Ms Alison Wilson (co-chair) and poster prize winner, Mr Sam Bullers

A chance to hear from great scientists in an informal setting – described (by a delegate) Euroscicon’s successful Regenerative Medicine event, which took place on the 16th February. The meeting was well attended and had many interesting talks – starting off with the future potential of cellular immunotherapies and ending with a talk on their regulation in the UK. Other speakers talked about skeletal stem cells in bone regeneration, haematopoietic stem cells, the use of stem cells for cardiac regeneration and translating research into viable clinical treatments.

The chair of the meeting (Professor Christopher Hewitt), was unfortunately unable to attend, at the last minute, but Dr Simon Ellison and Ms Alison Wilson kindly agreed to chair the first and second half of the meeting, respectively.

Delegates liked the meeting as it was informal, provided useful information on regenerative medicine and had an array of topics. They also like the access to industry that the meeting provided.

The poster prize winner was Sam Bullers (Understanding the human tissue interactions with extracellular matrix-derived biological scaffolds) and the feedback prize winner was Tristan Pritchard Meaker.

Euroscicon have now introduced a bursary scheme to enable people who might otherwise not be able to come, to attend our events. This is being made possible by increased sponsorship that Euroscicon is receiving.

If we are running an event this year (please see http://lifescienceevents.com/event-listing for our full list) which you or your colleagues  have no funds to attend,  please download our bursary application form at www.euroscicon.com/Bursary.docx and send  the completed forms in as soon as you can.

Following on from the success of our 2010 and 2011 events, Professor Gary Lye is Chairing the third meeting in the series “Miniaturisation -Micro Scale Bioprocess Development”. Miniaturisation and automation of bioprocess development continues to be a rapidly expanding area of interest since the technologies promise to reduce biopharmaceutical development time and cost. This meeting aims to highlight recent technologies used in high throughput bioprocess development, from clone selection through to analysis of final product and formulation. A series of expert speakers will describe the development and use of current miniaturisation technologies together with the  technical and regulatory hurdles that must be overcome to facilitate wider industrial uptake.

www.regonline.co.uk/miniature2012

Meeting Chair:  Professor Gary J Lye, PhD, CEng, CSci, FIChemE, Director Industrial Doctoral Training Centre, Deputy Head of Department, The Advanced Centre for Biochemical Engineering, Department of Biochemical Engineering, University College London, UK

 www.regonline.co.uk/miniature2012

The EMBO Meeting 2012, 22-25 September, Nice, France

EARLY REGISTRATION & ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: 12 JUNE 2012

ON-LINE REGISTRATION: 4 SEPTEMBER 2012

Featuring an impressive line-up of more than 120 world-class scientific speakers, including: Paul Nurse, Linda Partridge, Kari Alitalo, Steven Henikoff and Rob Singer.

The programme includes three plenary lecture sessions devoted to genomics, RNA and oxygen sensing, vasculogenesis and disease.

20 concurrent sessions juxtapose classical fields of research with those exploring new frontiers in molecular biology.

Daily meet the speaker lunches, giving access to leading researchers, and poster sessions extend the scientific programme.

Friday 30th March 2012

To be held at the RVC’s Camden Campus, Royal College Street, London NW1 0TU

This exciting one‐day symposium focuses on the ontogeny, plasticity and inter‐relationships of regulatory T cells (Tregs) and T helper (Th) cells. It will consider both the fundamental biology of these cells and their translational potential, drawing on the expertise of world‐class speakers who are all actively engaged in research within this rapidly evolving area of immunology.

This symposium will provide an ideal opportunity for networking, aiming to bring together both international authorities in Treg and Th cell biology and more junior members of the profession, who will be able to present their work in a friendly environment.

Refreshments and lunch will be provided in the setting of the widely acclaimed Camden Lightwell of the Royal Veterinary College, an academic institution with over 200 years of heritage in veterinary medicine and bioscience.

Click on

http://cpd.rvc.ac.uk/courses/treg-regulatory-t-cells-and-t-helper-cells

for full course details

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Speakers from Biomarkers for Personalised Health Care: Need, Development and Use, which took place on the 9th September 2011.

Euroscicon are pleased to announce the publication of this meeting report in Biomarkers in Medicine:

Conference Scene: Biomarkers in the field of oncology Anthony   Warford , Biomarkers in Medicine, December 2011, Vol. 5, No. 6, Pages 823-825

Speakers from ’2nd Annual Modern Challenges in Therapeutic Protein’  which took place on 10th June 2011

Euroscicon are pleased to announce that the meeting report from this event has been published in Expert Reviews of Proteomics:

Modern-day challenges in therapeutic protein production. Kenneth Fuh, Expert Review of Proteomics, Oct 2011, Vol. 8, No. 5, Pages 563-564.

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