Institut Pasteur to host the Neurosciences in Intensive Care International Symposium on June 28 and 29

The Institut Pasteur is co-organizing the upcoming Neurosciences in Intensive Care International Symposium (NICIS), which this year will take place on its Paris campus on June 28 and 29.

The vision of NICIS is to accelerate transformative advances in the care and science of patients with critical illness and neurological injury. NICIS brings together clinicians and scientists who have a common aspiration to translate discoveries in the neurosciences into better patient-centered outcomes.

This year's edition of the international event will particularly focus on "The neuroscience of critical illness and acute CNS infection". Central nervous system infections are a common cause of acute brain injury and represent a major challenge in terms of diagnosis, management and prognostication. Despite advances in critical care medicine, the prognosis of acute CNS infections remains poor, and the pathophysiology of infection-associated injury, repair and regeneration remains poorly understood.

NICIS 2018 speakers include Institut Pasteur scientists Jean-Pierre Levraud and Marc Eloit as well as thought leaders in cellular and molecular biology, biomarker discovery and validation, neurophysiology, neuroimaging and brain mapping, and advanced clinical trial design. The conference is designed for an interdisciplinary audience of clinicians and investigators working in neuroscience and critical care medicine. This will be a unique opportunity to have an interactive and lively discussion between multiple content-experts with contrasting perspectives.

The deadline for abstract submissions is June 7.

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