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DAY 1 Wednesday 16th August 2017 12:30 Registration and lunch
13:50 Welcome. Jeff Pollard, Director of the MRC Centre for Reproductive Health, Murray Mitchell, President Elect, Society for Reproductive Investigation
ENDOMETRIOSIS Chair – Philippa Saunders, University of Edinburgh 14:00 Endometriosis: An Inflammatory Paradigm. Robert Taylor,
Professor of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Wake Forest University, North Carolina
14:30 Endometriosis as wounds undergoing repeated tissue injury and repair: new synthesis and clinical implications. Sun-Wei Guo, OB/GYN Hospital, Fudan University, China.
15:00 Free communication 1 15:15 Free communication 2 15:30 Free communication 3
15:45 Innovative ways to relieve women from the burden of endometriosis. Thomas Zollner, Head of Gynaecological Therapies Research, Bayer HealthCare, Germany
16:15 Coffee
PLENARY LECTURE Chair - Sarah Stock, University of Edinburgh 16:45 How data science can help us improve reproductive health.
Chris Ponting, MRC Human Genetics Unit, University of Edinburgh
17:45 RECEPTION AND POSTERS
19:30 End
Scientific Symposium Targeting inflammation to improve reproductive health across the lifecourse
In collaboration with the Society for Reproductive Investigation and the MRC Centre for Reproductive Health
PROGRAMME
Wednesday 16th, Thursday 17th & Friday 18th August 2017
John McIntyre Conference Centre, Edinburgh EH16 5AY
Scientific Symposium Targeting inflammation to improve reproductive health across the lifecourse
DAY 2 Thursday 17th August 2017 PRETERM LABOUR / MISCARRIAGE / IMPLANTATION Chair - Jane Norman, University of Edinburgh 08:30 Inflammation and Preterm Birth.
Phillip Bennett, Professor of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Imperial College, London
09:00 Ex-vivo Uterine Environment Therapy - An Experimental Treatment Strategy for Extremely Preterm Infants. Yuichiro Miura, Department of Pediatrics, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine
09:30 Free communication 4 09:45 Free communication 5 10:00 Free communication 6
10:15 Targeting inflammation in implantation disorders. Eva Dimitriadis, NHMRC Senior Research Fellow, Head, Embryo Implantation Laboratory, Hudson Institute Melbourne
10:45 Coffee
11:15 Advancing Drug Discovery and Development through Phenotypic Screening. Neil Carragher, Principal Investigator Drug Discovery, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh
11:45 Zebra fish as an experimental paradigm to study how inflammation and the immune system drives successful tissue repair. Catherina Becker, Professor of Neural Development and Regeneration, Director, Centre for Neuroregeneration, University of Edinburgh
12:15 Lunch with posters
HEAVY MENSTRUAL BLEEDING/FIBROIDS Chair - Hilary Critchley, University of Edinburgh 14:00 Uterine Fibroids 2017.
Elizabeth Stewart, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Surgery, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
14:30 Enhancing the resolution of inflammation as a potential therapeutic target in the reproductive system. Adriano Rossi, MRC Centre for Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh
15:00 Free communication 7 15:15 Free communication 8 15:30 Free communication 9
15:45 Drug development in endometriosis: not just a matter of good science. Patrick Groothuis, Principal Scientist, Pharmacology Preclinical Department, Synthon Biopharmaceuticals B.V. Nijmegen.
16:15 Coffee
PLENARY LECTURE Chair – Fiona Denison, University of Edinburgh 16:45 Predicting and preventing pregnancy complications. Gordon Smith, Head of Department Obstetrics & Gynaecology, University of Cambridge
17:45 Close
Scientific Symposium Targeting inflammation to improve reproductive health across the lifecourse
DAY 3 Friday 18th August 2017 REPRODUCTIVE CANCER Chair - Margaret Frame, University of Edinburgh 08:30 Improving outcomes in women with ovarian cancer.
Charlie Gourlay, Edinburgh Cancer Research Centre, University of Edinburgh
09:00 DigiPico: A new language to interrogate the tumour-host interaction of microscopic residual disease. Ahmed Ahmed, Weatherhall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford
09:30 Free communication 10 09:45 Free communication 11 10:00 Free communication 12
10:15 Macrophages: therapeutic targets and diagnostics in women’s cancers.
Jeffrey Pollard, Director, MRC Centre for Reproductive Health, University of Edinburgh
10:45 Coffee
PLENARY LECTURE Chair – Andrew Horne, University of Edinburgh
11:25 Drug screening pipeline to identify treatments for preeclampsia. Stephen Tong, Specialist Obstetrician, Mercy Hospital, Melbourne
PUBLIC ENGAGMENT EVENT WITH SANDWICH LUNCH Chair – Douglas Gibson, University of Edinburgh 12:25 Cervical cancer and how to prevent it - a safari from Scotland to Malawi.
Heather Cubie and Sarah Howie, University of Edinburgh
14:00 Close
Scientific Symposium Targeting inflammation to improve reproductive health across the lifecourse
REGISTRATION
NOW OPEN
Early Bird Registration until 1st July 2017
Registration and accommodation. Register for the event to book accommodation for the SRI MRC-CRH Symposium. Take advantage of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 4 - 28 August, 2017. To take advantage of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival over the weekend, book additional accommodation with Edinburgh First. Quoting promotion code: CONF17, you will receive 15% off accommodation at Masson House and Salisbury Green Hotel at Pollock Halls. Payment is taken at time of booking. Visit http://www.book.accom.ed.ac.uk/ for booking information.
Early Bird Full Delegate
Registration: £330.00
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Early Bird Trainee
Registration: £275.00
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Undergraduate
Registration: £200.00
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Special registration rate
of £100 awarded to the
top 25 Undergraduate
/MSc abstracts.
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After 1st July 2017 Full
Delegate Registration:
£385.00
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Trainee Registration:
£330.00
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