Today, Tuesday May 09, the University of Kragujevac in collaboration with the Center of Excellence for the Acceleration of Harm Reduction (CoEHAR) University of Catania (Italy) has organized in Serbia a Scientific meeting dedicated to the Effects of combustible cigarettes and electronic nicotine delivery systems on the pathogenesis of inflammatory diseases.
At the conference, held at the Faculty of Medical Sciences University of Kragujevac, Rosalia Emma and Konstantinos Partsinevelos, researchers of the CoEHAR on the Replica Project, were present to discuss the topic.
The agenda included several speakers and speeches:
- Prof. Vladimir Jakovljevic, the Dean of Faculty of Medical Sciences University of Kragujevac
- Prof. Vladislav Volarevic, local PI for the Replica project: Delineation of signaling pathways responsible for detrimental effects of combustible cigarettes and electronic nicotine delivery systems on immune cells
- Rosalia Emma: Regulatory and Scientific Dimensions of Flavours used in Safer Nicotine Products
- Nikolina Kastratovic: Effects of combustible cigarettes and electronic nicotine delivery systems on the development and progression of chronic lung inflammation
- Konstantinos Partsinevelos: Genotoxicity induced by cigarette smoke and modified risk products
- Prof. Aleksandar Arsenijevic: Toxicity of combustible cigarettes and electronic nicotine delivery systems on bronchial epithelial cells
- Dragica Miloradovic: Effects of cigarette smoke on mesenchymal stem cell-based suppression of immune cell-driven acute liver failure
