ECN GENERAL INFORMATION

The tasks of the ECN (European Complement Network) are defined as follows:

Promotion of Communication between European Complement Labs

• continuance of the e-mail bulletin board

• maintenance of a list of all major European complement laboratories including fax & e-mail addresses

• newsletters containing important information (no fixed intervals)

• exchange of reagents between labs

• negotiation of scientific and political issues within the EU

• encouragement of applications for European grants

Arrangement of an ECN Complement Workshop Every Other Year,

• by nominating a scientist responsible for its organisation,

• assessment of the scientific contributions submitted to these meetings

Organisation of the Award of the ECN Medal

• ask for nominations

• organise voting, formal invitation of medal winners

• selection of speakers to hold the honourary speeches

• preparation of medals and documents

• collaboration with the organising committee for all necessary arrangements (travel,.accommodation)

ECN Board

Present Board:

Chairman:	Peter F. Zipfel, Germany (Peter.Zipfel@hki-jena.de);
	http://www.hki-jena.de/
Secretary:	T. Sakari Jokiranta, Finland (sakari.jokiranta(at)helsinki.fi);
	http://www.hi.helsinki.fi/jokiranta/

Guthmundur Arason, Iceland

Gerard Arlaud, France

Anna Blom, Sweden

Moh R. Daha, The Netherlands

Zvi Fishelson, Israel

Peter Garred, Denmark

Vladimir Kotnik, Slovenia

Margarita Lopez-Trascasa, Spain

Matthew Pickering, United Kingdom

Paulo Santos, Portugal

Cornelia Speth, Austria

Francesco Tedesco, Italy

Lilian Varga, Hungary

Previous Board Members with Year of Departure:

1997:	M. Dierich (A), U. Nydegger (CH), P. Schena (I), S-E. Svehag (DK)
1999:	M. Daha (NL), M. Kazatchkine (F), M. Loos (D), R. B. Sim (UK)
2001:	G. Füst (HU), S. Rodriguez de Cordoba (E), J. Schifferli (CH),
	A. Sjöholm (S, President 97-01), F. Tedesco (I)
2003:	M. Colomb (F), Z. Fishelson (IL), R.G. Q. Leslie (DK),S. Meri (FI, President 01-03),
	J. E. Volanakis (GR), R. Würzner (A, Secretary 97-03)
2005:	C. E. Hack (NL), M. Kirschfink (D), T.-E. Mollnes (N)
2007:	M. Cicardi (I), A. Erdei (HU), H. Lutz (CH), L. Truedsson (S), P. B. Morgan (UK, president 03-07)

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ECN Medals

One, preferably retired, scientist, from Europe or working in Europe,
should receive the ECN medal on each of the next European meetings.

Only in exceptional cases two ECN medal will be donated at one meeting.

Present ECN board members should not be eligible.

After a round of nominating suitable names, the ECN board will vote,
preferably after a general discussion, and the scientist receiving the highest vote
is selected.

The following outstanding European complementologists have been honoured
for their life-time achievements by the ECN Medal:

1997

Innsbruck

Klaus Rother,

Paul Klein,

Peter J. Lachmann,

Anna-Brita Laurell

1999

Helsinki

Angelo Agostoni,

Henry Isliker

2001

Strasbourg

Otto Götze,

Ulf R. Nilsson

2003

Trieste

John Volanakis

2005

Heidelberg

Ursula Rother

2007

Cardiff

The Late Anders Sjöholm

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ECN E-mail Bulletin Board

If you have not joined the e-mail bulletin board (run by Jiscbase) yet, please do so by sending an
e-mail message to jiscmail-support@jiscmail.ac.uk: ‘join complement-ecn Peter Smith (i.e. your name !!)’
Present members should send their messages to complement-ecn@jiscmail.ac.uk.

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Complement Laboratories

This is a list of European complement laboratories (mentioning only one scientist per institution).
Please do amend this ECN list if your institution is not mentioned or incorrectly listed
(e.g. person in charge and e-mail). This list is updated by the secretary of

ECN (sakari.jokiranta('at')helsinki.fi).

An International list of complementologists was created on the occasion of the XVIth International
Complement Workshop in Boston by Michael Pangburn and is available via http://www.complement.org.

You can add your name to this directory via www or FAX +1 903 877 5882.

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ECN Registry on Complement Deficiencies

Francesco Tedesco, Trieste, and his group have successfully established a registry of inherited
complement deficiencies within the framework of the BIOMED-2 concerted action (Role of
complement in infection & chronic disease, BMH4-CT96-1005).
This registry is currently under reconstruction.

European Complement in Human Disease Meetings

Year	Location	Organiser
1986	Lake Balaton, HU	George Füst
1988	Bari, IT	F. Paolo Schena
1990	Bratislava, CZ (SK)	Zora Starsia
1992	Leiden, NL	Moh R. Daha
1994	Les Diablerets, CH	Jürg Schifferli
1997	Innsbruck, AT	Reinhard Würzner, Manfred P. Dierich
1999	Helsinki, FI	Seppo Meri, Sakari Jokiranta
2001	Strasbourg, FR/IL	Zvi Fishelson
2003	Trieste, IT	Francesco Tedesco
2005	Heidelberg, D	Michael Kirschfink
2007	Cardiff, UK	B. Paul Morgan
2009	Visegrád , HU	Lilian Varga
2011	Leiden, NL	Piet Gros, Jos van Strijp, Anja Roos, Moh R. Daha

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Forthcoming Complement-Related Meetings

12th European Meeting on Complement in Human Disease

Will be organized by Lilian Varga in Visegrád, Hungary on 5-8th September, 2009.

The website for this meeting is http://www.chd2009.com/.

ECI 2009 Berlin

The second European Congress of Immunology will be organized in International Congress Center Berlin

in September 13-16, 2009. The president of the meeting is Prof. Dr. med. Reinhold E. Schmidt.

More information is available at http://www.eci-berlin2009.com.

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International Complement Society (ICS)

The ICS (http://www.complement.org) was founded after the ECN. Both are independent but collaborate
closely .

The e-mail bulletin board, for example, is unique for the ECN but open to all complementologists.
Vice-versa, ICS has a well-kept registry of all complementologists, which is why the ECN has
restricted their directory to laboratories (see ECN list of European Complement laboratories).

One major difference is the fact that the ECN was installed by an EU grant and is run by voluntary
personal or industrial donations,usually given during the European Meetings on Complement in
Human Disease.

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