. Experts will facilitate discourse on the challenges and opportunities for therapeutic and drug development for allergic diseases for the current and future generations. Topics will range from basic scientific research to biomarkers and clinical development. Novel immune targets, new therapeutic interventions, genetics, epigenetics and biomarkers in allergic diseases will be presented. Please join us for presentations on the latest research as well…
Find out more »Better Breathing Conference
An annual conference for respiratory health professionals with plenary speeches, presentations, workshops and debates on respiratory health issues. Sessions feature the latest research and therapies in the prevention, detection and treatment of lung disease with particular emphasis on asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and lung cancer. Presented by the Ontario Lung Association and its professional societies - the Ontario Thoracic Society and the Ontario Respiratory Care Society.
Find out more »February 2016
Advanced Technologies & Treatments for Diabetes (ATTD 2016)
The 9th International Conference on Advanced Technologies & Treatments for Diabetes (ATTD 2016) follows the success of previous meetings including ATTD 2015 which attracted 2,400 participants from 90 countries, where all participants agreed that this is the main networking event in the field! ATTD 2016 will attract an international audience of researchers and clinicians from the fields of diabetes, endocrinology and metabolism, diabetes technology developers as well as general and family medicine practitioners.
Find out more »May 2016
New Approaches to Vaccines for Human and Veterinary Tropical Diseases
Human and livestock vaccines can contribute to improved human welfare and income generation by maintaining human health and meeting the demand for meat, milk and fish in developing countries. All of these factors contribute to the growing importance of improving food safety, availability and nutritional security. An important component of this Keystone Symposia meeting will be to stimulate crosstalk between the human and veterinary vaccine communities by highlighting cross-cutting technical advances and new science and knowledge from laboratory and field…
Find out more »February 2017
31st International Papillomavirus Conference (HPV 2017)
The 31st International Papillomavirus Conference will be held in Cape Town, South Africa, on 28 February – 4 March 2017. Through workshops, invited lectures and oral and poster sessions presenting the latest research results, the conference will cover papillomavirus (PV)-related topics from basic science to global health impact. In line with the IPVS mission of addressing the most recent advances across the spectrum of PV research, conference themes will include the epidemiology and molecular biology of PVs; animal models for…
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