Irish Association of Pharmacologists 19th Annual Meeting will take place on
Friday, 30th November 2018 from 12:00 noon – 6:00 pm at
The Wellcome Wolfson Institute for Experimental Medicine, Queen’s University Belfast
We are delighted that this year’s annual meeting will take place at the Wellcome Wolfson Institute for Experimental Medicine. This is a large purpose-built centre for research located on the Queen’s University campus at the Belfast City Hospital Site. Opened in 2015, the WWIEM sits adjacent to the Centre for Cancer Research & Cell Biology and, as such, the venue is the hub of health sciences research in Belfast.
The purpose of the meeting is to provide a platform for leading researchers to present their latest findings in basic and clinical pharmacology, and in therapeutics. There will also be presentations by early-career researchers, and prizes will be awarded for best oral and poster presentations in this category. In addition, the overall winner will have the opportunity to present a talk within one of the symposia at Pharmacology 2019, the flagship meeting of the British Pharmacological Society which will be held in London in December 2019.
Programme (12:00 noon – 6:00 pm)
Registration, lunch and presentation loading, poster positioning
Welcome and opening address – Thomas Walther
(President of the Irish Association of Pharmacologists, and Professor Pharmacology & Therapeutics, University College Cork)
Keynote 1 – Jochen Prehn
(Professor of Physiology & Director, Centre for Systems Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland)
‘Apoptosis sensitisers for the therapy of treatment resistant colorectal cancer’
4 x 12 min (9+3 for questions) oral communications
Keynote 2 – Amrita Ahluwalia
(Professor of Vascular Pharmacology and Co-Director of William Harvey Research Institute, London; Chief Editor of British Journal of Pharmacology)
‘’Sodium nitrite as a cardioprotective strategy: not lost in translation’’
Tea and Annual General Meeting
Postgraduate student-led workshop facilitated by Amrita Ahluwalia
Reporting of experimental design and data analysis
4 x 12 min (9+3 for questions) oral communications
Keynote 3 – Danny McAuley
(Professor and Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine at the Royal Victoria Hospital and Queen’s University of Belfast)
‘Pharmacological treatment for the acute respiratory distress syndrome: experimental models through to clinical trials’
Poster session / judging – Drinks / snacks
Announcement and Awarding of Prizes
Prizes sponsored by
Submitting an abstract for an oral or poster presentation
There are eight slots for oral presentations, as well as a poster session. To submit an abstract for an oral or poster presentation, please download and fill in the IAP Abstract Submission Form 2018 . Return the form to Mary O’Donovan (mary.odonovan@ucc.ie). The deadline for receipt of abstracts is Friday, 12th October 2018.
Registration is now open at EVENTBRITE
Registration is €25 with a concession price of €15 for students. Admission is free for Members of the Irish Association of Pharmacologists.
The cost of registration includes lunch and a drinks reception.
