Report from the user group meeting

WORKING GROUP REPORT The message from the World Asthma Meeting

The 1998 World Asthma Meeting (WAM) has been the first multidisciplinary event aimed to consider asthma as a global public health problem in children and adults. The purpose of the meeting was to present state-of-the-art scientific information and to make recommendations on the research agenda for the coming

Report of the working-group meeting

The continued threat of vector-borne diseases calls for both reactive and proactive efforts to mitigate the significant morbidity and mortality they cause. To anticipate future demands for novel vector control strategies, the UNICEF/UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) formalized a work plan to evaluate genetic-control strategies for prevent...

Report on Z user meeting (ZUM '94)

the last week of June 1994. In a break with tradition, there was no Z User Meeting in 1993. With an 18 month break between ZUM'92 and ZUM'94, the venue was greatly enhanced by the more clement British summer climate than that which had been endured during the previous Z User Meetings, in the previously regular December slot. (Praxis) was Programme Chair, and Mike Hinchey (University of Cambridg...

Meeting Report Cancer Immunotherapy Highlights from the 2014 ASCO Meeting

The promise of cancer immunotherapy was validated officially in March 2011 when the FDA approved Yervoy (ipilimumab; Bristol-Myers Squibb) for the treatment of unresectable ormetastatic melanoma. The approval was based on results of a randomized, double-blind clinical trial establishing that ipilimumab (a humanized antiCTLA-4 monoclonal antibody) treatment extended the overall survival of patie...

Report of the Scientific Working Group meeting on Malaria