Young Investigator Awards

The Executive Committee of the International Society for Behçet's Disease presents the winners of the 8 young (under the age of 35) investigator awards (each of US $ 500) for participation at the the 10th International Conference on Behçet's Disease, 27-29 June 2002, in Berlin, Germany.

The Executive Committee also thanks Prof. D. Haskard, Prof. F. Kaneko, Prof. S. Lightman and Prof. H. Yazici for reviewing and evaluating the candidating  131abstracts (in an anonymized manner).
 

PENTOXIFYLLINE (PTX) USE FOR MUCOCUTANEOUS ULCERATIONS IN BEHCET'S PATIENTS: A SURVEY OF RHEUMATOLOGIST IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA
EM Chang, GC Liang
Arthritis Division, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL, USA

WHOLE GENOME SCREENING OF MULTICASE FAMILIES WITH BEHÇET'S DISEASE
J Karasneh, A Gül , WER Ollier, A Silman, J Worthington
ARC Unit, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK, and Division of Rheumatology, University of Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

INFLUENCE OF INTERFERON-ALPHA ON LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATIONS IN BEHÇET`S DISEASE (BD)
M Treusch, N Stuebiger, M Bauer, R Vonthein, I Guenaydin, C Amberger, S Koch, M Zierhut, I Koetter
Depts. of Internal Medicine and Ophthalmology and Dept. of Medical Biometry, University Hospital of Tuebingen, Germany

EXPRESSION OF CCR5 IN BEHÇET'S DISEASE *
N Kokturk, M Önder, A Poyraz, M Oztas
Gazi University School of Medicine Ankara,Turkey

FAMILIAL SEGREGATION ANALYSIS IN BEHÇET'S DISEASE: EVIDENCE FOR A MENDELIAN ENTITY IN THE PEDIATRIC SUBGROUP
I Koné-Paut, N Molinari, R Manna, B Wechsler, JP Daures, I Touitou
Pediatrics, Hôpital Nord, Marseille, IURC Epidemiology & Statistics, Montpellier, France; Internal Medicine, A Gemmeli, Rome, Italy; Internal Medicine, Pitié Salpétrière, Paris, Genetics, Montpellier, France

THE BEHÇET'S DISEASE ACTIVITY INDEX (BDAI)
G Lawton, MA Chamberlain, B Bhakta, A Tennant
Rheumatology & Rehabilitation Research Unit, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

POLYMORPHISMS OF CXCR-2 IN BEHÇET'S DISEASE
V Yilmaz, J Duymaz, FA Uyar, A Gül, G Saruhan-Direskeneli
I.U.DETAE Departments of Immunology, I.U. Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Departments of Physiology and Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Istanbul, Turkey

AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM INVOLVEMENT IN BEHÇET'S DISEASE *
G Kaymak Karata, M Önder, J Meray
Gazi University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey