The conference focused on addressing the main concerns expressed by members of the scientific community working on chronic inflammatory disease with the aim to generate problem-solving recommendations. These recommendations will be presented in a Final Report which will be published in late summer 2011 and presented at a launch conference in early autumn.
Professor Dirk Haller and Professor Harald Renz chaired this conference aimed to challenge to a high level audience the recommendations produced at the occasion of three strategic workshops, organised in the frame of the Forward Look exercise (see below).
Workshop 1: Intrinsic mechanisms in Chronic Disease
19-20 October 2010
Chaired by Professor Dirk Haller (Technical University Munich, Germany) and co-chair by Professor Per Brandtzaeg (Oslo University Hospital, Norway)
Workshop 2: Extrinsic mechanisms in chronic disease
20-21 October 2010
Chaired by Professor Erika von Mutius (Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich, Germany) and co-chaired by Professor Ingo Autenrieth (Universitätsklinikum Tübingen, Germany)
Workshop 3: Therapy and Prevention – Emerging Concepts
21-22 October 2010
Chaired by Professor Harald Renz (Philipps-University Marburg, Germany) and co-chaired by Professor William O. Cookson (Imperial College London, UK)
The final booklet for all three workshops can be downloaded here.