The 45th Annual Meeting of the European Association or the Study of Diabetes
Vienna, Austria
30 September - 2 October
Membership of the EASD is individual, and the association numbers over 6,000 scientists, physicians, laboratory workers, nurses and students who are engaged in diabetes and related subjects, all over the world.
The scientific programme for this autumn’s meeting is now available online, and abstracts accepted for presentation can be accessed at www.easd.org. In addition, original webcasts of the major lectures will become available at the same website soon after the event.
During the Rising Star Symposium, to be presented by Chairman Thomas R Pieber, Head of the Local Organising Committee, G Fadini (Cinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Padova, Italy) will speak on endothelial progenitor cells in diabetes and its complications; V A Gault (School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Ulster, Coleraine, Ireland) will present established and emerging actions of GIP: possible therapeutic implications for diabetes including cognitive function; C Herder (Institute for Clinical Diabetology, German Diabetes Centre, Dusseldorf, Germany) will speak on pro- and anti-inflammatory immune mediators in the development of type 2 diabetes, and V Lyssenko (Clinical Sciences, Diabetes and Endocrinology, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden) will discuss how genetics unravels novel pathways in the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes.
01.09.2009
