We are pleased to announce the plans for the 8th Hershey Conference on Developmental Brain Injury. The conference will be held in a beautiful country setting at a secluded site but still in close proximity to Heathrow and reachable by the London public transport system. The theme of the meeting will focus on Inflammation during fetal and neonatal life and its consequences not only during childhood but also in adults. This is timely as it is now appreciated that perinatal inflammation has far-reaching effects on the immature brain from immediate cell death to involvement in the delayed reparative processes so important for recovery of connectivity and functionality. Data indicate that modulation of these immuno-inflammatory events may be key to the development of the next generation of pharmacological or cell-based neuroprotective interventions hopefully to be applied days or even weeks after the insult. In keeping with this theme, several of our invited speakers are leaders in the field of fundamental immunological mechanisms.
The pros and cons of currently used animal models of brain injury and their relevance for understanding the pathophysiology of human disease will also be discussed. There is a rapid development in the understanding of molecular and cellular mechanisms of brain injury and the meeting will bring an update on these matters and their importance for finding new strategies for interventions. Additional topics will include advances in the use of stem cell therapies as well as recent development of brain imaging techniques applied in human fetuses and neonates.
We invite you to attend the 8th Hershey Conference on Developmental Brain Injury in London June 5-8, 2012 ! Please remember that the number of participants is maximized to 110 so please register well in advance of the deadline: April 1, 2012.
Henrik Hagberg Susan J. Vannucci
Professor in Perinatal Medicine Research Professor of Neuroscience in
Imperial College London, UK and Pediatrics/Newborn Medicine
Goteborg University, Sweden Weill Medical College of Cornell University
New York, NY USA
Agneta Cedefors-Blom
Symposium coordinator
Perinatal Center
Sahlgrenska University Hospital East
Goteborg, Sweden
Organizing Committee
Henrik Hagberg, MD, PhD, Professor, Imperial College, London, UK and Sahlgrenska Academy, Gothenburg University, Sweden
Susan J. Vannucci PhD, Professor, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA
Sidhartha Tan MD, Clinical Professor, North Shore University Health System and University of Chicago, IL, USA
Donna M. Ferriero, MD, PhD, Professor, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
Pierre Gressens, MD, PhD, Professor, Inserm-Paris 7 University & PremUP, Paris, France, Imperial College, London, UK.
Steven W. Levison, PhD, Professor, UMDNJ-Newark, NJ, USA
Mary Rutherford, MD, PhD, Professor, Imperial College, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK
Laia Acarin, PhD, Professor, Universitat Autonoma, Barcelona, Spain
Carina Mallard, PhD, Professor, Sahlgrenska Academy, Gothenburg University, Sweden
Conference coordinator
Agneta Cedefors-Blom, Perinatal Center, Sahlgrenska University Hospital/East, Gothenburg, Sweden
Speakers
Annemieke Kavelaars, Dr, Associate Prof, University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Nehterlands
Bertrand Joseph, PhD, Associate Prof, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Carol Colton, PhD, Professor, Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, Durham, USA
Fernando Gonzalez, MD, Assistant Professor, University of California, San Fransicso, USA
Professor Flora Vaccarino, MD, Professor, Yale Child Study Center, New Haven, USA
Helen Stolp, Dr, Postdoctoral Research Assistant, University of Oxford, UK
Hugh Perry, Professor, University of Southampton, UK
Joakim Ek, PhD, Research Fellow, Gothenburg University, Sweden
Laia Acarin, PhD, Professsor, Universitat Autonoma Barcelona, Spain
Marianne Thoresen MD, PhD, Professor, University of Bristol, UK
Mary Rutherford, MD, PhD, Professor, Imperial College, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK
Nikki Robertson, Dr, University College London, UK
Olga Tymofiyeva, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Serena Counsell, Dr, Imperial College, London, UK
Sidhartha Tan, MD, Clinical Professor, North Shore University Health System and University of Chicago, IL, USA
Urs Meyer, Dr, Professor, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zürich, Switzerland
Xiaoyang Wang, MD, PhD, Assistant professor, Gothenburg University, Sweden
Zena Vexler, PhD, Professor, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Zoltan Molnar, MD, PhD, Professor, University of Oxford, UK
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