| Tuesday March 24th |
| 08:00 – 09:00 |
Registration |
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| Session 1: |
Opening session and keynote address |
| 09:00 – 10:00 |
Itamar Raz, President D CURE
Opening remarks
George King (Boston)
Diabetic complications: causes and strategies for prevention
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| 10:00–10:30 |
Coffee Break |
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| Session 2: |
Insulin signaling |
| 10:30–12:00 |
Jeffrey Pessin (New York)
Fyn, a novel signaling pathway regulating energy metabolism
Yehiel Zick (Rehovot)
Negative feed-control mechanisms along the insulin signaling
pathway: IRS proteins and insulin resistance
Hans-Ulrich Haering (Tuebingen)
Title to be announced |
| 12:00–13:30 |
Lunch & Posters |
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| Session 3: |
Adipose tissue |
| 13:30–15:00 |
Juergen Eckel (Duesseldorf)
Molecular mechanisms of fat and muscle crosstalk
Paul Trayhurn (Liverpool)
Adipose tissue dysfunction in obesity - not enough oxygen?
Assaf Rudich (Beer Sheva)
Adipose tissue inflammation, adipocyte stress and dysfunction in obesity |
| 15:00-15:30 |
Coffee Break |
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| Session 4: |
Pancreas, retina, kidney |
| 15:30–17:00 |
Philippe Halban (Geneva)
Chatting with the beta cell: intra-islet and inter-organ
communication in beta cell function and survival
Irit Rosenblatt (Petah Tiqva)
New treatments for an old disease - new horizons in treating diabetic retinopathy
Mogher Khamaisi (Haifa)
Hypoxia and hypoxia adaptation in the diabetic kidney:
role of the endothelin/endothelin converting enzyme system |
