Inflammation Research Association--ninth international conference. Chemokines, signal transduction and new drugs workshops. 1-5 November 1998, Hershey, PA, USA.
The Inflammation Research Association (IRA) is an industry-led organization which was founded 18 years ago to foster communication between industrial scientists working within the broad field of inflammation. The biennial International Conferences focus on disease mechanisms and therapeutics. The meeting was divided into invited symposia in the morning, poster sessions after lunch and evening parallel workshops. On the whole, the quality and novelty of the work presented was below that of previous years and the number of registrants was reduced from the previous conference at around 370. The most interesting areas covered in this meeting were signal transduction, chemokines and the symposium on new drugs for inflammatory and allergic disease.
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Amersham Pharmacia Biotech, Amersham Place, Little Chalfont, Buckinghamshire, HP7 9NA, UK. Cathy.Phipp@uk.nycomed-amersham.com