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Programme of events
13th Annual Meeting of
The Institute of
Molecular Medicine
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at St. James’s Hospital
12th & 13th
November 2010
Durkan Lecture Theatre
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13th Annual Meeting of The Institute of Molecular Medicine - Programme of events
9.00 am Registration
DAY 1 Friday 12th November
SESSION I
Chairs: Dr. Aideen Long, Senior Lecturer, Institute of Molecular Medicine (IMM), TCD and Dr.
Tom Ryan, Consultant Anaesthetist, St James's Hospital (SJH) and Principal Investigator, IMM,
TCD
9.40 am Opening of Meeting
Prof Dermot Kelleher, Director, Institute of Molecular Medicine, Head of Department of
Clinical Medicine, Head of School of Medicine, TCD
9.45 am 8th Institute of Molecular Medicine Lecture
Prof John O'Leary, Professor of Pathology, TCD, Consultant Histopathologist St. James's Hospital
and Principal Investigator, Institute of Molecular Medicine.
"Novel functional and mechanistic insights in cancer"
10.30 am Prof Seamas Donnelly, Consultant and Principal Investigator, Education and Research Centre,
St. Vincent's Hospital, and School of Medicine, UCD
"Pulmonary Fibrosis: Genetic Susceptibility and Potential Novel Therapies"
11.15 am Coffee Break
SESSION II
Chairs: Prof Con Feighery, Professor of Immunology, Head of Dept. Immunology, TCD and
Principal Investigator, IMM and Dr. Derek Doherty, Lecturer in Clinical Immunology, TCD and
Principal Investigator, IMM, TCD
11.45 pm Prof Padraic Fallon, SFI Stokes Professor of Translational Immunology, IMM, TCD
"Atopic dermatitis: a translational tail of mice and men"
12.30 pm Prof Simon Hogan, Professor of Paediatrics, Division of Allergy and Immunology, University of
Cincinnati, USA
"Intestinal permeability and mast cells regulate severity of food-induced anaphylaxis"
13.15 pm Lunch
SESSION III
Chairs: Prof Kingston Mills, Professor of Experimental Immunology, Head of School of
Biochemistry and Immunology, TCD, IMM and Prof Joe Keane, Respiratory Consultant, SJH,
Associate Professor and Principal Investigator, IMM and TCD.
14.30 pm Prof Alan Irvine, Professor of Dermatology, IMM, TCD and Consultant Dermatologist, Our
Lady's Hospital, Crumlin
"Breaking down the barriers in allergic disease"
15.15 pm Prof SGO Johansson, Professor of Clinical Immunology and Allergy, Division of Medicine,
Karolinska Institute, Sweden
"Ig E - to be or not to be"
16.00 pm Coffee Break

SESSION IV
Chairs: Prof Frank Giles, Professor of Cancer Therapeutics and Director, HRB Clinical Research
Facility, NUI, Galway and TCD and Dr. Dermot O'Toole, Consultant Gastroenterologist, Senior
Lecturer, SJH and Principal Investigator, IMM, TCD
16.30 pm Prof Patrick Maxwell, Professor of Medicine and Director of the Division of Medicine,
University College London
"Confessions of a clinician scientist - how oxygen turned me on"
17.15 pm State of the Art Lecture
Prof John Iredale, Professor of Medicine, Director of MRC/UoE Centre for Inflammation
Research, Queen's Medical Research Institute, University of Edinburgh
"Liver fibrosis: exploring the dynamic nature of inflammation and repair in a solid organ"
18.00 pm POSTER COMPETITION AWARDS
Judges: Professors Cormac Taylor and Simon Hogan
18.15 pm Reception
9.00 am Registration
DAY 2 Saturday 13th November
SESSION V
Chairs: Prof John Reynolds, Professor of Surgery, St. James's Hospital and Principal
Investigator, IMM, TCD and Dr Evelyn Conneally, Consultant Haematologist, St James's
Hospital
9.30 am Prof Cormac Taylor, Associate Professor, Conway Institute, UCD
"Into thin air: hypoxia-dependent pathways as new therapeutic targets"
10.15 am Prof Frank Giles, Professor of Cancer Therapeutics, Director, HRB Clinical Research Facility, NUI
Galway and TCD
"CML - moving towards cure of all patients"
11.00 am Coffee Break
SESSION VI
Chairs: Prof Owen Smith, Professor of Haematology, TCD, Consultant Paediatric
Haematologist, Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin and Dr. Roger Preston, Principal
Investigator, Haemostasis Research Group IMM, TCD
11.30 am Dr. Paul Browne, Consultant Haematologist, St James's Hospital and Principal Investigator,
IMM and TCD
"The cancer-immunology interface in myeloma: a model for translational therapeutics"
12.15 pm The John Durkan Memorial Lecture
Prof Shaun McCann, Professor of Academic Medicine, TCD
"Back to the future"
1.00 pm End of Meeting
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