HIGHLIGHTS OF THE 1st JOINT AIDPIT AND EPITA WINTER SYMPOSIUM AND 30th AIDPIT WORKSHOP

The Workshop took place from the 23rd to 25th of January 2011 at Igls in Austria with delegates from all over Europe. The opening lecture was Adventures in transplantation: From the first pancreas transplants to the first hand and face transplants given by Jean-Michel Dubernard from department of Urology and Transplantation Surgery at Edouard Herriot Hospital in Lyon, France.

The Ernst-Friedrich Pfeiffer Memorial Lecture was Physiological replacement of insulin by injection or infusion: How close do we get? given by Edwin Gale from University of Bristol, UK.

The following days saw a rich programme with presentations from various speakers including:
Peter Friend, University of Oxford, UK
Anand Muthusamy, University of Oxford, UK
Dr. Helmut Arbogast, MD, University of Munich, Germany
Christian Toso, MD, PhD, Geneva, Switzerland
Paolo Fiorina, MD, PhD, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy
Carla Baan, Ph.D, Associate Professor at Erasmus MC, University of Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Pedro Herrera, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Hans Schlitt, University of Regensburg, Germany
Pratik Choudhary, Kings College Hospital, London, UK
Johann Pratschke, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Fabio Vistoli, University of Pisa, Italy
Richard Smith, University of Bristol, UK
Related articles - 30th workshop programme and abstract book (PDF)

2011 Workshop Prize winners

Congrautulations to Lelia van Bürck and Manuel Maglione who won prizes at the 30th Workshop.

Lelia van Bürck Human mesenchymal stroma cells can suppress xenogenic human-anti-pig immune response	Manuel Maglione Neuronal Nitric Oxide Synthase as novel target in Ischemia Reperfusion Injury