Annual Congress Munich 2006

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Pulmonary hypertension at the crossroads of science and clinical medicine

Symposium
Chairs: A. Dinh-Xuan (Paris, France), O. Eickelberg (Giessen, Germany)
Aims: At the end of the symposium, the audience will be up-to-date with recent developments in pulmonary hypertension. The symposium will:
• integrate novel information from the basic and clinical sciences;
• present novel ideas on how to integrate new findings into pathobiological models of pulmonary hypertension. Target audience: Clinicians, surgeons, physicians, scientists.

The pathobiology and genetics of pulmonary hypertension N. Morrell (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Update on current treatment options of pulmonary hypertension M. Humbert (Clamart, France)
Gene therapeutic approaches: from stem cell therapy to gene delivery D. Stewart (Toronto, Canada)