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The Capri Science Conferences

Nature Publishing Group and the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche of Italy announce a new series of meetings - the Capri Science Conferences - on biomedicine - to be held in Italy on the island of Capri. We have created this new series to present and stimulate discussion on translational research.

Each meeting will bring together a select group of leading scientists in an attempt to enhance the translation of new discoveries into novel therapies.

Meetings will be held annually in the Fall and the topics determined by the Scientific Advisory Board.

EXECUTIVE BOARD

  • Chair: Gerry Melino (University of Rome, Italy)
  • Sue Deeley (Nature Publishing Group, USA)
  • Gianluigi Condorelli (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy)

SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD

  • Andrea Ballabio (Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine, Italy)
  • Jiri Bartek (Danish Cancer Society Institute of Cancer Biology, Denmark)
  • Aaron Ciechanover (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
  • Ritu Dhand (Nature, UK)
  • H. Robert Horvitz (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
  • Douglas R. Green (St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, USA)
  • Sudhir Gupta (University of California Irvine, USA)
  • Scott Lowe (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA)
  • Tak W. Mak (Campbell Family Institute for Breast Cancer Research, Canada)
  • Pierluigi Nicotera (MRC Toxicology Unit, UK)
  • Tullio Pozzan (University Padua / Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy)

Nature Publishing Group

Nature Publishing Group (NPG) is a division of Macmillan Publishers Ltd, dedicated to serving the academic, professional scientific and medical communities. NPG’s flagship title, Nature, was first published in 1869. Other publications include Nature research journals, Nature Reviews, Nature Clinical Practice, and a range of prestigious academic journals including society-owned publications. NPG also provides news content through news@nature.com and scientific career information through Naturejobs. The company has a growing conference series.

NPG is a global company with headquarters in London and offices in New York, San Francisco, Washington DC, Boston, Tokyo, Paris, Munich, Hong Kong, Melbourne, Delhi, Mexico City and Basingstoke. For more information, please go to http://www.nature.com.

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche

The Consiglio Nazionale delle Richerche (CNR) (National Research Council), founded in 1923, is the leading basic research organization in Italy. An Italian national public organization, CNR is committed to carry out, promote, spread, transfer and improve research activities in the main sectors of knowledge growth and its applications. More than 4000 researchers work in the Council’s 100 research institutes which cover both the sciences and humanities.
http://www.cnr.it

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