INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR MEDICINE
Programme
10 th Annual Meeting
OF
The Institute OF
Molecular Medicine
Trinity Centre for Health
Sciences
at
St. James’s Hospital
9 t h & 10 t h
November 2007
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INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR MEDICINE
Programme
DAY 1
Friday 9th November
8.30 am
Registration
SESSION I
Chairs: Prof Michael Gill, Head of Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Molecular
Medicine, TCD and SJH & Dr David Lloyd, Dean of Research, TCD
9.00 am
Opening of Meeting & 5th Institute of Molecular Medicine Lecture
Prof Dermot Kelleher, Director of Institute of Molecular Medicine, Head of
Department of Clinical Medicine, Head of School of Medicine, TCD and SJH
“Developing Translational Medicine at an University Teaching Hospital”
9.45 am
Prof Frank Gannon
Director General, Science Foundation Ireland
“Research with Consequences”
10.30 am
Coffee Break
SESSION II
Chairs: Prof Orla Sheils, Department of Histopathology, Institute of Molecular
Medicine, TCD & Dr Seamus Donnelly, Director of Academic Medicine &
Consultant Physician, Conway Institute, UCD & St Vincent’s University Hospital
11.00 am
Prof Bruce Torbett
Head of Molecular and Cellular Therapy, Scripps Cancer Centre & Departments of
Experimental and Molecular Medicine and Immunology, Scripps Research Institute
California, USA
“Blocking HIV-1 Entry: Can the Door be Closed Using Gene Delivery?”
11.45 pm
Prof Martyn Goulding
Molecular Neurobiology, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, California, USA
“From Genes to Behaviour: Dissecting the Neural Circuits that Control
Walking”
12.30 pm
LUNCH
INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR MEDICINE
Programme
SESSION III
Chairs: Prof Alan Irvine, Consultant Dermatologist, Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick
Children/SJH and Institute of Molecular Medicine, TCD & Prof Hilary Humphreys,
Head of Microbiology, RCSI and Beaumont Hospital
13.45 pm
Prof Ajit Lalvani
Chair in Infectious Diseases, National Heart and Lung Institute, Faculty of Medicine,
Imperial College London, UK
“Diagnosing Tuberculosis Infection in the 21st century: New Tools to Tackle an
Old Enemy”
14.30 pm
Prof Siamon Gordon
Prof of Cellular Pathology, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of
Oxford, UK
“Macrophages – The Two Edged Sword”
15.15 pm
Prof Hazel Dockrell
Prof of Immunology and Head, Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases,
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
“Towards Clinical Trials of New TB Vaccines: The BCG Story”
16.00 pm
Coffee Break
16.30 pm
Prof Colm O’Morain
Chair of Medicine, Clinical Medicine & Dean of Faculty of Health Sciences, TCD
“Can GI Cancer be Prevented?”
SESSION IV
Chair: Prof Dermot Kelleher, Director of Institute of Molecular Medicine, Head of
Department of Clinical Medicine, Head of School of Medicine, TCD and SJH
Introduction: Prof Shaun McCann, Prof of Academic Medicine and Head of
Haematology, Institute of Molecular Medicine TCD and SJH
17.15 pm
State of the Art Lecture
Prof Lucio Luzzatto
Scientific Director, Institute Toscano Tumori, Florence, Italy
“From Bedside to Bench”
18.00 pm
POSTER COMPETITION AWARDS
Judges: Prof Martyn Goulding, Prof Hazel Dockrell & Dr David Lloyd
18.15 pm
RECEPTION
INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR MEDICINE
Programme
DAY 2
Saturday 10th November
8.30 am
Registration
SESSION V
Chairs: Prof Mark Lawler, Prof of Molecular Medicine, Institute of Molecular
Medicine, School of Medicine, TCD and SJH & Prof Cliona O’Farrelly, Chair in
Comparative Immunology, Department of Biochemistry, TCD
9.00 am
Dr James O’Donnell
Senior Lecturer, Institute of Molecular Medicine, TCD and Consultant
Haematologist, SJH
“Cross-talk Between Cancer Cell Biology and Coagulation Activation – Clinical
Relevance and Novel Therapeutic Strategies”
9.45 am
Prof Frank Barry
Professor of Cellular Therapy, Scientific Director, Regenerative Medicine Institute,
National University of Ireland, Galway
“Stem Cells in Tissue Repair”
10.30 am
Dr Joe Keane
Director of Research, School of Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine, TCD and
SJH
“One New Lung Cancer Patient Everyday: Making a Better Test”
11.15 am
Coffee Break
SESSION VI
Chairs: Prof Shaun McCann, Prof of Academic Medicine and Head of Haematology,
Institute of Molecular Medicine TCD and SJH & Prof Thomas Cotter, Prof of
Biochemistry, University College Cork
11.45 am
Dr Paul Browne
Chairman, St James’s Hospital Medical Board and Consultant Haematologist, SJH
“Paroxysmal Nocturnal Haemoglobinuria: New Ideas about an Old Disease”
12.30 pm
8th Annual Durkan Lecture
Prof Willem Fibbe
President, European Hematology Association, Department of Immunohematology &
Bloodtransfusion, Leiden University Medical Centre, Netherlands
“MSC in the Treatment & Prevention of Graft Versus Host Disease Following
Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation”
1.15 pm
End of Meeting