1st Congress on Fatty Liver and Metabolic Syndrome
will be held on 12-14 November, 2009, Budapest, Hungary Ramada Resort Hotel.All of us are aware of the fast growing attention of liver and metabolism related issues. Fatty Liver and Metabolic Diseases focuses on the latest advances in all biomedical aspects and therapeutic modalities of hepatic steatosis, steatohepatitis, progression of fibrosis in the liver, concommitant hepatitis B or C virus infection, hepatocellular carcinoma and will discuss them with a select group of scientists in the field from all over the world (see www.fattyliver.hu for details).
- Giuseppe Poli (Turin, Italy): Lipid oxidation, inflammation and fibrosis
- Lajos Szollár (Budapest, Hungary): The metabolic syndrome
- Neven Zarkovic (Zagreb, Croatia): The relevance of lipid peroxidation in liver pathopysiology
- Thomas Baumert (Strasbourg, France): Hepatitis C virus infection and lipid metabolism
- László Halmy (Budapest, Hungary): Obesity and fatty liver
- Chrys Chatgilialoglu (Bologna, Italy): Trans fatty acids in membranes: from nutrition to radical stress
- Fiorella Biasi (Turin, Italy): Lipid oxidation and fibrogenesis in cancer progression
- Peter Fülöp (Debrecen, Hungary): Molecular biology of lipid accumulation in the liver
- Zsuzsa Schaff (Budapest, Hungary): Pathologic significance of the fat in the liver cells
- Grzegorz Bartosz (Lodz, Poland): Reactive oxygen species: Destroyers or messengers in non-alcoholic fatty liver?
- Gabriella Lengyel (Budapest, Hungary): Fatty liver and respond to combined peginterferon and ribavirin treatment
- György Paragh (Debrecen, Hungary): The effect of statins on the hepatocyte function
- Tatjana Ábel (Budapest, Hungary): Statins in the therapy of fatty liver
- János Fehér (Budapest, Hungary): Therapy modalities in non-alcoholic steatohepatitis
- Molecular biology of lipid accumulation in the liver
- Pathology – pathophysiology
- Clinical form (fatty liver, NASH, HCC)
- Fatty liver in childhood
- Dyslipidaemia and fatty liver
- Diabetes and fatty liver
- Fatty liver and viral (HBV, HCV) infection
- Diagnostic procedures
- Therapeutic modalities
Conference Venue:
Ramada Resort Budapest is a four-star superior conference and wellness hotel offering unique services: it has 309 rooms, suites and apartments with internet connection; a conference centre with a capacity of almost 1000; a spa, wellness and fitness unit; an entertainment centre; indoor and outdoor car parks with a total capacity of more than 1000 and direct access to Aquaworld, one of the biggest indoor water theme parks in Europe.
Register early (before 30 April) and submit your abstract on www.fattyliver.hu.
On behalf of the Organizing Committee,
Prof. János Fehér MD, DSc. Chairman 2nd Dept of Medicine | Ms. Edina Barabás Congress secretary |
