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October
2-6, 2008
Salishan Spa & Golf Resort, Gleneden Beach, Oregon
The
Biologic Basis of Psoriasis
Program
Chairs:
Andrew Blauvelt, MD
Oregon Health & Science University
Anne M. Bowcock, PhD
Washington University in St. Louis
The 2008 Montagna
Symposium on the Biology of Skin promises in-depth discussion of psoriasis:
the latest research in pathogenesis, genetics and drug design, the new questions
being framed from clinical experience, and the strategies for translating the
science to more effective treatments. The meeting will include sessions on
the immunology of psoriasis, the genetics of psoriasis, mouse models of psoriasis,
and discussions on how advances in these areas could translate into new therapies,
and will incorporate perspectives emerging from related fields. These include
recent discoveries relating to T cell subpopulations, cytokines, genetic susceptibility
factors, antigen identification, autoimmunity and innate immunity, cell surface
proteins and extracellular matrix interactions and their relationship to keratinocyte
proliferation, terminal differentiation and transit through the epidermis.
Invited
speakers include:
| Andrew
Blauvelt, M.D. |
Oregon
Health & Science University |
| Anne
M. Bowcock, Ph.D. |
Washington
University in St. Louis |
| Kristina Callis Duffin, M.D. |
University of Utah |
| Rachael
Clark, M.D., Ph.D. |
Brigham
and Women’s Hospital / Harvard University |
| Kevin
Cooper, M.D. |
Case
Western Reserve University |
| Daniel
Cua, M.D., Ph.D. |
Schering-Plough
Research Institute |
| Michael
Detmar, M.D. |
Swiss
Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland |
| John
DiGiovanni, Ph.D. |
University
of Texas |
| James
T. Elder, M.D. |
University
of Michigan |
| James
Krueger, M.D. |
Rockefeller
University |
| Frank
Nestle, M.D. |
King’s
College School of Medicine, London, UK |
| Brian
Nickoloff, M.D. |
Loyola
University of Chicago |
| Wenjun
Ouyang, Ph.D. |
Genentech,
Inc. |
| Joost
Schalkwijk, Ph.D. |
Radboud University Nijmegen, Sweden |
| Julie
Segre, Ph.D. |
NIH,
National Human Genome Research Institute |
| Eniko
Sonkoly, M.D., Ph.D. |
Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden |
| Richard
Trembath, M.D |
King’s
College School of Medicine, London, UK |
| Xiao-Jing
Wang, M.D., Ph.D. |
Oregon
Health & Science University |
Additional
speakers will be chosen from abstracts.
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