Meetings and Events

SEPTEMBER

September 24–26, 1998: Alps-Adria '98 The 5th Alps-Adriatic International Congress of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine will be held in the Spa Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic. Organized by the Czech Society of Clinical Biochemistry under the auspices of FESCC, Contact: Secretariat: 5th Alps-Adriatic Congress, c/o Dept. Clin. Biochemistry, First Medical Faculty, Charles University, Karlovo nám. 32, CZ-121 11 Praha 2, Czech Republic

September 26–29, 1998: 2nd Annual Symposium on Solution Interaction of Macromolecules, sponsored by Beckman Coulter, will be held at The Renaissance® Madison Hotel in Seattle, Washington. http://www.beckmancoulter.com Phone: [phone] Fax: [phone] Outside U.S.: Phone: [phone] Fax: [phone]. SEE WORLD NEWS FOR MORE INFORMATION.

OCTOBER

October 11–16, 1998: The 8th Asian-Pacific Congress of Clinical Biochemistry—The 8th APCCB will be held in Kuala Lampur, Malaysia. This event will be organized by the Malaysian Association of Clinical Biochemistry (MACB) and will be held under the auspices of the Asian-Pacific Federation of Clinical Biochemistry (APFCB). The venue of the Congress will be the Putra World Trade Centre, the formost convention centre within the city. For Further information, please contact: The Secretariat, 8th APCCB, Institute for Medical Research, Jalan Pahang 50588 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Fax: = 60-3-7555418, web-site: http://imr.gov.my/apccb98.htm, Email: [e-mail]

October 16, 1998: Diabetes Disease Management—Opportunities for the Laboratory, sponsored by AACC, will be held at the Sheraton Newport Beach Hotel in Newport Beach, California. Phone: [phone] Fax: [phone]. SEE WORLD NEWS FOR MORE INFORMATION.

October 26–27, 1998: Developing Effective Assays will be held at the Warwick Hotel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The conference will focus on case studies that address time constraints, limited resources, new technologies, new reagents, novel methods, and major goals during scale-up and verification, miniaturization, optimization, and automation. Contact Kristen Langevin at IBC USA Conferences Phone: [phone] extension 257 Fax: [phone] Email: [e-mail].

NOVEMBER

November 3–4, 1998: 8th Annual Clinical Chemistry Forum- “Issues in Genetic Testing,” sponsored by American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) and Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP), will be held at the Washington National Airport Hilton in Crystal City, Virginia. Phone: [phone] Fax: [phone], SEE WORLD NEWS FOR MORE INFORMATION.

November 18–22, 1998: MEDICA 1998 Düsseldorf, Germany. For more information contact: Messe Düsseldorf GmbH, P. O. Box 10 10 06 D-40001 Düsseldorf, Germany. Phone: [phone] Fax: [phone]. Web site: http://www.medica.de.

November 19, 1998: ECLM Symposium: Perspectives of point-of-care testing ECLM will organize the symposium at its annual council meeting during the Symposium at MEDICA in Düsseldorf, Germany. Contact: Prof. Dr. R. Haeckel, Zentralkrankenhaus St. Jürgen-Strasse, D-28357 Bremen, Germany, Phone: [phone] Fax: [phone].

November 20, 1998: Consolidated and Integrated Automation Systems The symposium will take place at the Congress Center Düsseldorf, Room M, during the MEDICA trade fair. Chairman: Prof. Dr. med. Georg Hoffmann Email: [e-mail], Phone: [phone], Fax: [phone], http://www.trillium.de

JANUARY 1999

January 30-February 3, 1999: LabAutomation99, The world's premier conference on laboratory automation and robotics, hosted by the international non-profit organization, The Association for Laboratory Automation, will meet at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina, San Diego, California. Contact Conal Timoney: Phone [phone] Fax [phone] Email [e-mail]. Register instantly at our Web Site: http://labautomation.org.