Elsevier

Placenta

Volume 36, Supplement 1, April 2015, Pages S2-S4
Placenta

Editorial
Preface. IFPA meeting 2014

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Scientific program

The IFPA meeting was preceded by a one-day symposium organized by the PremUp foundation (www.premup.org) on “Preeclampsia” and by the GFP meeting (Groupe de Francophonie Placentaire).

The scientific patron of the IFPA 2014 meeting was Prof. Nicole Le Douarin, honorary permanent Secretary of the French Academy of Sciences and the theme of the meeting was maternal-fetal-placental communication and pregnancy outcome.

The scientific program comprised five plenary sessions, two keynotes lectures,

Highlights of early career researchers

Two oral sessions were allocated to new investigators, selected to present based on the ranking of their abstracts. The ECR representatives, Sally Collins (University of Oxford, UK) and Carlos Salomon (University of Brisbane, Australia), organized two sessions. In the first, the ECR Balloon Debate, three experts tried to persuade the ECR and also all the IFPA members that their subject was the most vital in the field of placental research. Graham Burton (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)

Awards

Alexander Heazell (Manchester Academic Health Science Center, UK) was the recipient of the Gabor Than Award, a prize that acknowledges outstanding contributions to the field of placentology in all its aspects. His talk focused on “Identification of Placental Failure – The Key to Saving Babies' Lives?”

The Elsevier Trophoblast Research Award lecture “Underlying mechanisms directing ADAM12-mediated trophoblast invasion” was given by Mahroo Aghababaei (University of British Columbia, Vancouver,

Social program and activities

On Tuesday evening, the IFPA participants were invited to the town hall of Paris that they reached by walking via a very scenic route from les Cordeliers, crossing the Seine. The welcome reception was held in the “Salon des Arcades”. During this reception, the young investigators received their awards.

The gala dinner was held during a cruise on the Seine which allowed guests to discover all the magic of the banks of the Seine river, which are enhanced by the most prestigious monuments marking

Many thanks

I am sincerely thankful to Jean Guibourdenche for his support and suggestions since the IFPA 2011 in Geilo in the preparation of this meeting. He led for the first time an opinion survey on IFPA 2014. Thank you to the 88 delegates from all over the world and of all ages who responded to him!

I am very grateful to the 40 invited speakers and awardees for providing outstanding lectures that truly engaged and inspired the audience. I would like to gratefully acknowledge all the French institutions,

Conflict of interest

The author does not have any potential or actual personal, political, or financial interest in the material, information, or techniques described in this paper.

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