Login for PhD students at UCPH      Login for others
Oxidative stress and implications for inflammation and immune response
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3250-19-00-00 
Enrollment deadline: 01/05/2019
Date and time14.05.2019, at: 09:15 - 15.05.2019, at: 16:00
Regular seats34
Course fee2,760.00 kr.
LecturersCharlotte Menne Bonefeld
ECTS credits1.50
Contact personClaire Alberte Charasse    E-mail address: clch@sund.ku.dk
Enrolment Handling/Course OrganiserPhD administration     E-mail address: phdkursus@sund.ku.dk

Aim and content
This course is free of charge for PhD students at Danish universities (except Copenhagen Business School), and for PhD students at graduate schools in the other Nordic countries. All other participants must pay the course fee.
Anyone can apply for the course, but if you are not a PhD student, you will be placed on the waiting list for the course until enrollment deadline. After the deadline of enrollment, available seats will be allocated to students on the waiting list.

Learning objectives
A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to:

1. To understand the basic principles of oxidative stress
2. To understand the role of oxidative stress in the immune response
3. To understand the role of oxidative stress in infectious and autoimmune diseases
4. To understand cellular defense mechanisms against oxidative stress
5. To understand how targeting oxidative stress can be used in treatment


Content
The role of oxidative stress, from basic chemistry to the role in infections, autoimmune diseases and cancer to treatments targeting oxidative stress


Participants
Ph.D.-students working with oxidation, inflammation and the immune system


Relevance to graduate programmes
The course is relevant to PhD students from the following graduate programmes at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH:

Immunology and Infectious Diseases
Molecular Mechanisms of Disease
Basic Metabolic Research


Language
English

Form
Lectures

Course director
Prof. Clare Hawkins
Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, clare.hawkins@sund.ku.dk

Prof. Michael Davies
Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, davies@sund.ku.dk

Teachers
Multiple national and international experts within the field:

Dr Flavia Rezende, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany.
Prof. Clare Hawkins, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Prof. Michael Davies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Dr Katrin Schr?der, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany.
Prof. Jon Lundberg, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden.
Prof. Christian Bogdan, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Germany.
Dr Anna Klinke, Universitätsklinik der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany.
Prof. Corinne Spickett, Aston University, UK.
Dr Steen Vang Petersen, Aarhus University, Denmark.
Prof. Henrik Poulsen, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Prof. Paul Winyard, University of Exeter, UK.
Prof. Helen Griffiths, University of Surrey, UK.
Prof. Elias Arnér, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden.
Prof. Thomas Mandrup-Poulsen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Dates
14-15 of May 2019

Course location
Nielsine Nielsen Auditorium, Mærsk Tower, Panum

Registration
Please register before 15 of April 2019

Seats to PhD students from other Danish universities will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis and according to the applicable rules.
Applications from other participants will be considered after the last day of enrolment.

Note: All applicants are asked to submit invoice details in case of no-show, late cancellation or obligation to pay the course fee (typically non-PhD students). If you are a PhD student, your participation in the course must be in agreement with your principal supervisor.

Search
Click the search button to search Courses.


Course calendar
See which courses you can attend and when
JanFebMarApr
MayJunJulAug
SepOctNovDec



New courses
Courses are published regularly. High demand courses are announced in spring and autumn.


Learn which courses are announced on fixed dates