ME/CFS Society of WA: International ME/CFS Conference

New Horizons 2008 - International Conference on ME/CFS Biomedical Research

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Hosted and sponsored jointly by ME Research UK, and the Irish ME Trust (http://www.imet.ie/), the New Horizons 2008: International Conference on ME/CFS Biomedical Research will take place on Tuesday 6th May 2008 at the Wellcome Trust Conference Centre (http://www.wtconference.org/), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK, which can cater for up to 300 delegates and is within easy reach of Cambridge, the M11 and London Stansted Airport.

Download location maps here (pdf 1,197 KB).
http://www.meresearch.org.uk/ConferenceCentreMaps.pdf

Building on the success of last year's New Horizons conference held at the Edinburgh Conference Centre, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh (read the report here (http://www.meresearch.org.uk/archive/newhorizons.html), we hope that the day will be of interest to a wide range of professionals, patients and observers. As ME/CFS biomedical research is very varied, spanning many scientific disciplines and involving a wide range of healthcare professionals, this research conference will provide the opportunity for researchers and healthcare professionals within ME/CFS to present their latest work, share ideas and identify key challenges for the future.

The full day's programme will consist mainly of invited keynote lectures, with poster presentions describing specific studies. At present, the outline for the day includes presentations by:

* Dr Vance Spence (Chairman, ME Research UK)

* Prof. Nancy Klimas (University of Miami School of Medicine, Florida, USA)

* Dr Stephen Graves (Australian Rickettsial Reference Laboratory, NSW, Australia)

* Dr Gavin Spickett (Consultant Clinical Immunologist and Clinical Champion for the Northern
Clinical Network Co-ordinating Centre (CFS/ME) Service, Newcastle Primary Care Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne)

* Dr Julia Newton (Senior Lecturer, Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University)

* Prof. Birgitta Evengard (Department of Infectious Diseases, UmeD University, Sweden)

* Dr Jonathan Kerr (Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, St George's University of
London)

* Dr Byron Hyde (Nightingale Research Foundation, Ottawa, Canada)

* Dr Faisel Khan (Vascular and Inflammatory Diseases Research Unit, University Department of
Medicine, Dundee)

* Dr Derek Enlander (Mount Sinai Medical School and New York ME/CFS Center, New York, USA)

* Dr Dan Peterson (Whittemore Peterson Institute for Neuro-Immune Disease, University of Nevada School of Medicine, USA)

Download the full conference agenda (pdf 144 KB). http://www.meresearch.org.uk/ConferenceAgenda.pdf