SCIENCE UP THE WORLD 15TH INTERNATIONAL STUDENT CONGRESS OF MEDICAL SCIENCES JUNE 3RD - 6TH 2008

Key-Note Speakers

During the plenary sessions, renown Key-Note Speakers will tell you all about the influential research they are doing. They are internationally respected for their novel research which often led to a breakthrough. We hope their gripping research will stimulate and fascinate you in your own research activities.

For ISCOMS 2008 we are proud to announce the the following key-note speakers:
  • Günter Blobel

    Cell biologist, M.D., Ph.D., John D. Rockefeller Jr. Professor at The Rockefeller University and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator

  • Wisia Wedzicha       
    Professor of Respiratory Medicine at Univerity College Londen and the Royal Free and University College Medical School  
  • Gooitzen M. van Dam                                                                                                      M.D.,Ph.D., Surgeon Associate Professor of Surgery, Program Director BioOptical Imaging Center Groningen (BICG) Department of Surgery, Division of Abdominal and Surgical Oncology, University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands

In 2007 the following key-note speakers held their lectures:

  • Kathryn Wood 

    Professor of Immunology, Transplantation Research Immunology Group, Nuffield Department of Surgery, University of Oxford, UK

    Lecture Title: "Regulatory T Cells – Controlling Rejection"

  • Robin Weiss
    Professor of Viral Oncology, University College London, UK
    Lecture Title:      "Mankind's Infectious Diseases"

  • Pieter Doevendans
    Professor and Chairman of the Department of Cardiology, University Medical Center at Utrecht, The Netherlands.
    Lecture Title: "Current state of stem cell use for cardiac regeneration"

  • Yijin Ren
    Associate professor at the Department of Orthodontics, University Medical Centre Groningen, The Netherlands.
    Lecture Title: "    The Essence of Orthodontic Force"

  • Ellen Nollen
    Associate professor at the department of Genetics, University Medical Center of Groningen, The Netherlands.
    Lecture Title: "What worms can teach us about human diseases"

In 2006 the following key-note speakers held their lectures:

  • Prof. René Bernards, PhD., Head of the Division of Molecular Carcinogenesis, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amster­dam. René Bernards won the Spinoza prize in 2005
    Lecture title: "Genomics-based approaches to the diagnosis and treatment of cancer"

  • Prof. P.J. (Paul) van der Maas PhD., Professor in Public Health and Dean of the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam.leehartwell1.jpg
    Lecture title: "Public Health and Euthanasia"

  • Prof. Lee Hartwell, PhD., President & Director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Institute, Seattle. Hartwell won the 2001 Nobel prize.
    This lecture was held by videoconference.
    Lecture title: "Half way in the century of biology: Where are we going?"

  • M.V. van Andel, M.D., Researcher in esperimental microsurgery at the Department of Cell Biology, University of Groningen. Van Andel collects examples of serendipity in science, technology and art. In 2000 he received the satiric Ig Nobel prize for his MRI-scans of the human coitus.
    Lecture title: "Serendipity at work in Global Medicine"