49th Annual Scientific Meeting of the
European Society for Clinical Investigation Cluj-Napoca, Romania
27 – 30 May 2015
Congress venue: Grand Hotel Napoca, Cluj-Napoca
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME
I Opening Session
- Wednesday 27 May, 17.30 – 18.30 hrs.
Meet the EJCI Editor-in-Chief: John Ioannidis - Wednesday 27 May, 19.00 – 21.30 hrs.
Opening Ceremony & Standing Dinner
II Plenary Sessions
- Thursday, 28 May, 8.30 – 9.10 hrs.
Plenary lectures ESCI Award 2015 Winners
The Best Clinical Article EJCI: Klaus Distelmaier
The Best Basic Article EJCI: Danuta Zapolska-Downar (representd by Dr. Dorota Bryk)
- Thursday 28 May, 9.10 – 12.30 hrs.
Multidisciplinary Focus Session: Inflammation From Basic to Clinical: 6 plenary lectures on Cardiology, Gastroenterology, Metabolisum, Mitochondrial Disease, Phagocyte Biology and Rheumatology - Thursday 28 May, 16.30 – 17.00 hrs.
Presidential lecture: Theodore Rokkas - Thursday 28 May, 17.00 – 17.30 hrs.
Albert Struyvenberg Medal Award lecture: Alberto Mantovani - Thursday 28 May, 17.30 – 18.00 hrs.
Special Integrative lecture: Georg Schett - Friday 29 May, 10.30 – 11.00 hrs.
Advances in Neurogastroenterology: Jan Tack
III Workshops
- Cardiovascular disease and inflammation – flyer
Organizers: Hendrik Nathoe (Utrecht, the Netherlands), Fabrizio Montecucco (Geneva, Switzerland) and Dan Radulescu (Cluj, Romania) - Metabolic disease and lifestyle
Organizers: Piero Portincasa (Bari, Italy) and Dan Dumitrascu
(Cluj-Napoca, Romania) - Mitochondrial Research: From Organelle to Patient – flyer
Organizers: Paulo J. Oliveira (Coimbra, Portugal), Mariusz
Wieckowski (Warsaw, Poland), Carlos Palmeira (Coimbra, Portugal) and
Danina Muntean (Timisoara, Romania) - Neurogastroenterology (NeurogastRO 2015)
Organizers: Dan Dumitrascu (Cluj, Romania), Vasile Drug (Iasi, Romania)
and Piero Portincasa (Bari, Italy) - Phagocyte Biology
Tracking phagocyte function in vivo; Control of non-immune
homeostasis by phagocytes; Phagocytes during infection and
therapeutic phagocytes
Organizers: Andres Hidalgo, Antonio Castrillo and Eeva Inari-Soininen
(Madrid, Spain) - Rheumatology – flyer
Organizers: György Nagy (Budapest, Hungary) and Kris Reedquist
(Utrecht,the Netherlands)
IV ESCI Master Class on Renal Stones: Metabolic evaluation and surgical updates – flyer
Organizers: Jean-Philippe Haymann, Michel Doudon and Olivier Traxer
(Paris, France), Ion Coman and Liviu Ghervan (Cluj, Romania)
V Subspecialty Poster Sessions
i) Cardiology
ii) Gastroenterology
iii) Mitochondrial disease
iv) Neurology and neurobiology
v) Phagocyte Biology
vi) Rheumatology
vii) Other topics: Basic Research
viii) Other topics: Clinical Research
The five best posters will be awarded the “ESCI Poster Award 2015” to the amount of €200 each.
Poster sessions and “Food for mind, Food to taste”: Thursday 28 May 18:00 – 19:30 and Friday 29 May 16:30 – 18:00 hrs.
VI Social Event
On Friday, 29 May 2015, you are invited to a Traditional Romanian dinner with folklore music and dance. For more details and registration, please visit the congress website.