Spring 2006 Symposium


Upper Airway Disease: Clinical and Research Perspectives

Thursday, May 4th, 2006

Johns Hopkins Asthma and Allergy Center Auditorium

Johns Hopkins University

5501 Hopkins Baview Circle     Baltimore, MD 21224

Organizers: John A. Hey, Ph.D., Schering-Plough
Haruko Mizoguchi, Ph.D., Proctor and Gamble

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8:30 – 9:00 am

Continental Breakfast and Registration

9:00 – 12:50 pm

Morning Session

 

· Physiology of Nasal Congestion, and Evaluation and Monitoring of Nasal Patency

J. Corey - Univ of Chicago

·Targeting Syk Kinase for Allergic Airway Disease

E. Masuda, Rigel

· Teaching the Airways New Tricks through Immunomodulations.

T. Barrett, Lovelace Inst, NM

· New Insights into the Mechanisma of Histamine-Induced Inflammation in the Nasal Mucosa

Thomas Taylor-Clark, Johns Hopkins

12:50 – 1:50 pm

Lunch provided

1:50 – 4:30 pm

Afternoon Session

 

· Upper Airways Infections

D. Proud, U. Calgary

· Upper Airway Disease and Non-Airway Syndrome Link

J. Baraniuk, Georgetown University

· Mechanisms of Nasal Decongestion

Michel Corboz/John Hey, Schering-Plough

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