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Final Programme (updated 17th Feb. 2006)

 

Conference programme for Tuesday 18th April
11:00 - 18:00 Delegate arrival and registration
13:00

Opening Ceremony

 

Welcome by J Caldwell
Dean of The Faculty of Medicine, The University of Liverpool

  Welcome by BK Park
Congress Chairperson, Head of Pharmacology, The University of Liverpool
Perspectives on Drug Hypersensitivity (Chair: Caldwell & Ikezawa)
13:30 Drug industry perspective (T Kawabata, USA)
14:10 Clinical perspective (P Friedmann, UK)
14:50 Regulatory perspective (AM Breckenridge, MHRA, UK)
15:30 Refreshments
Symposium 1 : Clinical Aspects of Drug Hypersensitivity (Chair: Demoly & Khan)
16:00 Clinical manifestation of drug hypersensitivity (A Bircher, CH)
16:40 Drug allergy work-up: ENDA/EAACI recommendations (P Demoly, France)
17:20 Management of patients with drug hypersensitivity (W Aberer, Austria)

18:00

18.40

Lessons from the French registry on anaphylaxis during general anaesthesia (M Mertes, France)

WONDA (P Demoly, France, W Pichler)

19:00 - 21:00 Welcome Reception

 

Conference programme for Wednesday 19th April
08:30 - 12:00 Registration desk Open
Symposium 2: Mechanisms of Chemical Allergy (Chair: Pease & Naisbitt)
09:00 Interaction of low molecular weight chemicals with protein (C Pease, UK)
09:40 Dendritic cell mobilisation following exposure to chemical allergens (I, Kimber, UK)
10:20 Coffee
10:40 Stimulation of T-cells following exposure to chemical allergens (S Martin, Germany)
11:20 Role of regulatory T-cells in chemical allergy (A Cavani, Italy)

12:00

 

 

 

 

 

 

Selected oral communications

1. Skin sensitising potentials of dinitrochlorobenzene (DNCB) and dinitrothiocyanobenzene (DNTB) in humans.C Pickard, A Smith, C McGuire, HL Cooper, JM Jackson, M Bradley, RJ Dearman, M Cumberbatch, I Kimber, PS Friedmann (UK).

2. Comparative proteomic analysis of metal-protein interactions in human antigen presenting cells (APC). C Junkes, S Helm, S Eikelmeier, N Guerreiro, HU Weltzien, H-J Thierse (Germany / Switzerland).

3. Diagnostic use of IL- 6 release by peripheral blood mononuclear cells from patients with different Clinical forms of drug hypersensitivity. J Baló-Banga Mathias, K Schweitzer, I Eördögh, J Fûrész (Hungary).

12:45 Lunch
Symposium 3: Epidemiology of Drug Hypersensitivity (Chair: Shear & Roujeau)
13:45 Epidemiology of drug hypersensitivity (N Shear, Canada)
14:25 Lessons from the SCAR European Registry (JC Roujeau, France)
15:05 Tea
15:35 Epidemiology and pathogenesis of anaphylaxis (R Pumphrey, UK)
16:15 Perspectives on drug induced immune liver injury (G Kenna, UK)
18:00-19.00 Posters and wine reception

 

Conference Programme for Thursday 20th April
08:30 - 12:00 Registration desk open
Symposium 4: Chemical and Cellular Basis of Drug Hypersensitivity (Chair: Park & Uetrecht)
09:00 The relationship between metabolic activation and drug sensitivity (J Uetrecht, Canada)
09:40 Stimulation of immune cells by chemically inert drugs (W Pichler, Switzerland)
10:20 Coffee
10:40 Evaluation of the effects of drugs on co-stimulatory receptor expression (R Pieters, The Netherlands)
11:20 Relationhip between viral reactivation and drug hypersensitivity (T Shiohara, Japan)

12:00

 

 

 

 

 

Selected oral communications

1. Agonism, partial agonism and antagonism of sulfanilamides on sulfamethoxazole-specific T cell receptors. BO Gerber, JPH Depta, DA Schmid, WJ Pichler (Switzerland).

2. Human T cell responses to phenytoin require metabolism-dependent processing and presentation. HL Cooper, C Pickard, E Healy, PS Friedmann (England).

3. A study of the sequence of events involved in nevirapine-induce skin rash in brown norway rats. M Popovic, J Caswell, JP Uetrecht (Canada).

12:45 Lunch
Symposium 5: Immunogenetics of Drug Hypersensitivity (Chair: Pirmohamed & Mallal)
13:45 Recent advances in pharmaco- and immunogenetics (M Pirmohamed, UK)
14:25 Predisposition to drug hypersensitivity in patients with HIV (S Mallal, Australia)
15:05 Tea
15:35 Predisposition to severe cutaneous drug hypersensitivity reactions (Y Chen, Taiwan)

16:15

 

 

 

 

 

Selected oral communications

1. Severe Cutaneous Drug Hypersensitivity and Herpes Virus Infection. Z Ikezawa, Ch Watanabe, K Nakamura, N Mitani, M Aihara (Japan).

2. Abacavir Patch Testing and Rechallenge in Patients Labeled with Abacavir Hypersensitivity Syndrome. EJ Phillips, G Larsen, Z Brumme, M Harris, J Toy, R Harrigan, S Mallal, JSG Montaner (Canada/Australia).

3. Animal Models of Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis. H Azukizawa , H Kosaka, S Sano, S Itami, I Katayama (Japan).

18:00
Congress Dinner (Crowne Plaza, Liverpool)

 

Conference Programme for Friday 21st April
08:30 - 12:00 Registration desk open
Symposium 6: Laboratory Investigations into the Fundamental Mechanisms of Drug Hypersensitivity (Chair: Pichler & Weltzien)
09:00 Presentation of low molecular weight chemicals to T-cells (H Weltzien, Germany)
09:40 Specificity and sensitivity of T-cell recognition (A. George, UK)
10:20 Coffee
10:40 IgE mediated drug hypersensitivity: from in vitro models to clinical benefit (M Castells, USA)
11:20 Relationship between localised metabolic activation of drugs and immune cell activation (D Naisbitt, UK)
12:00

Selected oral communications

1. Dendritic Cell Metabolism of Sulfamethoxazole Leads to Increased CD40 Expression. JP Sanderson, DJ Naisbitt, J Farrell, N Drummond, K Mathews, M Pirmohamed, SE Clarke, BK Park (England).

2. Protein haptenation in dendritic cells exposed to sulfonamide or sulfone. S Roychowdhury, CK Svensson (USA).

3. T cell responses to CTACK/CCL27 and TARC/CCL17 in drug hypersensitivity reactions: implications in cytotoxic T cell recruitment to skin. B Tapia, E Morel, MÁ Martín-Díaz, R Díaz, A Padial, T Bellón (Spain).

12:45 Lunch
Symposium 7: Individual Susceptible to Drug Hypersensitivity (Chair: Rieder & Khan)
13:45 Drug hypersensitivity in children (M Rieder, Canada)
14:25 Drug hypersensitivity in HIV (JC Roujeau, France)
15:05 Tea
15:35 Current thoughts on rechallenge (A Romano, Italy)
16:15
Closing Ceremony

 
       

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