UCSD Research Center to Host Symposium on Celiac Disease

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Source: University of California, San Diego

Released: Fri 20-Jan-2006, 14:35 ET

http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/517438/?sc=dwhp

UCSD Research Center to Host Symposium on Celiac Disease

Description

A scientific symposium on celiac disease, “Genetic and Immune Mechanisms

in Celiac Disease,” will be held at the University of California, San

Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine on Friday, February 10, from 8:30 a.m.

to 12 noon.

Newswise — A scientific symposium on celiac disease, “Genetic and Immune

Mechanisms in Celiac Disease,” will be held at the University of

California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine on Friday, February 10,

from 8:30 a.m. to 12 noon. The symposium, hosted by UCSD’s newly

established K. Warren Medical Research Center for Celiac

Disease, will be held at the university’s Center for Molecular Genetics.

Geared for researchers, the symposium will include introductory remarks

and an overview of the pathogenesis of celiac disease by F.

Kagnoff, M.D., professor of Medicine and Pediatrics at UCSD School of

Medicine, and director of the Warren Research Center. Other presenters

include Lloyd F. Mayer, M.D., professor of Immune Medicine, Medicine and

Microbiology at the Mt. Sinai Medical Center in New York; D. Brent Polk,

M.D., Vanderbilt Dean’s Professor of Pediatrics and Cell and

Developmental Biology and Chief of Pediatric Gastroenterology at

Vanderbilt University; Hilde Cheroute, Ph.D., adjunct associate

professor of Medicine and K. Warren Research Center Investigator

at the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology; Ludvig M. Sollid,

M.D, Ph.D., professor of the Institute of Immunology at the University

of Oslo, Norway; and Bana Jabri, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of

Pathology from the University of Chicago.

Celiac disease is a digestive condition triggered by consumption of a

common protein called gluten, which is found in bread, pasta, cookies,

pizza crust and many other common foods. Estimated to affect one in 100

Americans, it is a disease that often goes undiagnosed. Currently, the

only treatment for celiac disease is a change in diet.

“Symptoms of celiac disease might include unexplained anemia,

irritability, depression, weight loss, vitamin deficiency and

early-onset osteoporosis,” Kagnoff said. “Only about 10% of patients

have what might be considered typical symptoms. We have a huge

educational job with primary-care physicians to recognize and treat the

disease.”

UCSD’s Research Center and the symposium are funded by a $2.5 million

gift from the Oklahoma-based K. Warren Foundation, announced in

December 2005. Research investigators at the center include Kagnoff, a

widely recognized expert in the field of celiac disease; Cheroute, a

world authority in the immunology of the small intestine; and

Karin, Ph.D., UCSD School of Medicine professor of Pharmacology, widely

recognized for his studies on the signaling and regulation of inflammation.

Researchers seeking more information or who wish to register for the

scientific symposium on February can go to http://celiaccenter.ucsd.edu

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