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January 25-28, 2009 Fess Parker’s Doubletree Resort Santa Barbara, California, USA
Dear Colleagues,
On behalf of the International and of the Local Organizing Committees, we
are delighted to welcome you to the 17th International Symposium on Regulatory
Peptides.
We would like to extend our sincere gratitude to Joseph L. Goldstein who
graciously accepted to deliver the Opening Lecture of the Symposium and to Drs
Olivier Civelli, Mark von Zastrow, Masamitsu Nakazato, Timothy C. Wang and
Martín Martín for accepting to deliver plenary lectures. We congratulate Dr. Herbert
Herzog who was selected to present the 8th Viktor Mutt Lecture and Dr. Dai H. Chung
who was selected to deliver the 1st Werner Creutzfeldt Lecture.
We also like thank all that accepted to act as Co‐Chairs of the Scientific
Sessions and congratulate the young investigators that received Travel Awards. In
order to enable all participants to present their excellent research and stimulate
interactions and discussions, the posters will be displayed for the duration of the
meeting in addition to the official poster session. We hope this will give ample
opportunity to view and discuss the posters during the breaks, lunch and breakfast.
We also like to express our appreciation to the Institutions, Foundations
and Companies that provided Educational Grants and Sponsorship for the
Symposium. We are immensely grateful to James Sinnett‐Smith and Jacqueline Ismen
for their input in the organization of the Symposium; without their indefatigable work
this meeting could not have taken place.
Lastly, we extend our thanks to the Steering Committee of the
International Society of Regulatory Peptides and all participants, the staff of the Fess
Parker’s Doubletree resort and the local organizing committee.
Sincerely yours,
Enrique Rozengurt, Chair
Yvette Taché and Joseph Pisegna, Co‐Chairs
17th International Symposium on Regulatory Peptides
Steering Committee
Daniel Fourmy, PhD (Chair) Inserm, Toulouse, France
Christoph Beglinger, MD, PhD
(Treasurer)
Division of Gastroenterology, University
Hospital, Basel, Switzerland
Graham Baldwin, PhD Department of Surgery
University of Melbourne,
Austin Health
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Dan Drucker, MD, PhD Mount Sinai Hospital
Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Linda Hilsted, MD, PhD University Department of Clinical Biochemistry,
Rigshospitalet
Copenhagen, Denmark
Wolfgang E. Schmidt, MD, PhD Department of Gastroenterology and
Hepatology, St. Josef‐Hospital, Ruhr‐University
Bochum School of Medicine
Bochum, Germany
Kentaro Sugano, MD, PhD Department of Internal Medicine, Division of
Gastroenterology
Jichi Medical University, Tochigi, Japan
Anrea Varro, MD, PhD Physiological Laboratory, School of Biomedical
Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Yvette Taché, PhD Department of Medicine, UCLA
Los Angeles, California, USA
Seiji Shioda, MD, PhD Department of Anatomy I, Showa University,
School of Medicine,
Tokyo, Japan
Michael Wolfe, MD Section of Gastroenterology, Boston Medical
Center, Boston University _ School of Medicine,
Boston, MA, USA
Local Organizing Committee, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
Enrique Rozengurt, DVM, PhD Chair
Joseph Pisegna, MD Co‐Chair
Yvette Taché, PhD Co‐Chair
Joyce Fried Stephen J. Pandol, MD
Vay Liang Go, MD Charalabos Pothoulakis, MD
Jacqueline Ismen Joseph Reeve, PhD
Jonathan Kaunitz, MD Jim Sinnett‐Smith, BS
Martín Martín, MD Catia Sternini, MD
Emeran Mayer, MD James Waschek , PhD