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2010 Feb 17th



  • 39th EHRS meeting in Durham, England on 21 April to 25 April 2010


    Early Registration deadline extended to Feb 28th 2010

    Late Registration late fee £50 after Feb 28th 2010



2010 Feb 10th



    Dear Histamine Friends,


  • The next EHRS meeting in Durham, England on 21 April to 25 April 2010 is coming closer. Please don’t forget that the deadline for early Registration and Accommodation is 15th of February.
    Look at the website for information.

    I have just returned from a premeeting in Durham.

    Durham is a wonderful little historical university town.
    The impressive Durham Cathedral has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site along with nearby Durham Castle, which faces it across Palace Green, high above the River Wear.

    It is really going to be a wonderful and most stimulation meeting with a very interesting programme.
    The preliminary programme (23,5MB) is now set.


  • Also I have a message from the organizer Paul Chazot.

    COST ESR WG1 Methods Workshop

    Please inform me directly if you wish to attend the free COST sponsored ESR WG1 Workshop (wed 21st April 10.00-16.00) & require a further night accomodation by email: paul.chazot@dur.ac.uk ASAP.

    Sessions will include the following topics:

    Medicinal chemistry & Receptor modelling (Prof Rob Leurs)
    Genomics and bioinfomatics (Prof Andras Falus)
    Antibody production and validation (Dr Paul L Chazot)
    In vivo preclical behavioural tests (Dr Abdel Ennaceur)
    Inflammation models (Professor Emmanuela Masini).

    Thanks


    Paul


    We wish you all heartily welcome to the 39th EHRS Meeting in Durham!

    Best wishes and see you in Durham!


    Anita Sydbom
    President EHRS



2009 Dec 22nd



    Dear Histamine Friends,


    I wish you a



    This year is coming to an end and we are now looking forward to what the next year 2010 and a new decade might bring to us.

  • For our society it has been a very exciting year. The 38th meeting of the European Histamine Research Society was held in the wonderful Baroque city of Fulda, Germany. It was a cultural high light as well as a very good scientific meeting, and many thanks to the organizer Friedhelm Diel. Our society received three new Honorary Members, Madeleine Ennis, Bruno Mondovi and Fred Pearce. All about the meeting, abstract book, photos etc can be seen on this website: Previous Meetings.
    Please have a look around and also read about our new Honorary Members.

  • NEXT MEETING:
    The 39th EHRS meeting will be in Durham, England on 21-25th April 2010 by invitation from Paul Chazot.

    Science Programme:
    Invited Plenary speakers:
    Professor J-C Schwartz (Bioprojet, France)
    Professor P Blandina (Florence, IT)
    Dr T Lovenberg (J&J, US)
    Dr T Esbenshade (Abbott, US)
    Dr Steve Liu (Pfizer, UK)


    All information on the website:
    http://www.dur.ac.uk/conference.booking/details/?id=40

    DEADLINES are:

    Abstract submission: 4th January
    Student Bursary Application 7th January
    EHRS Young Investigator Award Application 12th January
    Registration, Accommodation 15th February



  • INFLAMMATION RESEARCH:
    As you have heard in earlier EHRS News there has to be a change in the way we publish our proceedings from our meetings. There is a committee working especially on this problem. The committee consists of many former publication secretaries and editors: Fred Pearce, Gill Sturman, Ekaterini Tiligada, Andras Falus and is chaired by Madeleine Ennis. The result and the recommendation will be put forward at the General Assembly Meeting in Durham for us all to vote upon.


  • WEBSITE:
    The EHRS website is managed by Anna Gilicze, a student of Andras Falus, Hungary. The latest NEWS is regularly updated. Paul Chazot is still responsible for the scientific part of the website. New for this year is the addition of   HOT NEW PAPERS. You are all regularly requested to add interesting papers and short expert reviews.
    If you have old programmes (or old pictures) at home lying around I am particularly interested to add information to our website about earlier meetings that we lack information about. Please tell me and send to me especially about the meetings: Seville 1997, Kuopio 1990 and any meeting between 1972 and 1979.


  • COST:
    The EU supported COST project Action BM0806:: "Recent advances in histamine receptor H4R research" is now running for another three years. Many thanks to Ekaterini Tiligada and Paul Chazot for all the work during the last years to make this possible.


    1. First Workshop BioMedChem on Histamine H4 Receptor - New Compounds for Translational Steps of the Working Group-4 "Therapeutic potential of the H4R and the new compounds" was taken place on October 6, 2009, at the Goethe-University in Frankfurt.
    2. Symposium during the British Pharmacological Society Meeting QE2 Conference Centre, London, 15-17 December The Histamine H4 Receptor: New Multi-Use Therapeutic Target.
    3. Workshop on 'Histamine H4 Receptor: Where we are and where we are going...' Florence, IT (January 29 - 30, 2010)
    4. Joint Conference with the EHRS, Durham, UK (April 2010)


    Once again I wish you

    Most heartily welcome to Durham

    And

    A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010



    Anita Sydbom
    President EHRS



2009 Sept 24th



    Dear Histamine Friends,


    A flier PDF format (3 MB) for you about a coming Histamine event.

    The Histamine H4 Receptor: New Multi-Use Therapeutic Target

    QE2 Conference Centre, London, 15-17 December

    organizer Paul Chazot


    Anita Sydbom
    President EHRS



2009 Sept 21st



    An EXCELLENT TECHNICIAN (Melinda Racz) used to work for Prof Andras Falus, but due to radical cut in budget, He cannot pay her for at least 4-6 months.
    She is specifically well trained in molecular biology and genomic technologies. She IS LOOKING FOR A JOB of about 6 months. Prof Andras Falus guarantee that Melinda is a hardworker, highly intelligent and can execute whole experimental without autonomously. She speaks English.
    If you interested, see her CV in 2009 Sept 21st EHRS letter.



2009 Sept 15th

    Dear Histamine friends,


    I regret to tell you that our dear member of the EHRS prof Sayed Assem suddenly passed away yesterday on 14th of September.

    He was a great asset to our society and visited our meetings nearly every year. He will be deeply missed by many friends in the Society.

    If you would like to write to his wife Anna, the contact details are in Sad EHRS News Letter (2009 Sept 15th).

    Best wishes


    Anita Sydbom
    President EHRS



2009 May 28th



    Dear Histamine friends,


    We have just had our 38th meeting of the European Histamine Research Society in the wonderful Baroque city of Fulda, Germany. The meeting was held at Hotel Maritim in the baroque Halls of the Orangerie. We were invited to this meeting by Professor Friedhelm Diel and the meeting was organized together with the Allergie-Verein in Europa (AVE) having their 20th anniversary. It was a very stimulating meeting mostly because of excellent lectures and presentations and stimulating and friendly discussions. You all contributed to the success. Thank you!

  • ELECTIONS:

    At the General Assembly meeting of the last day in the Fulda meeting I was reelected as president of the EHRS for another three years. I hereby thank you for your trust. There was also an election for new council members as the old council had completed a three year period. I would like to thank the outgoing council members, Paul Chazot, Friedhelm Diel, Bernie Gibbs and Catherine Tiligada for very good cooperation in the council during these years.

    New elected council members were:
    Frank Ahrens (Germany) Elena Rivera (Argentina)
    Marlon Cowart (US) Hubert Schwelberger (Austria)

    Continuing in the council:
    Our Treasurer: Patrizio Blandina, Italy
    Publication Secretary: Gill Sturman, UK
    Pierre Chatelain, Belgium

  • NEW EHRS HONORARY MEMBERS:
    At our Fulda meeting new honorary members were appointed - three professors and very distinguished EHRS members, namely:

    Bruno Mondovi
    Madeleine Ennis
    Frederick Lawrence Pearce


  • MEETING PROGRAMME:

    There were excellent invited lectures, including the GB West lecture

    G.B.West Memorial Lecture
    Fritz Melchers (Germany)
    Flexibilities within and around hematopoietic cell development

    Plenary Lectures
    Karlheinz Friedrich (Germany)
    Roles of transcription factor STAT in cancer and immune disorders    		 Rob Leurs (The Netherlands)
    New molecular insights in the H4 R-receptor field
    Martin Schmelz (Germany)
    Histamine-dependent and -independent itch and pain    		 Robin Thurmond (USA)
    H4 R-ligands - clinical aspects
    Erna Pap (Hungary)
    Histamine and pregnancy    		 Jörg Kleine-Tebbe (Germany)
    Basophils - clinical aspects
     
      Per Stahl Skov (Denmark)
    The clinical usefulness of Basophil histami
    Memorial Lectures

    Wolfgang Schmutzler lecture Nina Grosman lecture
    Bernie Gibbs
    Basophils - basic science aspects     		Andras Falus
    Histamine and the "omics" era


    Round table discussion:   Histamine and Allergy
        Moderated by Madeleine Ennis


    Mast cell symposium: MCs Status quo & quo vadis
    Ulrich Blank Positive and negative role of mast cells in an experimental model of autoimmune glomerulonephritis
    Francesca Levi-Schaffer Mast cell interactions with their microenvironment in allergic inflammation
    Marcus Maurer Mast cells and the skin
    Gunnar Nilsson Regulation of mast cell survival in health and disease


    Stimulating sessions and symposia:
      Neurological and Histaminergic Responses
      Histamines and Inflammatory Processes
      Histamine H3/H4 Receptors
      Histamine Metabolism, Cellular Processes and Signal Transduction
      Histamine Receptors, H4 Receptor Ligands
      Allergotoxicology and Clinical Aspects, Immunology and Cancer
      Neurological Effects, Histaminergic Responses and Analytical Approaches
      Gastrointestinal Tract and Lung Responses
      Histamine and Cell Responses


  • Travel bursaries:
    Student travel bursaries of 500€ each sponsored by
       

    and GB West Memorial Trust were given to the Bursary Winners:

    Maria Gschwandtner   Germany
    Zsuzsa Iffiú-Soltész   France
    Tadeus Karcz   Poland
    Kamil Kuder   Poland
    Konstantinos Kyriakidis   Greece
    Egle Passante   Ireland
    Peter van Ruitenbeek   The Netherlands


  • Art A. Hancock Young Investigator Award:

    These awards are sponsored by Abbott and were given to very talented young scientists. The Winner gets 700€ and the runner up 400€.

    Results of the Art A. Hancock Young Investigator Awards sponsored by  

    Winner:    
    Maria Gschwandtner   Murine and Human Langerhans Cells Express a Functional Histamine H4 Receptor: Modulation of Cell Migration and Function
    Runner up:    
    Kerstin Sander   Development of diaminopyrimidines as histamine H4 receptor ligands - virtual screening and Scaffold optimisation
    Highly recommended:    
    Tiina-Kaisa Kukko-Lukjanov   Severity of seizures and neuronal damage are enhanced in the 9-day-old histamine 1 receptor knockout mice
    Konstantinos Kyriakidis   Effect of the H4 Receptor Antagonist JNJ7777120 on Histamine Levels of Peripheral Blood Vessels in Rats with Adjuvant Arthritis
    Natasha Lethbridge   Histamine H3 receptors in Lewy Body dementias: an autoradiographical study with [3H] GSK189254
    Hilary Whitworth   Mast Cell and Basophil Markers for Predicting Severity of Allergic Reactions to Food


  • Poster prizes:
    Results of the Poster Competition
    Winner   P47
         
        Miriam Walter, Kerstin Sander, Xavier Ligneau, Jean-Claude Camelin, Jean-Charles Schwartz, Holger Stark
        Click chemistry on histamine H3 receptor ligands and first metal containing antagonists
         
    2nd   P6
        Anayansi Molina and Ivan Velasco
         
        Histamine increases neuronal clonogenicity and induces expression of deep cortical layer markers after differentiation of neural stem cells
         
    3rd   P28
        Vanina A Medina, Maximo Croci, Graciela P Cricco, Ernesto JV Crescenti, Rosa M Bergoc, Elena S Rivera
         
        Histamine H4 Receptor Ligand JNJ7777120 Inhibits Lung Metastases in MDA-MB-231 Xenograft Tumor-bearing Mice


  • WEBSITE:
    Grateful thanks to Anna Gilicze, Hungary, who is now the webmaster and has been taken over the work from Zsuzsanna Horvath. She has been doing the job this year and performed very well and quickly. The latest NEWS is regularly updated. The pages about our Honorary members have been rearranged in a better way. Paul Chazot is still responsible for the scientific part of the website. New for this year is the addition of HOT NEW PAPERS. You are all regularly requested to add interesting papers and short expert reviews.
    If you have old programmes (or old pictures) at home lying around I am particularly interested to add information to our website about earlier meetings that we lack information about. Please tell me and send to me especially about the meetings: Seville 1997, Kuopio 1990 and

    1972 Paris
    1973 Marburg
    1974 Copenhagen
    1975 Florence
    1976 Paris
    1977 London
    1978 Lodz
    1979 Stockholm

  • Report from EPHAR 2008:

    Paul Chazot reports: “The EPHAR symposium (Manchester University, July 2008) entitled "The H3 and H4 histamine receptors: the antihistamine targets for the 21st century" organised by the EHRS was a great success attracting over 60 attendees, with many from the Pharmaceutical industry in attendance. Based on the success of the symposium, a special Themed Edition of the British Journal of Pharmacology on histamine pharmacology was published in May 2009, with the Editor and many of the contributors from the EHRS. Furthermore, the British Pharmacological Society will be hosting a follow-up histamine pharmacology symposium, proposed by the EHRS, on the 17th December 2009 in London. Speakers are all EHRS members from all over the world & everyone is most welcome to attend. After the symposium, we will be holding a COST BM0806 Working group 1 meeting; please contact Andras Falus or ourselves if you require further information on these events.” Organisers: Paul L Chazot & Katerina Tiligada

  • Report from COST ACTION BM0806:   Recent advances in histamine receptor H4R research.
    Katerina Tiligada who is in charge of this reports:
    “I would say that it was a very challenging and rewarding endeavor. The support of Paul and of many members of the EHRS was invaluable and I would really like to thank everybody that contributed to this task. Following a number of evaluation steps, where a large number of extremely competitive projects competed for approval, our proposal on this very timely topic of histamine research was ranked among the top three proposals that were approved by the COST Biomedical Sciences Domain. This was certainly rewarding both for myself, who defended the proposal through to the end and for all "histaminologists" who perform research on this very interesting and promising topic. I hope and wish that all members remain enthusiastic so to drive the Action towards beneficial end-points.” There is an active website where we all can follow the COST action. Please have a look. www.histamineresearch.com

  • PROCEEDINGS of the EHRS Fulda meeting:

    The proceedings of the meeting will be published in the journal Inflammation Research I encourage all participants of the meeting to send in their papers for publication. Instructions for this you find on the meeting website http://www.ehrs-2009.de. Please notice deadline for submitting papers is June 15.

  • ASKING FOR PICTURES:

    I would like to ask those present at the EHRS 2009 meeting in Fulda for photos. Have you any photos and in particular the bursary winners, Young Investigator Award Winners, Honorary Members and others. Please send them to me for the records and for possible exhibition on our website.

  • LIST OF MEMBERS:

    Please let me know if you have changed or plan to change address or E-mail address so we can have an updated list of all members. Also if you know of any Histamine colleague that has changed address please let me know. Anita.Sydbom@ki.se

  • NEXT MEETING:

    Our next meeting will be in Durham, England, 21-25 April 2010, and arranged by Paul Chazot. The website for this meeting will be active soon. The first announcement leaflet for this meeting in Durham can be found here in PDF format (55 KB).
    For minutes from the meeting of our General Assembly on 16th of May 2009 at the Fulda meeting and a group photo please look at Previous Meetings.


    With all the best wishes

    See you in Durham next year!


    Anita Sydbom
    President EHRS



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