COST Open Public Lectures
- Kostelidou K. COST - a fast and flexible mechanism to fund scientific networking in Europe and beyond. INVITED LECTURE - COST Athens Open Forum “Scientific networking in the service of biomedicine and society”, Athens, Greece, 6.11.2009
- Kyriakidis D. Materialisation of European research policy - Difficulties in Greek research. COST Athens Open Forum “Scientific networking in the service of biomedicine and society”, Athens, Greece, 6.11.2009
- Schwartz JC. scheduled for the Joint WG1-4 conference and 39th EHRS meeting, Durham University, UK, 21-25 April 2010
- Tiligada E. New drug targets in inflammatory disorders: from bench to bedside. The COST BM0806 paradigm. COST Athens Open Forum “Scientific networking in the service of biomedicine and society”, Athens, Greece, 6.11.2009
Other outreach activities
- Close collaboration with the European Histamine Research Society (EHRS) in numerous scientific issues related to histamine research
A symposium on "The Histamine H3 and H4 receptors: drug targets for the anti-histamines of the 21st century" organised by the EHRS during The Federation of European Pharmacological Societies Congress in 2008 as a preliminary effort to present briefly some H4R-related. This symposium yielded a special themed issue of the British Journal of Pharmacology based on reviews and original articles from Action members on the current state-of-play in H4R research (BrJ Pharmacol Volume 157(1) May 2009, edited by Vice Chair Paul L Chazot, Durham University, UK)
Organisation of the Joint WG1-4 conference and 39th Annual EHRS meeting held on 21-25 April 2010 in Durham, UK (host: Vice-Chair Paul L Chazot, Durham University, UK). The conference is important since it will bring BM0806 members in contact with participants of the main international scientific society dedicated to the study of histamine and it will make possible for the first time for all participating members to meet and discuss collaboration opportunities (details on www.dur.ac.uk/conference.booking/details/?id=40). Notably, 40% of the abstracts submitted to this EHRS conference focus on H4R research.
- Open Forum ‘Scientific networking in the service of biomedicine and society’, Athens, Greece, 06/11/2009 (hosts: Prof. Dimitrios Kyriakidis, National Hellenic Research Foundation & Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Dr. Ekaterini Tiligada, University of Athens Medical School, GR). This very stimulating presentation of the COST programme by Action members and the Senior Science Officer Dr. Kaliopi Kostelidou was attended by about 100 students, scientists, researchers, media representatives and the general public. It was followed by discussion on a number of issues raised by the audience (the scientific report of the meeting appears in Annex 4)
- The Action has established close links with various EU Societies including BPS, FENS, EPHAR and EAACI
- Establishment of a website dedicated to the activities of the Action (www.histamineresearch.com)
