It’s already for the fourth time, that Prof. Dr. K. Lenhard Rudolph, scientific director of the Leibniz Institute for Age Research – Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI) calls the scientific elite of international stem cell researchers to join at Else Kröner Fresenius (EKF) Symposium on Adult Stem Cells in Aging, Diseases and Cancer. Solely sponsored by the Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung and supported by the local host, the Majorana Foundation, international top researchers will exchange information on unpublished research approaches and results at Patrick M.S. Blackett Institute, located in the antique San Domenico Monastery in Sicily, Italy, from May 31st to June 3rd. Besides renowned researchers from cancer or aging institutes from the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Canada or UK, top-scientists like Thomas A. Rando (Stanford University), Elaine Fuchs (The Rockefeller University) or Steven Artandi (Stanford University) belong to the invited speakers.
“The EKF Symposium is especially attractive due to its exclusive list of attendees and the limitation on unpublished research concepts and results“, Prof. Dr. Rudolph explains. „Like this, research projects can benefit from scientific exchange, and procedures as well as results may be positively enhanced - way before results are published”. Especially for young scientists, who are granted by a travel stipend to be able to attend, the symposium may act as a scientific spring board. How relevant the Symposium’s scientific results are shows the fact that a review on 2013’s EKS was published in renowned journal Nature Cell Biology in 2014.
The Symposium
Since 2009, FLI has been organizing the international EKF Symposium every two years. Limited to 120 attendees and focused on the discussion of unpublished approaches of international top-scientists, the EKF has developed to a world-wide highlight within the scientific landscape. The Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung holds scientific symposiums on selected bio-medical topics of high public relevance and complexity, aimed at giving international experts the opportunity to discuss current results and research strategies in fast growing research areas. The implementation of these symposiums is the foundation’s answer to the increasing speed of data generation as well as the rising multidisciplinarity of research concepts wherefore an integration of knowledge is needed more than ever.
Contact
Dr. Evelyn Kästner
Leibniz Institute for Age Research – Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI)
Beutenbergstr. 11, D-07745 Jena
Tel.: +49 3641-656373, Fax: +49 3641-656351
E-Mail: presse@fli-leibniz.de
