It is our pleasure to invite you to attend the ISN’s first Forefronts Symposium of 2014 taking place in Charleston SC, USA on March 6-9. The focus this year will be on Intrinsic Regulation of Kidney Function. We look forward to seeing you in Charleston!
It is apparent that a large number of local factors modulate renal function, including arachidonate metabolites, nucleotides, peptides, nitric oxide, reactive oxygen species, physical factors and others. Understanding of such local regulation is rapidly evolving, including intratubular signaling, tubular-vascular interactions, cell-cell signaling and interactions between local and circulating factors. This large research field is fragmented and could greatly benefit by a more integrated understanding. Thus, the goal of this meeting is to bring together researchers that study intrinsic regulation of renal function.
ISN Forefronts Symposia focus on emerging and ground-breaking research. They gather nephrologists and active investigators from surrounding medical areas to explore new scientific domains and review the latest developments in kidney disease.
Known for rich history, well-preserved architecture, a celebrated restaurant community and mannerly people, the Charleston area has been named both Top U.S. City and Top Destination in the World by Condé Nast Traveler 2012 Readers' Choice Awards. This is the second consecutive year the historic coastal destination has received the No. 1 U.S. City ranking.
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The ISN Forefronts in Nephrology Symposia were initiated by key ISN leaders Roscoe “Ike” Robinson, Don Seldin, Gerhard Giebisch and others in 1984. The first symposium was held in 1986 and since then, ISN has organized more than 25 symposia (see annex) which have not only been highly stimulating exchanges of scientific knowledge but have introduced basic science to a wider nephrological audience. The program was directed by Gerhard Giebisch until 1995 and since then led by HeiniMurer and Bob Alpern. In 2004, a Forefronts Core Committee was established, bringing together a group of people with different backgrounds to ensure the future of Forefronts in Nephrology. The committee is now chaired by Kai-UweEckardt from Germany.
The ISN Forefronts in Nephrology Symposia series is fundamentally designed to advance scientific nephrology in pace with programs in clinical nephrology. Through highly interactive symposia, scientific knowledge is exchanged and advanced by intermingling nephrologists with non-nephrologists from interrelated disciplines as well as basic and clinical scientists.
Therefore, ISN Forefronts Symposia are deliberately limited in scope to allow for high levels of interaction, deep dialogue plenty of time for focused exchange. Each symposium aims to attract no more than 100 – 150 active scientists.
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