Invitation to Foundation Evening Symposium

Anemia and beyond: new frontiers of erythropoietin research

24 April 2007, 19:00 – 20:30
RioCentro, Room 205 (1st level in Pavilion 5)

Chairman
Prof. Gavin Becker, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Australia

Speakers
Dr Nicoletta Eliopoulos
Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Montreal, Canada
“Cell and gene therapy with erythropoietin-secreting marrow stromal cells for renal failure”

Dr Ming-Yuan Tseng
Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, UK
“Effects of systemic erythropoietin therapy on cerebral autoregulation and the incidence of delayed ischaemic deficits in patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage”

Dr Jun-ichi Nishimura
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, USA
“Innovative drug design using RNA aptamers for various anemias”

Prof. Stéphane Picot
Université Claude Bernard, Lyon, France
“Erythropoietin treatment for cerebral malaria in children”

For further information, please visit us at exhibition booth no. 55

RoFAR is an independent foundation run by an international Board of Trustees and funded by an unrestricted grant from Roche. All entries are peer reviewed by an independent Scientific Advisory Board.