University of Keele, 20–22 July 1999
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Tuesday 20–Wednesday 21 July
Hormone Group Colloquium
Gene Therapy: from Bench to Bedside
- Sponsors:
- Cobra Therapeutics
- Organizers:
- S. Bidey (Manchester)
- P. Lowenstein (Manchester)
Tuesday 20 July
Session 1: Vectors for gene transfer
- Chair:
- M. Collins (London)
- 09.00 A. Lever (Cambridge)
- Lentiviral vectors for gene therapy
- 09.45 S. Kochanek (Cologne)
- New generation adenoviral vectors
- 10.30 Coffee
- 11.00 R. Samulski (N. Carolina)
- Novel AAV vectors
- 11.45 D. Latchman (London)
- Herpes simplex virus vectors for delivery to the nervous system
- 12.30 Lunch
- 13.30 Presentation from Cobra Pharmaceuticals (Colloquium sponsors)
- Chair: P. Lowenstein (Manchester)
- A. Haines (Cobra Therapeutics)
- Peptide-mediated gene delivery systems
Session 2: Current and future applications in basic and clinical science
- Chair:
- N. Lemoine (London)
- 14.30 C. Higgins (London)
- Cystic fibrosis: from animal models to the clinic
- 15.20 I. Anegon (Nantes, France)
- Gene transfer in transplantation
- 16.10 Y. Chernajovsky (London)
- Therapeutic gene transfer in autoimmune disease: methods and mechanisms
- 17.00 - 18.30 Poster Session
Wednesday 21 July
Session 3: Gene therapy for brain disease
- Chair:
- J. Darling (London)
- 09.00 P. Lowenstein (Manchester)
- The basic science of brain tumour therapy
- 09.45 P. Aebischer (Lausanne, Switzerland)
- Gene transfer into the brain: from cell transplants to HIV vectors
- 10.30 Coffee
- 11.00 Professor Anthony Watts (Oxford)
- The Morton Lecture "The need for expression expertise in solid-state NMR studies of membrane proteins: successes and wish lists"
- 12.00 Lunch
- 13.00 D. Klatzmann (Paris)
- Clinical trials of brain glioblastoma using retroviral vectors
- 13.45 L. Seymour (Birmingham)
- Gene delivery to the CNS using synthetic vectors
- 14.30 Session Break
Session 4: Gene therapy in endocrinology, pharmacology and the immune system
- Chair:
- H. Charlton (Oxford)
- 14.45 J. Uney (Bristol)
- Targeting the hypothalamus: curing salt loss in Brattleboro rats
- 15.30 M. Castro (Manchester)
- Cell-type-specific expression in the pituitary: physiology and cancer treatment
- 16.15 R. Hawkins (Manchester)
- Gene approaches to cancer vaccines
- 17.00 Poster Session
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