ANR2010

Scientific Programme Information


The final version of the Scientific programme can now be found here. There may still be minor typing errors despite all our efforts to minimise mistakes. Additional information on the special Clinical Session, Tuesday, Nurses Session, Tuesday and Chrities Session, Wednesday will be available at registration. All abstracts will be available in the Abstract book at registration and displayed on the website when the meeting opens.

The majority of presentations is selected among submitted abstracts and will be delivered as oral or poster presentations. In addition there are Scientific Workshops, a special series of lectures “The Road to Stockholm and Beyond” presented by four Nobel Laureates, a Neuroblastoma Update Course, as well as several subcommittee meetings and specific focused sessions.

Oral sessions, plenary and parallel
Oral sessions will be held by specially invited speakers, and by participants of the conference whom have submitted high-rated abstracts.

Instructions for speakers in plenary and parallel sessions

Poster Sessions
All posters will be displayed for the duration of the conference. Special time is set aside for poster viewing only, and presenting authors of the abstracts in focus are asked to stand by their posters at this time.

Instructions for poster presentations

Instructions for selected poster presentations

Times and dates for authors to be present at posters


Neuroblastoma Update Course
Organised by Professor Andrew Pearson (UK) and Professor Susan Cohn (USA) on Monday June 21st. This course will provide updated information and allow for discussion, both clinical and pre-clinical, and is open for everyone. Registering is required, and a small fee applies. (The course fee is included when purchasing a daycard for Monday June 21st.) For more detailed information about the content of the course, please click here.

Scientific Workshops
The workshops are open for all delegates. However, the principle “first come – first served” applies, so take your seat on time! For workshops 1 and 2 pre-registration is necessary in order to aquire lunch, and this is done in the registration form.

Workshop 1, Monday June 21st
Hypoxia, Tumor Stem Cells and Vascularization (pre-registration necessary)

Workshop 2, Monday June 21st
Micro-RNA and Neuroblastoma (pre-registration necessary)

Workshop 3, Tuesday June 22nd
Genome-wide Sequencing

Workshop 4, Wednesday June 23th
Novel Therapies
 
The Road to Stockholm and Beyond
We are proud to have Nobel Prize Laureates lecturing in the Conference on the Theme “The Road to Stockholm and Beyond”: Professors Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Bengt Samuelsson, Harald zur Hausen, and Mario Capecchi. 

Nurses Special Session
Organised by the Nurses´Committee: Lisa Burström, Pernilla Pergert, Karin Enskär, and Eva Turup on Tuesday June 22nd. Open to all nurses and other delegates.

Subcommittee meetings
All subcommittees will have the possibility to meet in one of the many meeting rooms in the Conference Centre. The individuals invited to these meetings will be notified.