(Kansas City) February 17, 2006— Nearly 50 research experts from across the country have committed to a joint conference in Chicago next month. The workshop sponsored jointly by the PKD Foundation and the Tuberous Sclerosis Alliance is designed to discuss biological processes which are relevant to both polycystic kidney disease and TS.

The workshop is scheduled for March 9-10 at the Chicago Hilton O’Hare.
The list of committed speakers includes:

Cheryl Lyn Walker, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
Peter C. Harris, Mayo Clinic
Vicente Torres , Mayo Clinic
Elizabeth Henske, Fox Chase Cancer Center
Stefan Somlo, Yale University School of Medicine
Greg Germino, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
David Kwiatkowski, Harvard Medical School
Brendan Manning, Harvard School of Public Health
Thomas Weimbs, University of California Santa Barbara
James P. Calvet, University of Kansas Medical Center
Jing Zhou, Harvard Institutes of Medicine
Bradley K.Yoder, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Ray Yeung, University of Washington School of Medicine
Lisa Guay-Woodford, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Gerd Walz, University Hospital Freidburg Germany
Vera Krymskya, University of Pennsylvania
Angela Wandinger- Ness, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center
John J. Bissler, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Sandy Dabora, Brigham & Women’s Hospital
Charles Edelstein, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Vincent Gattone, Indiana University School of Medicine

For more information, visit www.pkdcure.org or call 1-800-PKD-CURE.