Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the organising committee and the SSIEM may we extend a warm invitation to the 2008 SSIEM Annual Symposium, which will be held in Lisboa, Portugal, from 2 to 5 September. Lisboa is one of the liveliest cities in southern Europe and is also known for its warm hospitality.

2008 marks a major anniversary – one hundred years since the Croonian lecture Inborn Errors of Metabolism by Archibald Eduard Garrod to the Royal College of Physicians, in London. The SSIEM Council decided to celebrate this landmark and therefore the Symposium theme will be Inborn Errors of Metabolism One Century after Garrod.

The scientific programme looks as stimulating as ever, offering: plenary sessions dedicated both to the main topic of this year’s meeting “interactions and regulation in IEM” and to the hot topics; parallel sessions giving the opportunity to present a large number of free communications and The Garrod Day, with a series of lectures in honour of Sir Archibald´s pioneering work. Tuesday morning will be dedicated to ERNDIM meeting and Nutrition and Dietary Treatment and Wilson’s Disease workshops.

The SSIEM Symposium 2008 will take place at the riverside Lisboa Congress Center. The venue will provide excellent facilities to accommodate a large number of poster presentations and the industry exhibitions.

Away from the seminar rooms, the local organising committee is working hard to plan a lively social programme, providing you with the chance to meet colleagues in a relaxing environment and to sample some of the history and atmosphere of Lisboa, the birthplace of so many other Discoveries.

We are delighted to be hosting the 2008 SSIEM Annual Symposium and very much look forward to welcoming colleagues to Lisboa.




Isabel Tavares de Almeida
President
Annual Symposium 2008