FL "Gene Environment Interaction in Chronic Disease" (GENESIS)

List of Activities

The conference focused on addressing the main concerns expressed by members of the scientific community working on chronic inflammatory disease with the aim to generate problem-solving recommendations. These recommendations will be presented in a Final Report which will be published in late summer 2011 and presented at a launch conference in early autumn.

Professor Dirk Haller and Professor Harald Renz chaired this conference aimed to challenge to a high level audience the recommendations produced at the occasion of three strategic workshops, organised in the frame of the Forward Look exercise (see below).

  • Strategic Workshops:
    Princesa Sofia Gran Hotel, Barcelona, Spain

Workshop 1: Intrinsic mechanisms in Chronic Disease
19-20 October 2010
Chaired by Professor Dirk Haller (Technical University Munich, Germany) and co-chair by Professor Per Brandtzaeg (Oslo University Hospital, Norway)

Workshop 2: Extrinsic mechanisms in chronic disease
20-21 October 2010
Chaired by Professor Erika von Mutius (Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich, Germany) and co-chaired by Professor Ingo Autenrieth (Universitätsklinikum Tübingen, Germany)

Workshop 3: Therapy and Prevention – Emerging Concepts
21-22 October 2010
Chaired by Professor Harald Renz (Philipps-University Marburg, Germany) and co-chaired by Professor William O. Cookson (Imperial College London, UK)


The final booklet for all three workshops can be downloaded here.

  • Kick-off meeting 
    Technische Universität München, Germany, 20 January 2010