Objective
Recent technological advances in genomics, proteomics and bioinformatics have yielded new insights into the molecular mechanisms that underlie immune cell signalling and function, and opened up new avenues for biological investigation. Although interesting results have emerged by the application of genomics / proteomics in basic studies performed in various models of ageing, these new technologies have only recently been introduced in studies on the ageing immune system. The goal of the planned two day conference for 150 participants is therefore to assess the present standing of European research in this field, by providing a forum for scientific exchange among the most outstanding European scientists working in immunogerontology, representatives of key stakeholders of industry, including SMEs, and field leaders from the United States (to be funded by the NIH), where a large number of projects on genomics and the ageing immune system have recently been funded and are in progress. The conference is scheduled to take place in Paris in September 2006 right before the 16th European Congress of Immunology. This will not only reduce travel expenses, but will also stimulate leading European mainstream immunologists not yet in touch with ageing research to enlarge their research interests and participate, particularly as many national immunology societies will be using this forum for their annual meetings, for the first time. The planned conference will provide an excellent basis for constructive discussions on recent achievements in research on the ageing immune system, advantages and limits of the usage of genomics / proteomics as well as methodological developments and clinical application in this field. We expect that the planned endeavour will contribute substantially to a more integrated and better coordinated European Research structure in immunogerontology.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences biological sciences genetics
- natural sciences biological sciences biochemistry biomolecules proteins proteomics
- natural sciences biological sciences cell biology cell signaling
- medical and health sciences basic medicine immunology
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FP6-2004-LIFESCIHEALTH-5
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VIENNA
Austria
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