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2011 Dec 17 th






2011 Dec 12th



    Dear Histamine Friends,


    I am deeply sorry to tell you that our dear member Pauline Haines suddenly and unexpectedly passed away on the 3rd of December.

    She was a wonderful, cheerful and loving person. She has accompanied her sister Madeleine (Ennis) to several meetings and organized the social programme for eg. the Durham meeting and was to be involved in the coming meeting in Belfast. It is a great loss to our society and she will be deeply missed by many histamine friends.

    The Requiem Mass for Pauline will be held at 11.00 on Saturday 17th December in St Canice’s Church, Borris-in-Ossory. She will then be buried in the graveyard in Skeirke, Ireland. All who knew and loved Pauline and Stuart and their families are invited to attend this celebration of her life.

    If you would like to pay respect to her husband Stuart or to her sister Madeleine Ennis, the address contacts can be found in Members News Letter 12th of Dec.


    Anita Sydbom
    President EHRS



2011 Dec 3 rd



    Dear Histamine friends,


    The online registration for the 2012 EHRS meeting in Belfast is now open.

    Please look at the website http://www.qub.ac.uk/EHRS2012 for all information.

    You can send your abstracts to EHRS2012@qub.ac.uk.


    bw,

    Anita Sydbom
    President EHRS



2011 Nov 13 th






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2011 Apr 16th



    Dear Histamine friends,


    The next EHRS meeting in Sochi 11th to 14th of May is coming closer and I have some information for you.


  • General Assembly meeting

    There will be a meeting of the EHRS General assembly on 14th of May at 17.00.  Attached is the agenda for this meeting.


  • New election for our Treasurer at the 2011 EHRS meeting

    As announced previously our Treasurer Patrizio Blandina has been on the post for three election periods and we now have to vote for his replacement at the General Assembly meeting. We thank him for the excellent work during these years.
    For the Treasurer post we have a candidate who is recommended by the Council. He is Pertti Panula. He is well known and a regular attendant of our society and has been a council member (2003-2006). He hosted the EHRS meeting 2001 in Turku as well as being a Treasurer for another scientific society. A short CV for Pertti is attached in Member Letter 16th of April.
    Other candidates for this post can also apply for this post.
    If there are any other nominations for this post it is important to know that the last date of accepting any other nominations is the 1st of May.
    If you wish to be considered for the position of Treasurer then please send me a short statement of less than a page of A4 who you are and why you would like to be considered for the post. This should reach me by the 1st of May. I will then circulate the details to all members so that everyone including those who are unable to attend this meeting can vote by email if they wish.


  • Future meetings

    2012, 2-6th May in Belfast, N. Ireland – organised by Madeleine Ennis.

    2013, 8-11th May in Łodz, Poland – organised by Agnieszka Fogel.

    To date, we have only these invitations. It is important for our forward planning to know where our future meetings will take place.
    If some of you are considering offering to host a future EHRS meeting please let me or anyone in the council to know.


  • Walter Schunack

    I would like your help to collect photos of Walter Schunack from EHRS meetings during the years. If you have some photos please send to me.



    Looking forward to meeting you in Sochi,

    With the very best wishes and a



    Anita Sydbom
    President EHRS



2011 Apr 13th



    Dear Histamine friends,


    I have a message for you from the organizer of the Sochi meeting Roman Khanferyan.

    All participants coming to the Sochi meeting please contact ASAP Roman khanferyan_roman@yahoo.com and ehrs2011@gmail.com.

    to give your flight number and arrival date and time at Adler airport and departure date and time .

    This is important for the planning of transportation with buses or others between Adler/Sochi airport and the Hotel Neva and congress venue,

    bw,

    Anita Sydbom
    President EHRS



2011 Apr 11th



    Dear Histamine Friends,


    I am deeply sorry to tell you that our dear Honorary Member Professor Walter Schunack died on the 6th of April.

    Walter Schunack was a true scientist and an excellent Histamine Researcher and a biochemist of first class. He has shared his knowledge with many of us and generously distributed histamine antagonists and agonists resulting in rich collaborations among EHRS scientists. He was, always together with his wife Ingrid, a frequent participant in our meetings and he has done a lot for our society.
    It is a great loss to our society and he will be deeply missed among many histamine friends.

    If you would like to pay respect to his widow Ingrid Schunack the address contacts can be found in Members News Letter 11th of Apr.

    With all the best wishes,

    Anita Sydbom
    President EHRS



2011 Apr 11th



    Dear All,

    In honour of our 40th annual meeting, I will prepare a poster for the forthcoming meeting in Sochi. Please send me any special memories/photos that you have from our meetings. I am particularly interested in the early meetings (1980 and before), 1994 and 1999 BUT I would appreciate your memories/photos from any of the meetings. Obviously photos containing several members are particularly welcome!
    Please send as soon as possible!
    Many thanks

    Madeleine
    M.Ennis@qub.ac.uk



2011 Jan 15th



    The  41st EHRS meeting will be held in Belfast between 2-6th May 2012 and organized by Madeleine Ennis.
    For further details please email: EHRS2012@qub.ac.uk



2011 Jan 11th



    Dear Histamine Friends,


  • I have got information from Madeleine Ennis of an alternative way to go to Sochi !

    There is ANOTHER WAY TO SOCHI with Turkish Airlines via Istanbul.


    The fare from

    Frankfurt is 406.44€
    Munich is 398.83€
    Amsterdam 480€
    Rome 405.33€
    Vienna 498.91
    Athens 361.67€
    Helsinki 542.80€
    Stockholm 4,217.59 SEK

    There are many other connections see: http://www.turkishairlines.com/en-INT/



    • Anita Sydbom
    President EHRS



2011 Jan 8th



    Dear Histamine Friends,


  • There might have been some worries about the TRAVEL TO SOCHI MEETING.

    Therefore I must remind you about the possibility to apply for travel bursaries for students of 500 Euros. Send in your applications! Please look at the website www.ksma.ru/ehrs for more information.

    The deadline for this application of student bursaries is also extended to

    18th of January


  • Also I have the latest information about the flight connections from Roman below

    Unfortunately, up to now here is no news about the new flights from Europe to Sochi (airport Adler). Maybe due to Russian holidays lasting up to January, 10.
     
    The best price for the air fairs is via Moscow (Aeroflot). The prices will be from Frankfurt, Munuch, Vienna, London, Prague e.c. ~from 350 to 450 euro.
     
    Another possibility to buy two different tickets, for example:
    1. Vienna (or other European cities) - Moscow by Aeroflot (~220 euro)
    2. Moscow-Sochi by budjet company Avianova (from the same airport) - ~100 Euro. The sites of Russian budjet companies (all have Airbuses 220 or Boieng 737) are www.avianova.com and www.skyexpress.ru
     
    I have another proposal for participants.
    In case if somebody will find a cheaper ticket on Tuesday and would like to come one day earlier - on evening 10, May, 2011- this one night will be free!
     
    In any case I will inform you about all news from Sochi airport and possible discounts.
     
    Roman Khanferyan


    • Dear friends, I do wish you all welcome to the EHRS meeting in Sochi!


    Anita Sydbom
    President EHRS



2011 Jan 6th



    Dear Histamine Friends,


  • We are missing abstracts from many of you for the EHRS meeting in Sochi. Have you forgotten to send in your abstract?

    This meeting is very special, a meeting in Russia for the second time.



    We will celebrate our 40th EHRS meeting!

    Invited lecturers are:
    RobinThurmond (US) - as GB WEST lecturer- H4 antagonists
    Igor Gushin (Russia) - Academician Mashkovsky and development of antihistamines in Russia
    Marek Jutel (Poland) - H1/H2 receptors in allergic and immune response
    Lynda Adam (AstraZeneca, Canada) - H3 development project

    Please come to this exciting 40th EHRS meeting!

    We have  extended the deadline for abstract submission until 14th of January

    All information on the website: www.ksma.ru/ehrs


    Looking forward to meet you in Sochi,


    Anita Sydbom
    President EHRS



2010 Dec 18th



    Dear Histamine Friends,


  • I wish you a


A very merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
Another year is coming to an end and we are now looking forward to what the next year 2011 might bring to us.

I has been a very exciting year. The 39th meeting of the European Histamine Research Society was held in the wonderful medieval city of Durham, England. However, it was some excitement before the meeting could take place as we had for the very first time to postpone a meeting due to the volcano ash cloud from Iceland. The meeting finally took place on 13th to 16th of July 2010. It was en excellent scientific meeting, and many thanks go to the organizer Paul Chazot. For the first time it was a joint meeting with COST Action BM0806 'Recent advances in histamine receptor H4R research'. All about the meeting, abstract book, photos etc can be seen on this website: 'Previous Meetings'.

  • Next meeting

    Next year we have a celebration as it is the 40th EHRS meeting and this will take place in Sochi, Russia, by the Black See, 11-15 May 2011, by kind invitation from Roman Khanferyan.

    Science Programme:
    Invited Plenary speakers:
    RobinThurmond (US) - as GB WEST lecturer- H4 antagonists
    Igor Gushin (Russia) - Academician Mashkovsky and development of antihistamines in Russia
    Marek Jutel (Poland) - H1/H2 receptors in allergic and immune response
    Lynda Adam (AstraZeneca, Canada) - H3 development project

    All information on the website: www.ksma.ru/ehrs
    • Be prepared to apply for VISA in time.


    Deadlines are:

    Abstract submission:   4th January
    Student Bursary Application   11th January
    EHRS Young Investigator Award Application   18th January
    Registration, Accommodation   21st February


    On behalf of the organizer Roman Khanferyan we wish you all heartily welcome!


  • The 2012 EHRS meeting:

    The 2012 meeting of the EHRS will take place between May 2 and May 6 2012 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The meeting will be organized by Madeleine Ennis.


  • 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. We have a special area of HOT NEW PAPERS. You are all regularly requested to add interesting papers and short expert reviews. If you have a paper that you think would fit in please contact Paul Chazot paul.chazot@durham.ac.uk. 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.


  • New election at the 2011 EHRS meeting:

    Our Treasurer Patrizio Blandina has been on the post for three election periods and we thank him for excellent work during these years. This means that we have to vote for a new Treasurer at the General Assembly meeting at the EHRS meeting in Sochi.


    • Once again I wish you Most heartily welcome to Sochi

    And

    A very merry Christmas and a Happy New Year


    Anita Sydbom
    President EHRS



    2010 Nov 16th



      Dear Histamine Friends,


    • The website for  next EHRS meeting in Sochi 11-14 May 2011, is now open.
      Please look at the website . You can find information about all you need.

    • Be prepared to apply for VISA in time.

    • The deadline for abstract submission is   January 4th 2011 .


      Welcome to Sochi.

      Best wishes,

      Anita Sydbom
      President EHRS



    2009 Aug 7th



      Dear Histamine friends,


      We have just had our 39th meeting of the European Histamine Research Society in the medieval town of Durham, England. This was really a very unusual situation where we for the first time had to postpone a meeting from April until July because of the volcano ash cloud. The meeting was a great scientific success and we had some very pleasant social activities e.g. a medieval dinner at Lumbley Castle . Great thanks to the organizer Paul Chazot both for the excellent meeting and also considering the circumstances for making it possible to rearrange this meeting.
      This meeting was also the first time we had a joint meeting with the COST action BM0806 Recent Advances in Histamine Receptor H4R Research and this was a great success.


    • It started already on the first day with COST ACTION BM0806 TRAINING SCHOOL

      COST ESR WG1 Methods Workshop

      Medicinal Chemistry & Receptor Modelling   Rob Leurs
      Genomics & Bioinformatics   András Falus
      In vivo preclinical studies   Abdel Ennaceur
      Antibody production & validation   Paul Chazot
      Inflammation models   Emanuela Masini


      And in the evening there was:

      COST Public Lecture

      J C Schwartz (France)
        Histamine as a neurotransmitter in brain: From discovery to novel psychotropic drugs - A short history dedicated to the memory of Sir James Black (1924-2010)


    • MEETING PROGRAMME:

      There were excellent invited lectures, including the GB West lecture


      G.B.West Memorial Lecture

      Jean-Charles Schwartz (France)
      Clinical applications of pitolisant (BF2.649), an inverse agonist at the H3 receptor.


      Plenary Lectures

      Patrizio Blandina (Italy)
      Functional implications of Histaminergic Neurons Heterogeneity
       
      Nick Carruthers (USA)
      Translational approaches towards the identification of a histamine H3 receptor antagonist and its’ clinical evaluation for the symptomatic treatment of allergic rhinitis
       
      Jorge Brioni (USA) (given by M. Cowart)
      Discovery of Novel Agents for the Treatment of CNS Disorders
       
      Marlon Cowart (USA)
      Histamine H3 antagonist properties and efficacy in CNS models
       
      Steve Liu (The Netherlands)
      Histamine H3 and H4 receptors – therapeutic opportunities in airway and inflammatory diseases


      Symposia

      EHRS Young Investigator Award

      E.S.K. Assem Memorial

      Sir James Black Session


      Stimulating sessions

      • COST ACTION Histamine H4 receptors
      • General Histamine topics
      • Histamine in the Brain
      • H3 receptors in the periphery
      • Histamine in the Brain II
      • COST ACTION Histamine Medicinal Chemistry I
      • Histamine Medicinal Chemistry II


    • Travel bursaries:

      Student travel bursaries of 500€ each sponsored by
         

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

      Konstantinos Kyriakidis (Greece)
      Leonardo Munari (Italy)
      Maria Sundvik (Finland)


    • EHRS Young Investigator Award:

      These awards were this year sponsored by Cambridge Research Biochemicals and were given to very talented young scientists.

      Results of the EHRS Young Investigator Awards 2010

      First prize:    
      Christelle Anaclet   Complementary and Synergistic Control of Wakefulness by Orexins and Histamine, Demonstrated Using a Double Knockout Mouse Model.
       
      Second prize:    
      Saara Nuutinen   Histamine and Dopamine in Alcohol Addiction: Friends or Enemies?
       
      Third prize:    
      Natasha Lethbridge   Major Human Histamine H3 Receptor Isoforms Display Pharmacological Difference


    • Poster prizes:

      Results of the Poster Competition
      Winner   P1
           
          Tommas J. Ellender, Icnelia Huerta-Ocampo, Marco Capogna & J. Paul BolamMiriam Walter
           
          Histaminergic modulation of striatal function
           
      2nd   P19
          Linda J Kay and Peter T Peachell
           
          Paradoxical effects of the EP2 agonist, Butaprost, on histamine release form human mast cells
           
      3rd   P24
          Roland Geyer,Igel, P., Bernhardt, G., Buschauer, A.
           
          Synthesis and Structure-Activity Relationships of Conformationally Constrained Cyanoguanidines: Potent and Selective Histamine H4 Receptor Agonists


    • WEBSITE:

      Grateful thanks to Anna Gilicze, Hungary, a student in the group of András Falus, who is the webmaster. She has worked very well and quickly. The latest NEWS is regularly updated. Paul Chazot is still responsible for the scientific part of the website. 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 meetings before 1980.


    • PROCEEDINGS of the EHRS DURHAM MEETING:

      The proceedings of the meeting will be published in the journal Inflammation Research. We decided at the General Assembly meeting to publish our proceedings from now on as abstracts but peer reviewed, as before.


    • ASKING FOR PICTURES:

      I would like to ask those present at the EHRS 2010 meeting in Durham for photos. Have you any photos and in particular the bursary winners, Young Investigator Award Winners 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 at Anita.Sydbom@ki.se


    • NEXT MEETING:

      Our next meeting will be our 40th meeting and therefore a special one. It will be in Sochi, Russia, by the Black Sea, 11-15 May 2011, and organised by Roman Khanferyan. The website for this meeting will be active soon.


      With all the best wishes

      See you in Sochi next year!


      Anita Sydbom
      President EHRS



    2010 Nov 27th



      Dear All,


    • This wonderful talk by Professor Jean-Charles Schwartz entitled "Histamine the neurotransmitter in the brain: from discovery to novel psychotropic drugs: a short history dedicated to the memory of Sir James Black (1924-2010)" delivered at the University of Durham as part the 39th EHRS conference which I hosted in July, is now available for all EHRS, COST Action BM0806 and BNA members to view and use for Education purposes etc (link below). This recording was a generous gift from the newly funded Newton on line Film company based here in the North East of England.

      As you see there are various other recording on various science topics for your interest - accessible from this web link


      Enjoy

      Paul Chazot




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