Scientific Programme

OCTOBER 22 - TUESDAY Opening Ceremony 10.00 H.H. Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum 10.15 Chairman - Board of Trustees 10.30 Chairman - Scientific Committee 10.45 - 11.30 Coffee Session I - 11.30 - 12.45 hrs Infertility Chairpersons - Dr Najib Al Khaja and Dr Saad Ghazal Aswad 11.30 - 12.15 Developmental genes and human embryo quality Prof Robert G Edwards 12.15 - 12.45 Panel Discussion 12.45 - 14.00 Lunch Session II - 14.00 - 18.00 hrs Infertility Chairpersons - Prof Earl Dunn and Dr Hosnia Gargash 14.00 - 14.30 Ethical issues in reproductive medicine Prof Donald Evans 14.30 - 15.00 Unexplained infertility: how much should we investigate and how far shall we treat Prof Mohamed Aboulghar 15.00 - 15.30 Early Embryo Maternal Dialogue Prof Henning Beier 15.30 - 16.00 Panel Discussion   16.00 - 16.15 Coffee   16.15 - 18.00 Panel Discussion - Debate on Cloning of Humans Prof Robert Edwards, Prof Donald Evans Prof Mohamed Aboulghar and Prof Ian Craft 20.00 Dinner   OCTOBER 23 - WEDNESDAY Session III 9.00 - 12.45 hrs Gene Therapy of Inherited Disorders Chairpersons - Dr Tahir Rizvi and Dr Yousef M Abdulrazzaq 9.00 - 9.40 Gene therapy of inherited and acquired Diseases. Prof W French Anderson 9.40 - 10.20 Gene therapy for adenosine deaminase deficiency from the first clinical trial to the present results: what have we learned? Prof Fabio Candotti 10.20 - 10.50 Coffee   10.50 - 11.30 Successful treatment of human X-SCID by somatic gene therapy Prof Adrian Thrasher 11.30 - 12.10 Title Dr Claudio Bordignon 12.10 - 12.45 Panel Discussion   12.45 - 14.00 Lunch   Session IV 14.00 - 18.30hrs Pathogenesis And Therapy Of Autoimmune Disorders Chairpersons - Prof Miodrag Lukic and Prof George Carruthers 14.00 - 14.45 The role of IL-15 and IL-18 in inflammatory synovitis Prof F Y Liew 14.45 - 15.30 Pathogenesis and therapy of autoimmune diabetes Prof Ake Lernmark 15.30 - 16.00 Panel Discussion   16.00 - 16.30 Coffee   16.30 - 17.15 Multiple pathways lead to virus-induced autoimmune disease-roles for molecular mimicry and epitope spreading. Prof Stephen D Miller 17.15 - 18.00 Use of regulatory T cells (Tregs) and antigen presenting cells (APCs) to prevent type 1 diabetes (T1D) Dr Matthias von Herrath 18.00 - 18.30 Panel Discussion   20.00 Dinner   OCTOBER 24 - THURSDAY Session V 9.00 - 13.00 hrs Apoptosis in Disease and Health Chairpersons - Dr Hussain Al Rahma and Dr Aiman Saleh 9.00 - 9.45 Programmed cell death in animal development Prof Martin Raff 9.45 - 10.30 Mitochondria and the control of apoptosis Prof Douglas Green 10.30 - 10.45 Coffee   10.45 - 11.30 The regulation of drug-induced apoptosis in cancer cells Prof Caroline Dive 11.30 - 12.15 Apoptosis: death for health Prof Andrew Wylie 12.15 - 13.00 Panel Discussion   13.00 - 14.00 Lunch   Session VI 14.00 - 15.00 hrs Emirates Medical Journal Poster Presentation Chairpersons - Prof R Padmanabhan and Dr Badriya Al Awar 14.00 - 14.25 Effects of hyperosmotic shrinking on ventricular myocyte shortening and intracellular Ca2+ in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats. Dr Frank C Howarth 14.25 - 14.45 Investigation into the nutrient requirement of the human embryo; Successful formulation and clinical trial of a novel routine - free embryo culture medium Dr Jaffar Ali 14.45 - 15.00 Coffee   Session VII - 15.00 - 16.00 hrs Hamdan Award to Support Medical Research in the UAE Grant holders - 1999-2000 Poster presentation Chairpersons - Prof A H Dawodu and Dr Salim Bastaki 15.00 - 15.05 Contractile dysfunction in diabetic cardiomyopathy Dr F.C.Howarth 15.05 - 15.10 Studies on teratogenic mechanism of vigabatrin Prof R Padmanabhan 15.10 - 15.15 Epidemiological study of development and behavioral disorders in 3-year-old children in UAE. Dr Valsamma Eapen 15.15 - 15.20 Confidential inquiries into maternal mortality and morbidity in UAE. Dr Saad Ghazal Aswad 15.20 - 15.25 Molecular epidemiology and pathogenesis of myco-bacterial infections in UAE Dr Senarth Dissanayake 15.25 - 15.30 The role transforming growth factor beta and interleukins in the modulation of Airway inflammation in atopic and non-atopic asthma in UAE nationals with asthma. Dr Jose Joseph 15.30 - 15.35 The clinical and experimental study of physiology and pathophysiology of obesity in the UAE (3 projects combined). Dr Edward O Adeyemi 15.35 - 15.40 Immunopathogenesis of asthma in the UAE. Dr Laila O Abdel Wareth 15.40 - 15.45 Impact of asthma mini-clinics on the care of children with asthma Dr Tony Revel 15.45 - 15.50 The prevalence of psychiatric disorders in the elderly population in the UAE. Dr Rafia Ghubash 15.50 - 16.30 Coffee   16.30 - 17.30 Closing Ceremony

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