TARGETING THE LUNG AND
INFLAMMATION USING siRNA AND
THERAPEUTIC PROTEINS
Joint BALR, BIRAs & BPS Spring meeting
6-7 April 2006
Girton College, Cambridge, England
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Organisers: Dr Mark Lindsay and Dr Sterghios
Moschos
Thursday 6th April
9.45 Introduction (Dr. M. Lindsay, Imperial College, London, UK)
Acute Lung Injury/sepsis
10.10
Overview on the causes and treatment of acute lung
injury/sepsis – Prof Jane Mitchell (Imperial College, UK)
10.50
Coffee
11.10
siRNA and the treatment of acute lung injury/sepsis –
Dr Joanne Lomas-Neira (Brown University, Providence, USA)
11.50
Aerosilised delivery to the lung and circulation – Prof.
Chrisopher O’Callagham (University of Leicester, UK)
12.30
Lunch
Asthma and COPD
13.30
Overview on the causes and treatment of asthma and
COPD – Prof Maria Belvisi (Imperial College, UK)
BIRAs
British Inflammation
Research Association
14.10
TAT mediated delivery of therapeutic proteins in
mouse models of asthma – Dr X Zhu (University of Chicago, USA)
14.50
Systemic and lung siRNA delivery in vivo (Dr Tony De
Fougerolles, Alnylam, Boston, USA)
15.30
Coffee
15.50
Development of an antibody drug candidate for the
treatment of asthma (Dr Ian Anderson, Cambridge Antibody
Technology, UK)
16.30
siRNA as a therapeutic approach to the treatment of
systemic viral infection and lung inflammation (Dr Ivan Richards,
Sirna, Colorado, USA)
17.10
Finish
19.00
Reception and Dinner
Friday 7th April
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NAME:
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Viral Infection and lung disease
9.30
Overview on viral infection and lung disease
(Prof Sebastian Johnston, Imperial College, UK)
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10.10
siRNA and the treatment of respiratory viral
infections (Prof Sailen Barik, University of Southern
Alabama, USA)
Registration Fee (includes coffee, lunch, tea & Conference Dinner)
BALR/BIRA/BPS Members
£155
Non-members
£190
10.50
Students (please attach credentials)
£120
11.10
Use of siRNA for the treatment of SARS in
Rhesus monkeys (Dr Patrick Lu – Intradigm, Rockville, USA)
College Accommodation (including breakfast)
Wednesday Night
£42
11.50
Role of miRNA in apoptosis and cell proliferation
(Dr Lance Ford, Ambion, Texas, USA)
Thursday Night
£42
12.30
Coffee
Lunch
Gene Therapy
13.30
Non-viral approaches to the treatment of
cystic fibrosis – Prof Eric Alton (Dept of Gene Therapy,
Imperial College, UK)
14.10
Role of miRNA in lung inflammation - Dr
Sterghios Moschos (Imperial College, London)
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Conference Dinner (Thursday Night – Girton College)
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14.40
Electroporation for delivery of DNA and siRNA
into whole lungs (Dr A Gazhdar, University of Bern,
Switzerland)
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15.10
Please return completed form by 24th March, 2006 to Dr Mark Lindsay, Thoracic Medicine,
National Heart and Lung Institute, Dovehouse Street, London, SW3 6LY
Email: m.lindsay@imperial.ac.uk
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Tel :
Fax:
020 7352 8121 ext 3061 (international + 44 (0) 351 8121 ext 3061)
020 7351 8126 (international + 44 (0) 351 8126)