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2nd Combined Working Group and Management Committee Meeting of Urine and Kidney Proteomics COST Action 29-30 March 2009, Nafplio, Greece

Vlahou, Antonia; Allmaier, Guenter; Attwood, Teresa; Bongcam-Rudloff, Erik; Charonis, Aris; Frokiaer, Jorgen; Mischak, Harald; Schanstra, Joost; Spasovski, Goce

Abstract

EuroKUP (Urine and Kidney Proteomics; www.eurokup.org) is a COST (European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical research: www.cost.esf.org Action fostering amulti-disciplinary network of investigators from 25 countries and focusing on facilitating translational proteomic research in kidney diseases. Four Working Groups focusing respectively on defining clinically important research questions in kidney diseases, kidney tissue proteomics, urine proteomics and bioinformatics have been generated. The EuroKUP members had their second combined Working Group and Management Committee (MC) meeting in Nafplio, Greece from March 29 to 30, 2009. This report summarizes the main presentations, discussions and agreed action points during this meeting. These refer to the design of collaborative projects and clinical center networks for specific kidney diseases; establishment of guidelines for kidney tissue proteomics analysis by laser-based imaging- and laser capture microdissection-MS; development and characterization of a "standard" urine specimen to be used for assessment of platform capability and data comparability in clinical proteomics applications; definition of statistical requirements in biomarker discovery studies; and development of a specialized kidney and urine ontology. Various training activities are planned involving training schools on laser capture microdissection-and imaging-MS, workshops on ontologies as well as short-term travel grants for junior investigators.

Keywords

Clinical proteomics; Imaging MS; Kidney diseases; Ontology; Urine

Published in

PROTEOMICS - Clinical Applications
2009, volume: 3, number: 9, pages: 1017-1022
Publisher: WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH

Authors' information

Vlahou, Antonia
Academy of Athens
Allmaier, Guenter
Technische Universitat Wien
Attwood, Teresa
University of Manchester
Bongcam-Rudloff, Erik (Bongcam Rudloff, Erik)
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics
Charonis, Aris
Academy of Athens
Frokiaer, Jorgen
Aarhus University
Mischak, Harald
Mosa Diagnost and Therapeut AG
Schanstra, Joost
Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale (Inserm)
Schanstra, Joost
Universite de Toulouse
Spasovski, Goce
Saints Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje

UKÄ Subject classification

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Publication Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/prca.200900087

URI (permanent link to this page)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/118199