AEK-AIO-CONGRESS

January 19, 2005
More than 140 Poster Abstracts have already been submitted by participants from 22 countries on 5 continents.
Due to continuing strong demand the deadline for online poster abstract submission was extended until January 30, 2005.

February 6, 2005
The program is close to final now. With 113 speakers and chairs and more than 200 submitted abstracts the congress will be the largest
one to bring togehter experimental and clinical cancer research in Germany this year.

February 7, 2005
Important new discoveries just published or about to appear in leading journals like Nature and Cell will be discussed at the congress, e.g. Eugen Kerkhoff will report about the molecular function of the breast tumor associated protein Spir, work just published in Nature last week ("Drosophila Spir is an actin nucleation factor", Nature 433, 382-388).

March 16, 2005
More than 550 participants from 30 countries were counted at the end of the congress.

The congress ended with the awards for the best posters. The following posters were selected and received a price sponsored by Faustus GmbH, Leipzig

1. Price
PH-12 Synergistic induction of apoptosis in acute lymphatic leukemia by VPA and dexamethasone
Alexandra Groß, Ingrid Bartsch, Marc Buchwald and Thorsten Heinzel
mailto:a.gross@em.uni-frankfurt.de

2. Price
PH-14 Neovascular Tageting by EndoTAG-2 (MBT-0312) inhibits Growth of Subcutaneous Mouse Tumors
Boris Brill et al.
mailto:brill@em.uni-frankfurt.de

3. Price
PC-19 Plant material used in African traditional medicine shows antineoplastic activity in vitro and in vivo
Cristina Voss, Ergül Eyol und Martin R. Berger
mailto:c.voss@dkfz.de