Programme of Events (PDF 271 kB) - Trinity College Dublin

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