Quarterly Newsletter
No 7 November 2007
Letter from the Chair
Coordinating
Research in Europe:
a strategic role for
the EU
Streamlining
Progress from
Innovation to
Implementation
Pharmacogenomics:
the new frontier in
combating complex
diseases
EU Diabetes Working
Group: health and
migration in the EU
News from the EU
World Diabetes Day
Year of the Child
14th November 2007
EURADIA Partner
Profile: Servier
Conferences and
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Letter
From the Chair
Dear Members and Friends,
The last couple of months have been particularly busy. EURADIA
members have held major meetings and I am delighted to report that
attendance has beaten all records with a parallel increase in the
number and quality of presentations. I was also pleased to note that the
European Commission has been involved in some of these meetings,
reflecting a continuing and growing interest in diabetes.
In October, EURADIA and other members of the Alliance co-hosted a
diabetes session at the European Health Forum Gastein. EURADIA
was responsible for the research component of this session and you
will find a summary of the presentations in this Newsletter. The
“Diabetes Matters” session was a success at many levels: it allowed
diabetes to feature on the main programme of this important event; the
session covered diverse aspects of the diabetes “space”, from research
to patient education, as well as societal and political issues; the
“diabetes family” presented a common front setting a great example for
the future. I should like to thank Tony O’Sullivan, immediate past
Chairman of IDF-Europe, for his visionary leadership in making this
“family” function without sibling rivalry! Special thanks also to Lex
Herrebrugh for all his help with the organisation of Diabetes Matters at
EHFG Gastein 2007.
EURADIA continues to be active and visible in the European diabetes
research arena. We are co