Program

Wednesday, February 15, 2012
8:00 am to 8:30 am Morning lecture
Session 1:         10:30 am to 10:30 am Lipotoxicity in diabetes
Session 2: 11:00 am to 1:00 pm Immunobiology of lipotoxicity
Session 3:             2:30 to 4:30 pm     Therapeutic beta cells
Evening: 5:00 to 8:00 pm Welcome dinner, lecture, and presentation of award winners
   
Thursday, February 16, 2012
8:00 am to 8:30 am     Morning lecture
Session 1: 8:30 to 10:30 am Controversies in diabetes immunology (1)
Session 2: 11:00 am to 1:00 pm Controversies in diabetes immunology (2)
Debate: 2:30 to 3:30 pm Insufficient biomarkers and endpoints doomed recent Phase III clinical trials
Session 3:  4:00 to 6:00 pm Advances in islet transplantation
Evening: 6:00 to 8:00 pm Poster session
   
Friday, February 17, 2012
Session 1: 8:00 to 10:00 am Obesity and bariatric surgery
Session 2: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm Advances in diabetes complications
Debate: 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease
Session 3: 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm Beta cell development
Session 4:     5:30 pm to 7:30 pm Islet imaging
Saturday, February 18, 2012
8:00 am to 8:50 am     Morning lectures
Session 1: 8:50 to 10:25 am New technologies and insulins for type 1 diabetes
Session 2: 10:45 am to 12:45 pm Major controversies in clinical diabetology
Session 3: 1:00 to 3:00 pm Incretin therapy

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