Dalton Discussion 10: Applications of Metals in Medicine and Healthcare

3 - 5 September 2007, Durham University, UK 

 

Organised by the Dalton Division of the RSC.

This meeting emphasised the exciting opportunities that inorganic chemistry offers for the design of truly novel agents with novel mechanisms of action for the important role that metals play in human medicine and healthcare. Metals are essential in our diets, and have varied uses in medical practice.  

DD10 brought in excess of 120 researchers together who had an interest in metals in medicine and healthcare from a range of disciplines (inorganic chemistry, bioinorganic chemistry, biochemistry, medicinal chemistry to name a few) and researchers from academia, hospitals and industry from 19 different countries.

Themes

• Metallo-pharmaceuticals
• Imaging, diagnosis and labelling
• Design of new drugs and diagnostic agents
• Metallotherapeutics - novel mechanisms of action

Keynote Speakers

Professor Chi-Ming Che 
University of Hong Kong

Professor Trevor Hambley 
University of Sydney, Australia

Dr Simon P. Fricker
Canada

Dr Martin W. Brechbiel
National Institutes of Health, USA

Professor Helmut Mäcke
University Hospital Basel, Switzerland

Scientific Committee

Professor Peter J Sadler FRS (co-chair)
University of Edinburgh, UK 

Professor David Parker FRS (co-chair)
University of Durham, UK

Maurice Webb, UK

Dr Jonathan Rourke 
University of Warwick, UK

Dr Roberto Motterlini 
Northwick Park Institute for Medical Research, UK