'Iron-related diseases: a look to the future', Cambridge, UK
18 March 2011 - 18 March 2011
United Kingdom
An event entitled 'Iron-related diseases: a look to the future' will take place on 18 March 2011 in Cambridge, UK.
Iron is central to the health of humans. It is an essential co-factor in oxidative metabolism and related processes. Accumulation of excess iron is now increasingly recognised as occurring in many diseases - and is often age-related.
Innovative science now offers new stratagems for the diagnosis and treatment of disorders of iron metabolism; it may also allow the course of several neurodegenerative diseases to be modified specifically by interventions that affect the cellular disposition of iron in the brain.
In fact, the past decade has seen the identification of numerous proteins implicated in iron transport, its storage and control of its metabolism. The event will focus discussion on these intriguing molecules and examine unique the perspective they offer into cellular iron homeostasis and pathophysiology.For further information, please click: here(opens in new window)
Iron is central to the health of humans. It is an essential co-factor in oxidative metabolism and related processes. Accumulation of excess iron is now increasingly recognised as occurring in many diseases - and is often age-related.
Innovative science now offers new stratagems for the diagnosis and treatment of disorders of iron metabolism; it may also allow the course of several neurodegenerative diseases to be modified specifically by interventions that affect the cellular disposition of iron in the brain.
In fact, the past decade has seen the identification of numerous proteins implicated in iron transport, its storage and control of its metabolism. The event will focus discussion on these intriguing molecules and examine unique the perspective they offer into cellular iron homeostasis and pathophysiology.For further information, please click: here(opens in new window)