On behalf of the United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation (UMDF), the Mitochondria Research Society, the Mitochondrial Medicine Society, and the Mitochondrial Physiology Society we would like to invite you to attend Mitochondrial Medicine 2010, the UMDF’s international symposium dedicated to mitochondrial medicine, to be held June 16-19, 2010, at the Camelback Inn & Resort, Scottsdale, Arizona.

The symposium planning committee has brought together a spectacular faculty for this year’s symposium. Based on our past annual symposia, we expect several hundred researchers and clinicians to attend this meeting.

This is the twelth annual conference organized by UMDF, bringing together clinical and basic science researchers sharing an interest in mitochondria. Participants come from many fields, including biochemistry, genetics, neurosciences, cardiology, cancer, diabetes, nephrology, hematology, pediatrics and aging research. At any major scientific meeting, a handful of presentations on mitochondrial disease will be found, but in order to stimulate research interactions in this ever-expanding cross-disciplinary field, the UMDF symposium focuses entirely on mitochondrial medicine.

The UMDF mission is to promote research and education for the diagnosis, treatment and cure of mitochondrial disorders and to provide support to affected individuals and families.

Join us in Scottsdale, AZ, as we continue to set the pace in mitochondrial medicine, encouraging the exchange of information and cultivating networks among physicians, researchers, patients and families!

Sincerely,

Carlos Moraes, PhD
Course Chair
University of Miami, Florida

Bruce H. Cohen, MD
CME Chair
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH