We are pleased to announce the forthcoming 11th meeting of the Brains for Brain Foundation (B4B) .
B4B is an International Task Force(chaired by Prof Maurizio Scarpa) composed of outstanding scientists and ‘clinicians’ who are leaders in the neurological field. Together with Biotech companies they aim to facilitate joint efforts to improve the understanding of rare genetic diseases affecting and seriously damaging the brain, in particular in children.
The Foundation is particularly promoting and coordinating research projects focused on the search of biomarkers for the understanding of pathophysiological process of neurometabolic disorders. Among the more than 500 types of hereditary metabolic diseases known today, the Foundation mainly focuses its attention on a group of about 40 genetically and biochemically very well characterised diseases, called Lysosomal Storage Disorders (LSDs).
According to its traditional programme, the workshop will be held in Frankfurt, Germany, since this venue is really well connected with all the countries and facilitates the participations of people from different parts of the world.
The meeting will therefore take place at the Hotel Holiday Inn, Frankfurt from March 29th to April 1st, 2017.
As usual, the programme will contain scientific and strategic sessions in which we the following issues wlil be discussed:
1. Research achievements in the field of neurodegenerative diseases, in particular lysosomal storage disorders (LSDs) at clinical and basic science level and in the field of Blood Brain Barrier;
2. New recent advances on natural history and pathophysiology of LSDs;
3. Factors which control the entry into the brain of medicines and other therapeutic agents which may be helpful in treating central nervous system disease;
4. How B4B and the European Union might collaborate to stimulate interest on research in rare diseases, and specifically we will have a session regarding the vision, the mission and the goals of European Reference Network for hereditary metabolic diseases (MetabERN) which is lead by Maurizio and involves 69 EU nationally certified Healthcare Providers from 18 countries. And we think that B4B will surely play an important role also in this project.
5. The role of the industries in driving innovation for new therapeutic approaches for true unmet needs.
You can find a draft of the preliminary programme here.
If you wish to attend the workshop, please get in touch with Mrs Paula Caprelli (p.caprelli@jazzitaly.com) asap for your hotel arrangements.
For general enquiries or any additional required information, please get in touch with Dr. Cinzia Maria Bellettato (c.bellettato@gmail.com)