IMID Medical Journal

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The IMID UNIT of Campi Salentina is glad to announce the 6th edition of the scientific biennial, with the purpose of characterising and defining its own research and educational activities, together with several prestigious partners, on the wide spectrum of diseases of purely immune-toxic-metabolic etiology.
The 2010 meeting will be held in Lecce, march 4-6.
Issues like the great challenges of inflammation, cancerogenesis, allergy and autoimmunity are on top of the list of major topics.
No more acceptable scientific evidences reveal how the major inflammatory chronic diseases, and their progression, are actually influenced by the contribution of dynamic and noxious interactions of biological systems in the body, and also by environmental factors and diet.
Nowadays, most therapeutic treatments for these complex disorders involves mainly drugs aimed to stop symptoms, right after a diagnosis has been made, tipically, a DRG precodified diagnosis.
An appropriate, multi-disciplinary, in-depth examination on the nature of these complex pathologic interactions might provide new and shared evidences, which, in turn, will be propedeutic to important upto-date necessary therapy-specific protocols of prevention, diagnosis and, most of all, oriented to establish and neutralize the primary causes of diseases.
So, the final goal of this scientific event will be to try and assess the causes, to clarify the effects, to define treatments and to organize efficient and long-lasting prevention protocols, aimed to tackle chronic inflammatory disorders and their frightful progressions.

Scientific Committee
Co-chairmen: M. Minelli - A. Tursi - V. Di Rienzo - G. Patriarca - F. Musca
Meeting Organization
IMID Unit
Allergy and Clinical Immunology Service
Dept. of Internal Medicine “San Pio” Hospital
Campi Salentina (Lecce) – Italy
Tel. +39 0832 790375
Fax +39 0832 790375
E-mail: info@imidunit.net
www.imidproject.net

SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION
Current Major Topics

* Role of environmental factors in complex desorders
* Basic medical research, results of clinic trials, meta-analysis, report on documented cases and useful clinical indications on diagnosis and treatment of chronic inflammatory disorders and their progression
* Inflammation, autoimmunity, cancerogenesis caused by environmental factors: metals, particulate, secondary and reengineered nanoparticles
* Immune system modulation, aimed to prevention and to an efficient treatment of inflammation and its pathologic evolutions
* Inflammation and autoimmunity in gastro-intestinal tract due to primitive diet: the model for gluten sensitivity
* Genetics and molecular basis of Immune Mediated Inflammatory Disorders
* Ageing, inflammation and autoimmunity
* The role of clinical proteomics in immunology
* Farmacogenomics: diagnostics opportunities and practical applications
* Principles of pharmaeconomics
* Immune recognition and cancer
* Nanotechnology for cancer therapy
* Recent developments of immune therapy in anti-neoplastic applications
* Environmental medicine and dynamics of biological systems: interactions and dysfunctions in common chronic multifactorial diseases
* Analysis of oxidative damage and radical cellular homeostasis
* Analysis of genetic and epigenetic mechanisms involved in antioxidative function and in detoxification
* Neuroimmune toxicity in Multiple Environmental Hyperreactivity (MEY)
* Strategic role of nutrition in clinical practice: foods’ role in pathology and physiology
* Theoretical analysis of individual nutritional condition, therapeutic effects of nutritional treatment, dynamic evaluation of its possible deficiencies
* Chronic inflammatory disorders and immune-neuroendocrine network
* Immunology and biology of transplants

REGISTRATION (doctors and postgraduate students)
The deadline for early registration is the January, 16, 2010
Registration fees (Euro):
Registration fee                      Before 16st of January, 2010          After 16st of January 2010
Full partecipation                                      200                                           230
Postgraduate student                                 80                                            100
On day partecipation                                  70                                             85
Social Dinner                                                                      60

REGISTRATION (biologists, biotechnologists, nutritionists, technicians, professional nurses)
The deadline for early registration is the January, 16, 2010
Registration fees (Euro):
Registration fee                      Before 16st of January, 2010         After 16st of January 2010
Full partecipation                                      100                                          130
Student                                                    70                                           80
On day partecipation                                   50                                           65
Social Dinner                                                                     60

Registration fee includes:
Attendance to all scientific sessions
Scientific documentation
Coffee breaks and lunches
Certificate of Attendance and ECM Credits

ABSTRACTS
You are kindly invited to submit abstracts for the meeting, either for oral or poster presentations. Abstracts should be submitted online, at this address by 31st January, 2010.
In order to appropriately submit your material, please, follow the instruction wizard on the site.

SOCIAL PROGRAMME
The social programme will be defined by the 30th of september, 2009 and it will published on the second announcement

SPONSORSHIPAND EXHIBITION
You can demonstrate your commitment to science and society by becoming a sponsor or exhibitor of the meeting. For more information, please contact the Organizing Secretariat

CONTACTS
Organizing Secretariat
Amaltea edizioni
Via D. Pellegrino, 26
73020 Melpignano - Lecce
Tel. +39 0836 330059
Fax +39 0836 434007
E-mail: info@amalteaonline.com
www.amalteaonline.com