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Dear colleagues
It is our great pleasure to invite you to the "10th International Workshop on Pathogenesis and Host Response in Helicobacter Infections" at Konventum (LO-skolen) in Helsingør north of Copenhagen, July 4-7, 2012. The Workshop is organised by the European Study Group on Pathogenesis and Immunology in Helicobacter Infections (ESGPIHI), which is affiliated to the European Helicobacter Study Group (EHSG). EHSG was founded in Copenhagen in 1987 and has arranged the annual "EHSG Workshop” in different European countries since 1988. The next annual workshop will be in Dublin in September 2011.
The award of the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2005 jointly to Barry Marshall and Robin Warren for their discovery of the bacterium H. pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease emphasizes an increasing focus on Helicobacter.
ESGPIHI was founded in Copenhagen in 1992 as the European Pathogenesis and Immunology Study Group by scientists working on Helicobacter infections with the main purpose of stimulating the collaboration between scientific groups. One approach to realize this goal is to arrange basic science meetings on pathogenesis and immunology. Pathophysiology, diagnosis, antimicrobial agents and susceptibility testing are not the main subjects of the meetings although basic mechanisms in these fields are borderlines to the workshop.
The first open meeting of the group was in Helsingør, Denmark in 1994 followed by Galway, Ireland 1997 and Helsingør 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008 and 2010. The 2012 Helicobacter workshop in Helsingør will also deal with:

  • Motility, adhesion and colonization of Helicobacter species
  • Molecular mechanisms and inflammation
  • Molecular genetics and virulence factors
  • Cellular and humural immune response and vaccines
  • Interactions between host cells and Helicobacter spp.
  • Carcinogenesis in Helicobacter infections
  • New Helicobacter species and extragastric Helicobacter infections
  • Experimental animal models
  • Basic mechanisms of helicobacters and probiotics
  • Metabolisms and treatment targets in Helicobacter infections

These disciplines are essential for understanding the development of chronic gastritis, peptic ulcer, gastric cancer and MALT lymphoma, as well as the extragastric manifestations of Helicobacter infections in humans and in experimental animal models.
Over the years, the workshops have developed into international meetings with interaction between invited specialists presenting keynote lectures and young scientists presenting original work.

We look forward to seeing you in Helsingør in July 2012.

Dr. Leif Percival Andersen & Professor Torkel Wadström
Chairmen

 

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Organised by Helicobacter Research Center Oresund (HRCO)
in collaboration with DGHM Task Force "Gastrointestinal Infections"

 

Last updated: May 2, 2011