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The IANA and the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on
Aging are pleased to announce a jointly sponsored symposium entitled:
“Nutritional Modulators of Physical Function and Aging”. The meeting
will be held in Boston on November 1 and 2, 2007.
The overall goal for the meeting will be to introduce the topic of
nutritional influences on physical functioning
in older people and to bring together nutritional scientists,
geriatricians, gerontologists, students, and other health professionals
to discuss the state of the art of this important topic. There will be
scheduled plenary
sessions, a keynote address, and poster presentations. Topics will
include: protein and amino acid nutrition and
performance; role of vitamin D on muscle health; and mineral nutrition
and physical functioning. The
conference host hotel will be the Courtyard by Marriot Boston Tremont
Hotel (Ph: 617-426-1400).
For additional information please contact nutrfuncmtg@tufts.edu
or visit the meeting website at http://www.hnrc.tufts.edu/new/IANA_Conference_2007.php
The 1st conference Clinical Trials on Alzheimer’s Disease (CTAD) will take place in Montpellier on 17th -19th September, 2008. This conference is jointly organized by the Montpellier and Toulouse European Alzheimer’s Disease Consortium (EADC) Centers. The aims of the meeting are to bring together the current leaders in clinical trials in Alzheimer’s Disease to discuss new results, drugs in development, and future methodological issues (disease modifi cation, outcomes, biomarkers, health economics). A Clinical Trials Training Workshop will be organized. This will be a high-level training course designed for investigators and clinical research assistants involved in clinical trials.
For additional information please visit the meeting website at http://CTAD2008.ams.fr
The 3rd IANA Symposium on Nutriiton and Alzheimer will focuse on Nutrition, Frailty, Exercise and Cognitive Decline and Alzheimer will take place in Albuquerque, New-Mexico, USA at the Hyatt Regency Tamaya Ressort on 1th -2th August, 2008. The aims of the meeting are to bring together the current leaders in nutrition, physcial exercise, sarcopenia, frailty and Alzheimer’s Disease to discuss new results, interventions in development, and future methodological issues (primary and secondary preventive trials, weight loss prevention, sarcopenia new trials). For additional information please visit the meeting website at http://www.serdi-fr.com/ABQ.htm
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