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Robert Kelsh, Chair of the ESPCR 2010 Meeting

The XVIth ESPCR Meeting (ESPCR 2010) is over. Robert Kelsh (Chair), Dot Bennett and Colin Goding must be praised for ensembling a terrific meeting, full of most interesting talks and lively discussions, at the facilities of the Wellcome-Trust Conference Centre in Hinxton-Cambridge, UK. Up to 180 delegates gathered this time, mostly from Europe, but also from USA, Australia, Japan and Korea.

Wellcome-Trust Conference centre, Hinxton-Cambridge, UK

Next year it will be the turn of the International Pigment Cell Conference (IPCC), (IPCC 2011), that will be organized by Alain Taïeb, in Bordeaux (France), September 21-24, 2011. Put a mark in your agenda for this forthcoming meeting. We hope to seeing you all again in Bordeaux!.

IPCC 2011

16th ESPCR meeting, final programme, Hinxton, UK, September 4-7, 2010

The final programme of the forthcoming 16th meeting of ESPCR, to be held in Hinxton (Cambridge, UK), on September 4-7, 2010, has just been released by the Organizers.

ESPCR 2010 Meeting

ESPCR 2010 Meeting

ESPCR 2010 Meeting

Deadline for Late Registration to attend the 2010 ESPCR meeting, to be held at the Wellcome Trust Conference Centre, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK, on September 4-7, 2010, is:

August 13, 2010

Registration and additional information available at the meeting web site

16th ESPCR meeting, ESPCR2010, Hinxton, UK, September 4-7, 2010

Important deadlines for the forthcoming 16th ESPCR meeting (ESPCR 2010) , organized by Dr. Robert Kelsh (Univ. Bath, UK) and to be held at the Wellcome Trust Conference Centre, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK, on September 4-7, 2010.

IMPORTANT DEADLINES:

Application for ESPCR registration awards: April 30, 2010

Abstract submission: May 31, 2010

Early registration at reduced fees: June 16, 2010

Late registration: August 13, 2010

New ESPCR Bulletin published (nº 66, April 2010)

A new ESPCR bulletin (nº 66, April 2010) has been published and it is now available from the members-only area of the ESPCR web site. All past bulletins, with the exception of those corresponding from the last three years, are also available from the BULLETIN ESPCR web page.

7th Melanoma Meeting, Nice, France, June 16-18, 2010

The 7th Melanoma Meeting, entitled “Emerging Concepts in Melanoma Biology. Pave the Road to New Therapies” will be held in Nice, France, on June 16-18, 2010.

This meeting is organized by Corine BERTOLOTTO, INSERM U895, Nice; Véronique DELMAS, Institut Curie, Orsay; Robert BALLOTTI, INSERM U895, Nice; Lionel LARUE, Institut Curie, Orsay; Jean-Paul ORTONNE, CHU, Nice; Alain SARASIN, IGR, Villejuif and the meeting pre-program includes, in addition, as invited speakers: Colin GODING, Friedrich BEERMANN, Alain MUAVIEL, Dot BENNETT, Marisol SOENGAS, Daniel PEEPER, Bernard WEHRLE-HALLER, Nathalie LABARRIERE, Richard MARAIS, Caroline ROBERT, Owen SANSOM, Luisa LANFRANCONE, Irwin DAVIDSON, Eirikur STEIMGRIMSSON, Eric GILSON, Marie-Dominique GALIBERT and Keith HOEK.

Registration fee is 70 Euros. Interested participants should contact Robert Ballotti.

2010 ESPCR registration awards for the 16th ESPCR annual meeting

Dear ESPCR members,

Following a well established tradition, The European Society for Pigment Cell Research will provide SEVEN REGISTRATION  AWARDS  for attendance at XVI ESPCR meeting to be held at Hinxton-Cambridge (United Kingdom), on September 4-7, 2010.  Awards will cover exclusively conference registration and accommodation costs (in twin bed rooms), according to the ESPCR 2010 meeting web site. Applicants, typically  PhD student or junior scientists, may obtain full details at the ESPCR web site.  Awards will be made by the ESPCR Registration Awards Committee on a competitive basis.

Deadline for receiving applications: April 30, 2010

All the best,

Alessandra Napolitano, Chair, ESPCR Travel Awards Committee

4th National Congress of SOMADEC-Melasma Course

The Fourth Congress of the Moroccan Society of Aesthetic and Surgical Dermatology (SOMADEC) will be held in Rabat on May 7-8 th 2010 including plenary lectures, courses, round tables and workshops.
As in the past year, the entire first day will be devoted to a training Course of Pigmentology. For this next meeting the topic choosen will be: “The Melasma management in daily practice” which is, as you know, a challenging problem for the dermatologists. During the second Day, the most recent developments in: “The use of Lasers, fillers and botulinium toxin ” will be presented by experts and discussed.
We hope to see you numerous in Rabat in May 2010. We will try to make that this meeting will be beneficial for all the dermatologists attending, both in the field of scientific knowledges and in the field of the daily practice, in a socially and culturally most stimulating environment.

Pr Laila Benzekri
Secretary-General of the Moroccan Society of Aesthetic and Surgical Dermatology

ESPCR Bulletin n. 65 (December 2009)

A new issue of the ESPCR Bulletin (number 65, December 2009) has been published. This ESPCR Bulletin can be browsed through the members-only section. ESPCR Members will require a valid username and password to access.