Our Common Future

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Session 1
Global Health and Molecular Medicine I
 

Date

PeriodProgrammeSpeaker

3.11.2010
(Wednesday)

Hannover,
Exhibition Grounds











09.00-09.15

Opening

Axel Haverich
Hannover Medical School, Germany

09.15-11.00

Keynote Lecture

Cancer and Infectious Diseases in Africa - a Medical and Demographical Reality

Chair: Axel Haverich

Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng
Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana

Keynote Lecture

Infectious Diseases - Effects of Innovative Counter Attacks on Global Health

Rudi Balling
University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

11.00-11.30

Coffee Break

11.30-12.30

Keynote Lecture

Cancer - a Global Vision for Prevention and Cure

Otmar D. Wiestler
German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

12.30-13.30

Lunch Break

13.30-15.00

Workshop 1.1

Infectious Diseases - Molecular
Research - Global Effects

Chair: Rudi Balling

Dionicia Gamboa
Instituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt, Lima, Peru (OCF Fellow)

Astrid Westendorf
University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany (GYF Fellow)

Julia Bandow
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany (GYF Fellow)

Workshop 1.2

Cancer - From Molecular
Research to Improved Global
Health

Chair: Michael Manns
Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Andreas Trumpp
German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Tim Ripperger
Hannover Medical School, Germany (OCF Fellow)

Stefan Kasper
Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany (GYF Fellow)

15.00-15.30

Coffee Break

15.30-17.00

Workshop 1.1 (continued) 

Infectious Diseases - Molecular
Research - Global Effects

Petra Gastmeier
Charité, Berlin, Germany

Ntie Kang Fidele
University of Douala/ University of Buea, Cameroon

Constance Georgina Walyaro
Citron Wood Foundation, Nairobi, Kenya (OCF Fellow)

Workshop 1.2 (continued)

Cancer - From Molecular
Research to Improved Global
Health

Hans Hofstraat
Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven, Netherlands

Kai Stühler
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany (GYF Fellow)

Perihan Nalbant
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany (GYF Fellow

17.00-17.15

Coffee Break

17.15-18.00

Closing Plenary

Our Chromosome Ends: How do they affect Health and Disease and can we change them?

Chairs: Axel Haverich, Karl Lenhard Rudolph

Elizabeth Blackburn
University of California, San Francisco, USA

Session 10
Global Health and Molecular Medicine II
 

Date

PeriodProgrammeSpeaker

6.11.2010
(Saturday)

Essen, Philharmonic Concert Hall














09.00-09.15

Opening

Karl Lenhard Rudolph
Universität Ulm

09.15-11.00

Keynote Lecture

Can Human Life Expectancy Rise Dramatically?

Chair: Karl Lenhard Rudolph

Aubrey de Grey
SENS Foundation, Cambridge, UK

Keynote Lecture

Development in Human Health and Life Expectancy in Developed and Non-Developed Countries

Colin D. Mathers
World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Keynote Lecture

How do Changes in Human Longevity Impact on our Demography?

Leonid Gavrilov and Natalia Gavrilova
University of Chicago, USA

11.00-11.30

Coffee Break

11.30-12.30

Keynote Lecture

Stem Cells in Aging and Cancer - New Targets for Interventions?

 

Chair: Hans R. Schöler
Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Münster. Germany

Irving Weissmann
Stanford University, USA

 

Keynote Lecture

Equitable Global Health

Stefan Raunser
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany (GYF Fellow)

Adina Rusu
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany (GYF Fellow)

12.30-13.45

Lunch Break

13.45-15.15

Workshop 10.1 

Chair: Björn Schumacher
University of Cologne, Germany

Co-Chair: Luis Miguel Guachalla
Ulm University, Germany (OCF Fellow)

Molecular Mechanisms of Aging

Speakers:
Jan Hoeijmakers
Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands

Tom Kirkwood
Newcastle University, UK

15.15-15.45

Coffee Break

15.45-17.15

Workshop 10.2

Emerging Therapies

Chair: Irving Weissmann

Co-Chair: Hannes Klump
University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany (GYF Fellow)

Speakers:
Karl Lenhard Rudolph

Hans R. Schöler

17.15-17.30

Coffee Break

17.30-18.30

Closing Plenary

Panel Discussion:
Increase in Life Expectancy, Health Span: Effects on Health Care Costs and Effects of Social Status

Chair: Colin D. Mathers

Introduction:
Liming Cai
Office ot the Actuary, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Baltimore, USA

Further Panel Discussants:
Anja Hartmann
Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany (GYF Fellow)

Jan Hoeijmakers

Irving Weissman

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