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Founding |
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| The birth of the Endo-Neuro Meeting in 1997 had a delivery time of years in which NWO-MW Working Groups ('Deelwerkgemeenschappen') organized annual retreats to discuss the scientific progress of the program of its group members. The endocrinologists of the groups 'Regulation of hypophysial functions’ and ‘Hormones and reproduction’ did this in collaboration with the Netherlands Society of Endocrinology (NVE). These meetings were always a great success, and an guiding example for other Working Groups of NWO-MW. | ||||||||||||
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NWO-MW however reorganized, one of the results being that the Working Groups played no key role in the grant evaluation of new research projects. A decrease in active participation at their usually single dicipline- or topic-related retreats was the result, and consequently the eager to organize these meetings faded away. In 1997 however Fred van Leeuwen, at that time member of the board of the NVE, thought of organizing a retreat new style as a cluster of old style retreats in one 3-day meeting. As an neuroendocrinologist working at the Netherlands Institute for Brain Research, he wished to include the neuroscience as well.
Fred van Leeuwen contacted Fernando Lopes da Silva, chairman of the
Dutch Neurofederation with his ideas as well as Gerard Boer,
active as co-chairman of the NWO-MW Working Group 'Molecular and cellular
neurosciences'. |
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| First meeting in 1997 | ||||||||||||
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The first Endo-Neuro Meeting of 2-4 June 1997
(EN1997) described its goal as to 'visualize the importance of medical scientific research
in an attempt to point out the need for increased financial stimulation through
the grant system of NWO' (from introductory text in program booklet). A
series of tandem sessions was therefore organized that showed fundamental and
clinical progress in subfields of endocrinology, neuroendocrinology and
neurosciences. For this purpose also many internationally recognized scientists
were invited as keynote speaker. Poster sessions were initiated and ment to serve the exchange of information about the progress within the NWO-MW Working Groups as previously done during the retreats. The EN1997 was finally organized as a combined meeting of the various NWO-MW Working Groups in endocrinology and neurosciences, the Neurofederation and the NVE and EKN (Society of Experimental and Clinical Neuroscience), the latter organizations both members of the Neurofederation. Parkhotel 'De Branding' in Doorwerth was the venue. |
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The 3-day meeting in 1997 was well received and visited by 230
scientists. Eight sessions and two parallel sessions composed the program for which 9 foreign speakers
and 10 national speakers were
invited. The meeting program also included the presentation of the Organon Prize
for Endocrinology Lecture by P.J. Lucassen (Amsterdam) and the first Dutch Brain Foundation
Lecture by D. Lindhout (Rotterdam) on 'Neuroregeneration: from gene to
pathogenesis'. Endocrinology and neuroscience poster sessions accommodated respectively 30 and 58 presentations. |
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Increasing
success
After the success of the first meeting NVE and
Neurofederation decided to continue the organization annually. NWO-MW remained
happy to financially garantee the organization. An
ENmeeting
website was introduced (www.enmeeting.nl, presently www.enpmeeting.nl). 
Growth of number of participants of the Endo-Neuro Meetings since 1997 |
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The participation number of the Dutch Endo-Neuro Meetings grew annually. The 5th Meeting in 2001 received 525 participants, had a total of 35 oral sessions with 138 speakers from which 32 were invited scientists from abroad, and a total number of 112 poster presentations. Some photographic impressions are published on the 5th Meeting website.
The 6th Endo-Neuro Meeting became the
1st Endo-Neuro-Psycho
Meeting in 2002, called ENP2002. The Psycho stands for the additional
fourth day with sessions on cognitive and behavioral neuroscience. This
extension of the program was a long wish of the board of the Neurofederation
since cognitive and behavioral neuroscience receives a large and growing
interest in the Dutch neuroscience community. |
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| People and previous meetings | ||||||||||||
| The people that organized Dutch Endo-Neuro Meeting'/Endo-Neuro-Psycho Meeting since 1997: | ||||||||||||
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The ENP2006 will again be a 4-day meeting. On day 1 and
2 the endocrinologist meet, on day 2 and 3 the molecular and cellular
neuroscientists, and on day 3 and 4 the cognitive and behavioral neuroscientists. Day 2 and 3
are days with overlapping themes.
Meeting venue is the Golden Tulip Parkhotel 'Doorwerth'
in Doorwerth, dates are 6-9 June 2006. Available information on the ENP2006 and its program can be found on the webpages of www.enpmeeting.nl/enp/ENP2006 on which most details will appear in February 2006. |
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