FECTS Contacts

Contact persons of the Federation of European Connective Tissue Societies

Austria
Joseph Neumuller
e-mail: josef.neumueller@meduniwien.ac.at

Belgium
Guido David
VIB Department of Molecular and Developmental Genetics, University of Leuven
Laboratory for Glycobiology & Developmental Genetics
Campus Gasthuisberg, O&N1
Herestraat 49
B-3000 Leuven - Belgium
Tel: +32 16 34 58 63
Fax: +32 16 34 71 66
e-mail: Guido.David@med.kuleuven.be

Czech Republik
Milan Adam
e-mail: adam@revma.cz

Denmark
Henning Langberg
Institute of Sports Medicine, Copenhagen
Bispebjerg Hospital, bldg. 8, 1.
Bispebjerg Bakke 23
DK-2400 Copenhagen NV - Denmark
Tel: +45 3531 2710
Fax: +45 3531 2733
e-mail: hl02@bbh.regionh.dk

Finland (Finnish Connective Tissue Society)
Jyrki Heino
Department of Biochemistry
University nof turku
Turku
Finland
e-mail: jyheino@utu.fi

France (French Connective Tissue Society)
Sylvie Ricard-Blum
Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Proteines
UMR 5086 CNRS - University Lyon
7 passage du Vercors
69367 Lyon Cedex 07 - France
Tel: + 33 (0)4 37 65 29 26
Fax: +33(0)4 72 72 26 04
e-mail: s.ricard-blum@ibcp.fr

Germany (Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Bindegewebsforschung)

Professor Liliana Schaefer

Allgemeine Pharmakologie und Toxikologie, Division Nephropharmakologie

Klinikum der Goethe Universitaet

Theodor-Stern Kai 7

Bau 74 - 3.108a

60590 Frankfurt a.M.

Germany

Tel: +49 (0)69-6301-7899

email: schaefer@med.uni-frankfurt.de

Greece (Hellenic Research Club for Connective Tissue and Matrix Biology)
Nikos Karamanos
Laboratory of Biochemistry
Department of Chemistry
University of Patras
Patras - Greece
e-mail: n.k.karamanos@upatras.gr
e-mail: nk2691@otenet.gr

Hungary

Professor József TIMÁR
Chairman
2nd Department of Pathology
Semmelweis University
Budapest, Hungary
Email: jtimar@korb2.sote.hu

Israel
Naphtali Savion
e-mail: eyeres@post.tau.ac.il

Italy (The Italian Society for Connective Tissue)

Professor Antonio Rossi

Department of Biochemistry
Via Taramelli 3/B

Pavia University

email: antrossi@unipv.it

The Nederlands
Professor Ruud Bank

Department of Pathology & Medical Biology, University Medical Centre Groningen

Hanzeplein 1

9713 GZ Groningen
The Netherlands

tel: +31-50 361 8043

email: r.a.bank@med.umcg.nl

Poland
Professor Aleksander L. Sieron
Director
Dept. Gen. and Molec. Biol. and Genet.
Medical Univerity of Silesia
Medykow 18, Bldg. C-1
40-752 Katowice
Poland

Tel: +4832 208 8394
email: alsieron@sum.edu.pl

Sweden
Mikael Wendel
e-mail: Donald.Gullberg@biomed.uib.no

Switzerland (Swiss Society for Matrix Biology)
Johannes Schittny
Institute of Anatomy
Bahlstrasse 2
CH-3012 Bern
Switzerland
Tel: 0041 31 631 4635
e-mail: schittny@ana.unibe.ch

United Kingdom (British Society for Matrix Biology)
Andrew Pitsillides

Veterinary Basic Sciences
Royal Veterinary College
Royal College Street
London NW1 0TU
United Kingdom
e-mail: apitsill@rvc.ac.uk