Conference Report:Targeting Therapy of Alzheimer’s and Related Neurodegenerative Diseases

The first Fusion Conference on ‘Targeting Therapy of Alzheimer’s and Related Neurodegenerative Diseases’ was held in Nassau, Bahamas from 1st to 4th June, 2018.The conference attracted scientists from countries around the world such as; the USA, Canada, UK, Belgium, and Japan. In the inaugural keynote lecture, Dr. David Holtzman from Washington University first presented a historical overview of…

THERAPEUTIC STRATEGIES, TARGETS AND RECENT CLINICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN ALZHEIMER’S AND RELATED NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES

Alzheimer’s disease is the most common age-dependent neurodegenerative disease, which affects over 5 million people in the US and over 35 million people worldwide. Riqiang Yan, Professor at the University of Connecticut Health Center and one of the chairs of the forthcoming Targeting Therapy of Alzheimer’s and Related Neurodegenerative Diseases Conference stresses ‘With only four…

Special Student Offer – Bahamas 2018

Due to the popularity of our recent student offer for Mexico 2018 we are pleased to confirm that we are extending the offer to all our 2018 Bahamas conferences too.  Any fully paying academic registering will qualify to bring along a student for just $850.00.  Both academic and student packages include accommodation (on a shared…

Special Student Offer – Mexico 2018

We understand the financial implications of attending a conference can create a huge barrier for students and to help ease the pressure we’ve introduced a special offer for our 2018 Mexico conferences.  Any fully paying academic registering will qualify to bring along a student for half price*.  Both academic and student packages include accommodation (on a…

Top reasons for students to attend scientific conferences.

Scientific meetings are one of the few places where you will find distinguished leaders in the field sitting alongside young investigators, postdocs, early-career scientists and students. And not only are conferences a great place to showcase unpublished work and obtain feedback from some of the best minds in the industry, the unrivalled networking opportunities means they are becoming…

Meeting Report: 2nd DNA Replication as a source of DNA Damage – from Molecules to Human Health

03 July - 06 July|Rome, Italy The meeting was chaired again by Profs. Oscar Fernandez-Capetillo (CNIO, Spain and Karolinska Institute, Sweden) and Ian D. Hickson (University of Copenhagen, Denmark). The invited speakers included several of the worlds leading scientists studying DNA replication stress, DNA repair pathways and the relationship between genomic instability and human disease.…

Meeting Report: 2nd Fibroblast Growth Factors in Development and Repair

This second Fusion conference on Fibroblast Growth Factors in Development and Repair took place in Cancun Mexico, from March 8 through March 11, 2017. The meeting was chaired again by Prof. David Ornitz (Washington University, St Louis, USA) and Prof. Saverio Bellusci (Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany). The invited Faculty, which presented state of the…

ACS Synthetic Biology Report: Synthetic Biology for Natural Products conference

The Synthetic Biology for Natural Products conference took place 05 to 08 March 2017 in the luxurious Fiesta Americana Condesa resort in Cancun, Mexico. Chaired by scientific organisers David Mead (Varigen Biosciences), Claes Gustafsson (ATUM) and Michael Thomas (University of Wisconsin-Madison), the meeting covered the interface of (Meta)Genomics, Machine Learning, and Natural Product Discovery. Conference synopsis:  Genome sequencing has…

Meeting Report: Immuno-Metabolic Mechanisms of Atherosclerosis

"The meeting was chaired by Ziad Mallat (Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Cambridge, UK) and Christoph Binder (Professor of Atherosclerosis Research, Medical University of Vienna, Austria). Faculty included 3 plenary speakers: Joseph Witztum (UCSD, San Diego), Peter Libby (Harvard Medical School), Goran Hansson (Karolinska Institute, Stockholm), and 22 speakers (including the Chair and Co-Chair):…

Meeting Report: 3rd Natural Products

"The third in the series of natural product conferences was convened in beautiful Cancun, Mexico. Extending on the theme of the science of natural product research and the technology that drives the results from version #2, a wonderful group of scientists comprised of synthetic chemist, marine natural product chemists and young investigators in the field…