The Xth international symposium organized by the Esteve Foundation was held in S’Agaró (Girona, Spain; October 2-5, 2002). It was chaired by Adriaan IJzerman (Leiden/Amsterdam Center for Drug Research) and a total of 23 speakers completed the three days meeting. During the symposium important proof-of-concept was provided arround all the aspects of inverse agonism: in…
2002
The Esteve Foundation organized a workshop to present and discuss some hot topics on peer review of scientific papers. It was held in Sitges (Barcelona, Catalonia) on January 21st and 22nd, 2002. The workshop was chaired by Marcus M. Reidenberg and June W. Reidenberg, from Weill Medical College at Cornell University (New York) and members…
2002
The Ninth International Symposium of the Esteve Foundation was held in Lloret de Mar (Girona, Spain; 4-7 October 2000). All lectures discussed the Optimal Dose Identification. It was chaired by Alasdair Breckenridge from the Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, University of Liverpool, and there were a total number of 29 participants. The proceedings of the…
2000
The eighth international symposium organized by the Esteve Foundation, Variability in human drug response, was held on October 7-10, 1998 in Sitges. Aspects related to the variability in drug response were discussed. As shown in this symposium, the fact that each patient is different when given one same treatment entails both an obstacle and a…
1998
This workshop was held in Sitges (Barcelona, Spain) on May 11-12, 1998. It was organized by both, the Esteve Foundation and the Spanish Society of Epidemiology. Robert H. Fletcher and Suzanne W. Fletcher from Boston (Co-Editors of the Journal of General Internal Medicine and Ex-Editors de Annals of Internal Medicine) chaired this meeting which was…
1998
As antidoping controls have gained wide repercussion in the media on account of their performance in great contests, much talk has ensued regarding the misuse of drugs in sports. However, the objective of this seventh international symposium, organized by the Esteve Foundation on October 2-5, 1996 in Sitges, was not to approach such a mass-…
1996
A small 3-day workshop sponsored by Cornell University Medical College and funded by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation of Battle Creek, Mich., USA, and the Esteve Foundation of Barcelona, Spain, was held on May, 25-27 1995. M. M. Reidenberg (USA), a member of the WHO Committee on the Use of Essential Drugs, organized and chaired…
1995
Professionals in the field of sexual pharmacology research gathered at the international symposium organized by the Esteve Foundation on October 9-12, 1994 in Majorca with the purpose of seeking answers to related issues. How can pharmacology contribute to clinically improve a number of existing sexual problems? What are the repercussions on the sexual function secondary…
1994
On October 12-15, 1992, in Majorca, the Esteve Foundation organized the international symposium The pharmacology of cell differentiation, where general and specific mechanisms involved in the inter- and intra-cellular systems related to the transduction of signals involved in cell growth and development were explored. This scientific meeting was coordinated by R.A. Rifkind, from the Sloan-Kettering…
1992
The diagnosis, treatment and prevention of diseases found different opportunities for the development of new agents in the new techniques of molecular biology. The goal of this international symposium, organized by the Esteve Foundation on October 7-10, 1990 in Majorca, was to ascertain how the potential of modern biomedical science could be extrapolated into reality…
1990
