Improving Immunohistochemistry meeting set to be another success
Claire Morgan
Monday, 17 March 2008 19:17 UTC
With over 90 delegates already registered, this year’s Improving Immunohistochemistry meeting is set to be another success. The meeting is being held on April 25th at the University of Westminster, London.
“This meeting is dedicated to the technique of immunohistochemistry and in situ hybridisation. Presentations by leaders in the field are focused on the technical aspects of IHC as well as the importance of IHC in the areas of drug discovery and diagnosis. Technical and scientific presentations are interspersed with the latest developments from the leading manufacturers of IHC products”. Chair – Dr Will Howat, Cambridge Research Institute, Cancer Research UK
Speakers include Dr James Pringle (University of Leicester, UK), Dr Jeremy Skepper (Technical Director Multi-Imaging Centre, Physiology Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge), Professor Carlos Caldas (Cancer Research UK, Cambridge Research Institute, UK), Andy Postoyalko (Covance Laboratories Ltd.), Dr Kerry Jackson (Astrazeneca UK), Professor Jon D. Laman (University Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands) and James Mansfield (Biomedical Systems, CRI, Inc., USA)
Come along and enjoy the informal atmosphere! Furthermore, all delegates will receive a pdf of the proceedings book.
To book, please click here
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The feedback for this meeting was extremely good and many speakers and delegates have emailed me after the event to say how good it was. The venue were also very friendly and helpful
Everyone said on their feedback forms that they would come to this event again and we wil be running this again in london next April
Suggestions for additional meetings (If anyone knows who might want to chair any of the meetings I would be happy to take these forward)
-Beginners IHC
-Image analysis for histological samples
detecting humanised antibodies on human or monkey tissue
-cross reactivity studies
-progress in peptide research therapeuticsAbout the chair and the meeting in general
Comments as follows
“ excellent first meeting for Will, good variety of talks”
“congratulations to the chairman!”
good time schedules , appropriate length of sessions (not too long)
“good mixture of commercial and no-commercial talks”
“interesting (useful) presentations”
“perhaps a panel discussion would be possible to challenge the audience to participate more actively in the meeting?”
“The chair was very good”
“very interesting, the chair was very good”
Abut the talks
“excellent and interesting speakers, with a good range of topics”
“would have liked to hear more about imunofluorescence IHC/ISH, spectral imaging”
The venue
Everyone liked the venue and there were no comments about the lecture theatres being separate from the exhibitions
“ at times could not hear chair as he did not use the mic”
“someone wanted a loop system for hearing aids, we need to consider this at other venues”
Exhibitions
People liked the area where we had the exhibitions
All the exhibitors forms were very good and they were all very happy
That’s about it
All very good, I hope to see you all again next year
SHARA
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The next Improving Immunohistochemistry meeting is going to be held on Friday April 24 2009 at the Kennedy Lecture Theatre, UCL Institute of Child Health, London.
It will be Chaired by Dr Will Howat (Cancer Research UK).
Book now to avoid the early registration deadline by clicking here
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