DOPAMINET Summer School - Trieste 19-20 July 2012

[Nicola DORIGO SALAMON]

The FP7 DOPAMINET Consortium is organizing the 2012 DOPAMINET Summer School on 19-20 July 2012 in Trieste at SISSA - International School for Advanced Studies. The theme and focus of the Summer School will be on dopaminergic neurons, Alzheimer and Parkinson's disease. 

The Summer School goals are: 
• to inspire and train early stage researchers active in the brain-related disease and aging area taking the advantage of intensive training on new and emerging subjects, and learning about tomorrow’s avenues of opportunity. 
• to raise awareness of the recent research advances in the field of dopaminergic neurons and technologies for improving therapeutically approaches to fight Alzheimer and Parkinson Diseases. 
• to promote greater participation in international dialogue and exchange and, by doing so, to strengthen alliance with patients and care-takers organizations and Policy Makers committed in shaping evidence based policies on active and healthy aging locally, nationally and internationally. 

The summer school is conceived as a focused and multi-disciplinary networking platform to access the highest level of expertise from leaders in the neurobiology field. The Summer School includes a plenary lecture from Prof. Moussa B.H. Youdim on “Why multi-target neurorestorative drugs for Parkinson’s disease, an alternative to stem cell therapy”. A round-table with Health Policy Makers and stakeholders like industries and patient organizations is also planned. 

Invited speakers: 
- Vania Broccoli, (Ospedale San Raffaele, Italy) 
- David Gomez Cabrero, (YouHealth AB, Sweden) 
- Piero Carninci, (Riken Research, Japan) 
- Wolfgang Driever, (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany) 
- Stefano Gustincich, (SISSA - International School for Advanced Studies, Italy) 
- Boris Lenhard, (Imperial College London, United Kingdom) 
- Urban Liebel, (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) 
- Antonello Mallamacci, (SISSA - International School for Advanced Studies, Italy) 
- Ferenc Müller, (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom) 
- Moussa B.H. Youdim, (Technion-Rappaport Family Faculty of Medicine, Israel) 
- Alain Prochiantz, (College de France, France) 
- Remo Sanges, (Stazione Zoologica A. Dorhn, Italy) 
- Antonio Simeone, (CEINGE Biotecnologie Avanzate / IGB - Istituto di Genetica e Biofisica del CNR, Italy) 
- Elia Stupka, (San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Italy) 
- Maria Trinidad Herrero, (University of Murcia, Spain) 
- Wolfgang Wurst, (Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany) 

Registrations are open. The programme of the event will be published soon at http://www.dopaminet.eu/page.php?37 
We look forward to meet you in Trieste. 

Kind regards 
Nicola Dorigo Salamon 












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