The blood barriers are frontiers of extreme biomedical importance as

1) their abnormal function is the cause of serious pathologies, and

2) healthy barriers prevent drugs distributed through blood from reaching their target.

This workshop will gather academic and industrial researchers devoted to the study of blood barriers and their transposition. The workshop will be the ideal forum for participants to share experiences and discuss their data. The program consists of both senior and young researchers.

This meeting is funded by the EC Marie Curie IAPP project FP7-PEOPLE-2007-3-1-IAPP, which partially covers the costs of all participants, mainly the young researchers presenting communications.

Beating the Blood-Brain and Other Blood Barriers Workshop Video

Peptides Against Pain - Pep to Brain Project Video

Key note speakers:
Britta Engelhardt (Switzerland) - "The Brain Barriers: Checkpoint Charlie for immune Cell Entry into the CNS"
Joan Abbott (UK) - "The blood-brain barrier and the Neurovascular Unit: drug targets and routes of delivery"

Invited and topical speakers:
Tetsuya Terasaki (Japan) - "Quantitative targeted Absolute Proteomics (QTAP): The impact on the research of Blood-brain barrier structure and function"
Maria Deli (Hungary) - "In vitro models in BBB research and drug delivery to brain"
Alexandra Brito (Portugal) - "Blood-brain barrier disruption, modulation and transportation"
Norman Saunders (Australia) - "Mechanisms of transport across the choroid plexus in the developing brain"
Hartwig Wolburg (Germany) - "The contribution of morphology to blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier research"
Joana Palha (Portugal) - "The choroid plexus response to inflammation"
David Antonetti (USA) - "Tight Junctions in Vascular Permeability and Growth Control"
Patric Turowski (UK) - "Functional apical-basal polarity of the retinal microvascular endothelium compartmentalises the vasoactive response"
Francisco Ambrósio (Portugal) - "The importance of pro-inflammatory players in the blood-retinal barrier breakdown"
Rui Bernardes (Portugal) - "Blood-retinal barrier function: noninvasive assessment"
Ernst Giralt (Spain) - "Peptides as BBB translocators"
Elizabeth de Lange (The Netherlands) - "The role of blood-brain barriers in pharmacokinetics-pharmacodynamic relationships of CNS drugs"
Isaura Tavares (Portugal) - "Targeting the analgesic drug Kyotorphin to the Brain"

 

The workshop in a glimpse:

- Scope: Biomedical and pharmacological studies on blood-brain, blood-cerebrospinal and blood-retinal barriers.

- Venue: Lisbon, Portugal (School of Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Lisbon).

- Symposia:
1) The structure and function of the Blood-Brain Barrier,
2) The Blood-Cerebrospinal Barrier,
3) The Blood-Retinal Barrier, and
4) Beating the Blood-Brain Barrier in drug development,

- Ten contributions will be selected for oral presentations; four invited topical lectures; Nine invited speakers; Two keynote speakers.


- Dates:
Meeting, February 6th-8th, 2013
Abstract submission deadline, November 15th, 2012
Early registration deadline, November 15th, 2012

"Beating the Blood-Brain and Other Blood Barriers" is supported by a Marie Curie project grant (FP7-PEOPLE-2007-3-1-IAPP).