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How many volunteers were present at the Congress? : |
Many (perhaps a thousand or more) |
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Delegates from which countries presented in the congress? : |
All over the world |
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Were the delegates of any other organizations present in the congress? : |
Yes |
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If yes, please write the names of the organizations in the box : |
All universities and research organizations and clinical lab. and medical supply companies |
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What were the responses to your talking points? Were specific questions or concerns raised? : |
I had a poster presentation, not a talk. So far as I remember, I chose and preferred poster to oral at the time of submission, because I did not know what to expect. Next time, I will probably choose to present orally. In the presented work, we had used a raw extract of chicory seeds; many of those who saw and studied my poster, discussed the importance of identifying the active ingredients within the extract. This is an ongoing project that is still somewhat incomplete.
The important point is that no problem was detected or mentioned regarding the strategy and logic behind the data and conclusions. |
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If you met staff members, please list their full names & positions. : |
No |
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Please inform us if there are any follow up actions we need to talk with the members of the congress : |
I talked to many participants and professors. And I also visited several laboratories with diabetes-related activities, in Birmingham, Alabama. But may be due to their wrong judgment of Iran’s political stance and also because during the summer most professors were away, I was not very successful in collaborating with them.It is possible that if we present a better image of ourselves, the world would be pleased to work with us. I will contact you if such cooperation starts to happen.
Yet, I would like to ask for software called "Graphpad Prism" available at www.graphpad.com. I would like this to be available for all of us.
I must remind you that since my sister is a nursing PhD student in Alabama, and I helped her with her Elisa measurements during my stay in the US. Although I do not expect anything in return to the assistance that I gave her, my name may be included among the authors of some of her papers and abstracts. If that happens, I will mention them in my future documents. |
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Your experiences about the travel processes(Providing ticket, accommodation,...) : |
Everything was good without major problems. Poster fee ($70.00) was different and not the same as registration fee ($465.00). And, at my request, a print copy of my poster was carried and placed on the board by the congress facilities (this service cost $125.00). Adding these together, the registration fee sums up to a total of $660.00. |
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Please give a briefing of your own observations and outcomes of the congress: : |
The congress was really large. Many oral and poster presentations were arranged. It was not possible to participate in all the orals due to their simultaneous timing, yet all the rooms were inside the same building and it was really easy to quickly go from one room to another. I got some feeling about what new research in diabetes tends to focus on, nowadays. I am thinking about adding a few new aspects and measurements to my current diabetes research to make the data more appealing to colleagues all over the world. It is important to keep in touch with the latest discoveries and leading-edge scientific thinking.
There were medical supply companies with new drugs and insulin delivery equipments. One insulin delivery tool was not really an insulin pump, but an insulin storage device with a needle. The device could be fixed on the skin anywhere in the body, prefereably tummy, and the needle could be pushed into the skin. The device and the needle in it is supposed to stay there for 24 h and deliver basal insulin to the body; at the time of eating, a bolus of insulin is delivered by just a push of a small botton on the device, by the patient wearing it. The patient wearing this device can engage in any daily activity, even swimming. The device was called the "V GO".
A laboratory instrumentation was introduced by an American company that was interesting in that the future generations of this new device are going to be able to follow the changes that occur inside a whole tissue, like liver, after drug treatment without a need for homogenization and separation of cells and cytoplasm. Many things were new and interesting. |