LUNA
LUNA 2nd. Annual Meeting
The 2nd. annual meeting in LUNA will be held on 16 December 2011 from 10 to 16.
We will have the pleasure of listen to four excellent scientists presenting their knowledge and recent research results within firstly; dynamic low level gene expression and its relation to embryonic stem cell differentiation, secondly, transgenic minipigs mimicking human artherosclerosis, thirdly, the consequences of imbalance in the complement activation system on autoimmune diseases and lastly the role of dis-regulated mannose binding lectin in diabetic vascular complications.
The full programme is available here, including abstracts.
LUNA 1st Annual Meeting
The first Annual Meeting in LUNA auspices was held 3 December 2010 in Silkeborg. More pictures are available under news.
What is LUNA?
LUNA is the acronym for “The Lundbeck Foundation Nanomedicine Centre for Individualized Management of Tissue Damage and Regeneration”.
The centre is doing research in the use of nanomedicine for new drug design, drug delivery, bioimaging and tissue regeneration to support individualized prevention, early diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular and musculoskeletal diseases.
The centre is headed jointly by the iNANO Centre (Aarhus University) and Aarhus University Hospital.
Participating institutions include also
Department of Chemistry (AU),
Department of Molecular Biology (AU),
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery (AUH),
Institute of Anatomy (SUN),
Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery (AUH),
Centre of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience (CFIN) (AUH),
Department of Rheumatology (AUH),
Institute of Clinical Medicine (AUH),
Medical Department M (Diabetes and Endocrinology) (AUH),
Department of Endocrinology and Medical Biotechnology (OUH) and
Institute of Medical Microbiology and Immunology (SUN).
