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\"6623938\"<\/a>Imperial College hosted a three day Androgens 2014 conference entitled “Precision Medicines Targeting Androgens in Health and Disease”<\/a> on 17-19th September 2014.<\/p>\n

The conference, which was organised by Prof Charlotte Bevan<\/a> and Prof Simak Ali<\/a> (Cancer), was opened by the President of Imperial College, Prof Alice Gast<\/a>. The conference included speakers from USA, Australia and Europe and covered\u00a0sessions on androgens in reproductive health and disease, androgens in development and aging, androgens in cancer biology particularly prostate cancer and therapeutic targeting of androgen signalling.<\/p>\n

Speakers from Imperial College included Prof Charlotte Bevan (Cancer) and Prof Stephen Franks<\/a> (IRDB). The keynote address on the opening day was given by Prof Malcolm Parker<\/a> (IRDB).<\/p>\n

Poster Prizes: (with thanks to Faculty of 1000, Astellas and Janssen for sponsoring the awards)<\/p>\n

\u2022 Himisha Beltran
\n\u2022 F\u00e9licie Cottard
\n\u2022 Flavia Fioretti
\n\u2022 Ailsa Sita-Lumsden
\n\u2022 Lien Spans<\/p>\n

Prostate Cancer UK Travel Bursaries: (for PhD Students presenting at Androgens 2014)<\/p>\n

\u2022 Matti Annala
\n\u2022 Mahsa Azizyan
\n\u2022 Rosie Bryan
\n\u2022 F\u00e9licie Cottard
\n\u2022 James Grey
\n\u2022 Victoria Harle
\n\u2022 Dominic Jones
\n\u2022 Matias Knuuttila
\n\u2022 Aaron Leiblich
\n\u2022 J.M. Moll
\n\u2022 Amy Monaghan
\n\u2022 Kasturi Rao
\n\u2022 Ioannis Simitsidellis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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