{"id":460,"date":"2005-02-18T14:54:59","date_gmt":"2005-02-18T13:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/?p=460"},"modified":"2025-10-17T15:41:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T13:41:28","slug":"semmelweis-symposium-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/hirek\/2005\/02\/18\/semmelweis-symposium-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Semmelweis Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Inflammatory mechanisms in atherosclerosis &#8211; A critical appraisal<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>To be held in Budapest,\u00a0<\/em>November 3-4, 2005<\/p>\n<p><strong>Invitation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Atherosclerosis is an inflammatory disease with multifactorial etiology. In the last years a large body of evidence accumulated supporting this statement. More and more information indicates that inflammatory reactions are present from the very early stages of atherosclerosis till the rupture of a plaque. This process is influenced by several environmental (infections, smoking, etc.) and genetic factors. However, there are quite a lot of open questions or unconvinced points in this large and complex picture, such us the trigger of inflammation in the vessel wall, the role of infections in the development of atherosclerosis, interactions between risk factors and inflammation, and whether inflammatory mediators (i.e. C-reactive protein, complement, etc.) are passive markers or active participants in the immuno-inflammatory mechanisms in atherogenesis.<\/p>\n<p>Although the inflammatory nature of atherosclerosis is getting broadly accepted in the general scientific community, there is a room for discussion on specific topics in this area. We plan to organize a scientific symposium to provide a possibility for this discussion on the above. The aim of the meeting would be to highlight up-to-date information and to put leading researchers of the area in touch with each other and generate fruitful discussion on open or controversial topics.<\/p>\n<p>Here, we would like to invite immunologists, clinicians and researchers and students for the upcoming Semmelweis Symposium to be held in Budapest between 3-4<sup>th<\/sup> of November, 2005. The title of the symposium is: <em>Semmelweis Symposium: Inflammatory mechanisms in atherosclerosis &#8211; A critical appraisal<\/em>. The Semmelweis Symposium is an annual international activity at the Semmelweis University. In 2005 the topic of the symposium will be focused on the role of inflammation in atherosclerosis. The symposium will be supported by EC supported \u201cATHERNET\u201d project (www.athernet.hu). The following organizations will also support the conference: Hungarian Society for Immunology, Hungarian Society for Atherosclerosis.<\/p>\n<p>There will be a limited (invitation-based) number of <strong>oral presentations<\/strong>; you have the opportunity to present your results as <strong>free poster<\/strong>. Four abstracts will be selected for short-talks (1\/topic).<\/p>\n<p>There is <strong>early registration and abstract submission<\/strong>, with the <strong>deadline of June, 1<\/strong>. Abstracts submitted till this deadline will be published in official congress issue of Molecular Immunology. <strong>Late submission<\/strong> and registration will be possible till <strong>30<sup>th<\/sup> of September<\/strong>, these abstracts will be printed only in the program book of the conference.<\/p>\n<p><em>The tentative topics of the Symposium are:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Role of inflammation in atherosclerosis<\/li>\n<li>Role of infection and autoimmunity in atherosclerosis<\/li>\n<li>Role of genetic factors behind inflammatory mechanisms in atherosclerosis<\/li>\n<li>Role of innate immunity in atherogenesis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Confirmed invited speakers are: <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>G\u00e9rard<\/strong> <strong>Arlaud<\/strong> (Grenoble): <br \/>\n <em>Modified low density lipoproteins differentially bind and activate the C1 complex of complement<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sucharit Bhakdi<\/strong> (Mainz): <em>Pathogenesis of atherosclerosis: the Mainz hypothesis<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Stefan Blankenberg<\/strong> (Mainz): <em>Inflammation and atherosclerosis: The role of \u00a0 genetic diversity and intermediate phenotpyes<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Michael Carrol<\/strong> (Boston):<\/p>\n<p><em>Innate Autoimmunity: Inflammatory response against stress induced self-ligands<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mohamed R. Daha<\/strong> (Leiden): <br \/>\n <em>Role of complement in inflammation processes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gordon Duff<\/strong> (Sheffield):<br \/>\n <em>Genetic variation at the Interleukin-1 locus as a risk factor for atherosclerosis and clinical events<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>George F\u00fcst<\/strong> (Budapest): <br \/>\n <em>Immunogenetic factors in atherosclerosis<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Peter Garred<\/strong> (Copenhagen): Title pending<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vilmundur Gu\u00f0nason<\/strong> (Rejkyavik): <em>Inflammatory markers in the prospective Reykjavik study<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mikko Hurme<\/strong> (Tampere): <br \/>\n <em>Genetic control of inflammatory cell\/T cell interactions<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Graham A. Pockley<\/strong> (Sheffield): <br \/>\n <em>Circulating heat shock proteins and atherosclerosis<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Zolt\u00e1n Proh\u00e1szka<\/strong> (Budapest): <br \/>\n <em>Regulation of anti-heat shock protein antibody levels in health and disease<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gerd Schmitz<\/strong> (Regensburg): <em>Genetic factors affecting macrophage function in atherosclerosis<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Georg Wick<\/strong> (Innsbruck): <em>Atherosclerosis: Avoid stress now-worry about cholesterol later<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Scientific Advisory Board:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Organizing Committee<\/em><\/p>\n<p>G\u00e9rard Arlaud (Grenoble)\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Cerven\u00e1k (secretary)<br \/>\nMohamed R. Daha (Leiden)\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Imre Kacskovics<br \/>\nGeorge F\u00fcst (Budapest)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Istv\u00e1n Kar\u00e1di<br \/>\nPeter Garred (Copenhagen)\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Gy\u00f6rgy Parragh<br \/>\nMikko Hurme (Tampere)\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Zolt\u00e1n Proh\u00e1szka (chairman)<br \/>\nZolt\u00e1n Proh\u00e1szka (Budapest)\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Romics<br \/>\nMahavir Singh (Braunschweig)\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Lajos Szoll\u00e1r<br \/>\nLilian Varga<\/p>\n<p><em>Congress venue:\u00a0<\/em><em>Thermal Hotel Helia****, Budapest<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Conference Secretariat:<\/em><\/strong><strong>Diamond Congress Ltd.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>H-1027 Budapest, F\u00f5 u. 68, Hungary<br \/>\n Phones: +36 1 214-7701, 214-7698, 225-0210<br \/>\n Fax: + 36 1 201-2680<\/p>\n<p><em>Scientific correspondence: <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Zolt\u00e1n Proh\u00e1szka, MD, PhD<\/p>\n<p>Chair of the Conference<\/p>\n<p>IIIrd Department of Medicine, Semmelweis University<br \/>\nH-1125 Budapest, Kutv\u00f6lgyi st. 4.<br \/>\nTel.: +361-2129351\/+361-3551122\/379<br \/>\nFAX: +361-2129351<br \/>\ne-mail: prohoz@kut.sote.hu<\/p>\n<p>We guarantee you special Hungarian hospitality and friendly milieu during the meeting. The scientific value of our symposium is based on the contribution of invited speakers and their high quality research work together with the discussion of the posters. We hope that you find the program of the Symposium interesting and we will be able to welcome you in November in Budapest!<\/p>\n<p>Yours, with best regards<\/p>\n<p>Zolt\u00e1n Proh\u00e1szka\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Budapest, 2005-02-18\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">For more information, please clikck here!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inflammatory mechanisms in atherosclerosis &#8211; A critical appraisal\u00a0 To be held in Budapest,\u00a0November 3-4, 2005 Invitation Atherosclerosis is an inflammatory disease with multifactorial etiology. In the last years a large body of evidence accumulated supporting this statement. More and more information indicates that inflammatory reactions are present from the very early stages of atherosclerosis till &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[157],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-semmelweis-vilag"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/hirek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/hirek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/hirek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/hirek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/hirek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/hirek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68852,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/hirek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions\/68852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/hirek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/hirek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/hirek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}