XVIInd Professor Janez Plečnik Memorial Meeting with International Symposium "Human Papillomaviruses Related Tumors", which, mainly thanks to Professor Harald zur Hausen, Nobel Award Laureate for medicine in 2008, has obtained answers to a number of questions related to development of precancerous changes and cancer of cervix, genitals, anus, head and neck and skin. Also 12 invited lecturers from the world participated in the symposium. Opening lecture "Infectious Causing Human Cancer" was given by the honoured guest Professor Harald zur Hause. The symposium as well as the Proceedings was divided into four modules: Basic sciences about HPV, Tumors of the head and neck, Precursor lesions and cancer of the anogenital region, and Vaccination and prevention. The proceedings included also17 contributions from the poster sessions with various content: from the methodology of successful detection of HPV, to the results of treatment of patients with tumors associated with HPV infection. The proceedings will be used for the undergraduate and postgraduate education of medical doctors as well as other biomedical experts.
B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting
COBISS.SI-ID: 259149312Diagnostic Pathology: Head ans Neck is organized into 10 sections including Nasal Cavity and Paranasal sinuses, Pharynx, Larynx and Trachea, Oral Cavity, Salivary Glands, Jaw, Ear and Temporal Bone, Neck, Thyroid Gland and Parathyroid Gland. The intent of the authors was to provide as comprehensive review of the head and neck pathology as possible, in a format that allows for easy access of pertinent and update information, richly illustrated, that allow the user to arrive at an accurate diagnosis.
C.01 Editorial board of a foreign/international collection of papers/book
COBISS.SI-ID: 28232153Invitation to the member of our research group to present research achievements of our group in a review lecture on differential diagnosis of chronic tubulointerstitial injury at the World Congress of Nephrology in Canada (Vancouver, April 8-12, 2011) means a special recognition. He explained the development of chronic injury on two models of different mechanisms, after severe acute inflammation (hantavirus nephropathy) and after reactivation of latent chronic infection (polyomavirus nephropathy). He additionally presented how in collaboration with Belgian investigators in the comparative study of kidney tissue samples of patients with Chinese herbs nephropathy and kidney samples of enigmatic Balkan endemic nephropathy original and well received hypothesis on common cause – nephrotoxicity of aristolochic acid was born.
B.04 Guest lecture
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