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The Children's Tumor Foundation will host the world's largest conference on neurofibromatosis (NF) June 9-12 in New Orleans, LA. The Children's Tumor Foundation's annual NF Conference is the premier event in the neurofibromatosis research and clinical calendar. Founded over twenty years ago, the NF Conference draws clinicians and researchers from around the world to present the latest developments in NF research and clinical care. The Conference includes high-profile keynote speakers from related disciplines, such as cancer and neuroscience, serving to stimulate thought and build connections between NF and other disorders.
The co-chairs for the 2012 NF Conference are Helen Morrison, Ph.D. of the Leibniz Institute for Age Research in Germany and Brigitte Widemann, MD of the National Cancer Institute.
Other notable presenters include Luis Parada, Ph.D. of the University of Texas Southwestern, Rhona Mirsky, Ph.D. of University College London, Gregory Reaman, MD of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and Silvia Cappello, Ph.D. of Helmholtz Zentrum München German Research and Jan Tuckermann of the Leibniz Institute for Age Research in Germany.
Seminar topics range from 'Deciphering the Signaling Pathways of NF2', to 'An Update on the Genetics of Schwannomatosis and NF1 Mouse Models & Preclinical Study Development'.
The Neurofibromatosis (NF) Conference has been organized by the Children’s Tumor Foundation (CTF) annually since 1985. With its roots in a small workshop-style gathering of a group called the ‘NF Consortium’ dedicated to cloning the genes underlying the Neurofibromatoses, the NF Conference has grown to a gathering of six hundred NF researchers and clinicians from around the world. This meeting is recognized as the premier annual gathering of international NF researchers and physicians. Major contributors to this growth are the significant advances made in NF research in recent years and, particularly, recent advances into clinical trials and drug therapy development. In addition, state-of-the-art genomic approaches have identified mutations in the NF genes as contributors to numerous types of sporadic cancers, signaling pathways including the Hippo and Ras cascades are implicated in NF, and it is now recognized that mutations in genes along the Ras pathway result in a set of disorders such as Noonan, LEOPARD cardio-facio-cutaneous and Legius syndromes, including NF1, called the “Rasopathies”. Each syndrome exhibits unique phenotypic features, however, since they all cause dysregulation of the Ras/MAPK pathway, there are numerous overlapping phenotypic features between the syndromes, including characteristic facial features, cardiac defects, cutaneous abnormalities, accelerated ageing, neurocognitive delay and a predisposition to malignancies.
Traditionally a forum for research information exchange and consensus building, in recent years the NF Conference is also the principal international forum for reporting on the neurofibromatosis preclinical therapeutic pipeline and the expanding arena of neurofibromatosis clinical trials.
For more information, please visit the Conference website (http://www.cvent.com/events/2012-nf-conference/event-summary-e28bfaac1dc943cb983...).
Registration and abstract submission is now open!
Information on participating / attending:
The NF Conference is not intended for and not open to laypersons and the public. The Conference is intended for the scientific and clinical community by invitation. Blogs and videos from the 2012 NF Conference are publicly available on the Conference website.
Date:
06/09/2012 - 06/12/2012
Registration deadline:
05/31/2012
Event venue:
The Hilton New Orleans Riverside
Two Poydras Street
New Orleans, Louisiana 70130
Louisiana 70130 New Orleans
United States of America
Target group:
Scientists and scholars
Relevance:
international
Subject areas:
Biology, Chemistry, Medicine, Nutrition / healthcare / nursing
Types of events:
Conference / symposium / (annual) conference
Entry:
04/25/2012
Sender/author:
Dr. Kerstin Wagner
Department:
Forschungskoordinator
Event is free:
no
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event39536
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