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6 May 2008
Notification of Acceptances
26 May 2008
Early Registration Cut-off Date
9 June 2008
Late breaking Abstract Submission Date
2 July 2008
Pre & Post Congress Tours
2 July 2008
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2 July 2008
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9 July 2008
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9 July 2008
Accommodation Deposit deadline
9-10 August 2008
Postgraduate Weekend Courses
10-14 August 2008
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With thanks to
SIR PETER MORRIS
Professor Sir Peter Morris, an Australian and a graduate of the University of Melbourne, is Nuffield Professor of Surgery Emeritus and a Fellow of Balliol College, and former Chairman of the Department of Surgery and Director of the Oxford Transplant Centre, University of Oxford, positions which he held from 1974 to 2001. He then became President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England from 2001 to 2004.
He now serves as Director of the Centre for Evidence in Transplantation at the Royal College of Surgeons and the University of London, where he is an Honorary Professor. He also serves as Chairman of the British Heart Foundation and a number of scientific boards and is President of the Medical Protection Society. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and the Academy of Medical Sciences in the UK and in the USA is a Foreign Member of both the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.
He has been awarded numerous Honorary Fellowships, including those of the American Surgical Association, the American College of Surgeons, German Surgical Society, Japanese Surgical Society, the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Ireland, Glasgow and Australasia and the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London, Edinburgh and Canada., as well as an Honorary DSc of Imperial College, London and the University of Hong Kong. He has served as a visiting Professor in some 50 institutions and delivered over 30 eponymous lectures worldwide.
His professional scientific career has revolved around transplantation and transplantation biology, with a major interest in the immune response to histocompatibility antigens and its suppression. His many contributions include the description of cytotoxic antibodies after transplantation and the definition of autoantibodies in potential recipients of transplants, the induction of tolerance to allografts in experimental models, the role of matching for HLA in renal transplantation and the development of pancreatic islet transplantation. In addition to his work in transplantation, in the earlier part of his career he made many contributions to the knowledge of the association between HLA and disease, as well as playing a major part in the early anthropological studies of HLA around the Pacific Rim. He has received a number of prizes for his work, the most prestigious of which are the Lister Medal and the Medawar Prize. His clinical interests have been in transplantation and vascular surgery. He is a former President of The Transplantation Society, the British Transplantation Society, the European Surgical Association, the International Surgical Society and the British Society of Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics. He is the editor of Kidney Transplantation: Principles and Practice, shortly to go into its 6th edition and the widely acclaimed Oxford Textbook of Surgery, which is in its 2nd edition. In 1996 he was knighted by the Queen for services to medicine and in 2004 was made a Companion of the Order of Australia for services to medical sciences.
Professor Peter Doherty AC FAA FRS Laureate Professor
Professor Peter Doherty shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1996 with Swiss
colleague Rolf Zinkernagel, for their discovery of how the immune system recognises virusinfected
cells. He was Australian of the Year in 1997, and has since been commuting
between St Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis and the Department of
Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Melbourne. His research is mainly in the
area of defence against viruses. He regularly devotes time to delivering public lectures,
writing articles for newspapers and magazines and participating in radio discussions.
Peter Doherty graduated from the University of Queensland in Veterinary Science and became a veterinary officer. Moving to Scotland, he received his PhD from the University of Edinburgh Medical School. He is the first person with a veterinary qualification to win a Nobel Prize.
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