Program Highlights

Global Andrology and Men’s Health: Present Challenges for Future Generations

Tributes

  • On the Shoulders of Giants in Andrology: Tribute to andrologists throughout the world who are giants in the andrology field
  • Tribute to 2010 Nobel Prize Winner Robert G. Edwards

Plenary Lectures

  • Risk Factors for Male Fertility: The aging and post-chemotherapy fathers
  • The Orchestration of Sexual Differentiation
  • Whole Genome Association Studies: what we have learned from them
  • Testosterone treatment: Two sides of the story
  • The Future of Male (In-) Fertility
  • Screening for Prostate Cancer: Where are we today? Debate

Symposia

  • How to Better Diagnose Prostate Cancer
  • Non-coding RNAs in spermatogenesis
  • The Epigenome in the Male Germline
  • Testicular Cancer: Updates on cellular origin and up-to-date treatment options
  • Non-androgenic Steroids in the Male
  • Novel  Functions of Gonadotropins
  • Hormonal Male Contraception:  A Critical Update
  • New Frontiers in Non Hormonal Male Contraception
  • Male Aging: is it cells, glands or hormones?
  • Obesity and Reproductive Potential
  • Reproductive stress: how do males deal with a poisoned environment
  • Testicular function and spermatogenesis
  • Stem Cells in Andrology
  • Sperm and Epididymal Function (Women in Andrology session)
  • Infection & Inflammation: Impact on Reproductive Organs
  • Sexual Medicine I: An update on Erectile Dysfunction
  • Sexual Medicine II: It is more than Erectile Dysfunction
  • Andrology and Public Health

Workshops

  • Towards Global Harmonization of Andrology Testing
  • Standardisation of Testosterone Assays
  • Standardisation of Semen Analysis: what needs to be done?
  • Validation and Standardisation of Measurement of Sperm DNA
  • Damage and Innovative Technique to Select the Best Spermatozoa
  • Moving Forward the Recognition of Andrology as a Medical Speciality or Sub-speciality
    (Discussion with representatives of Member Societies)
  • Metabolic Consequences of Androgen Withdrawal Therapy: Overview and Discussion
  • Animal Models in Andrology

Post Graduate Course: Novel Diagnostic and Research Approaches in Male Infertility

  • The diagnostic work-up of infertile men
  • Genetic tests in andrology: from research to clinic
  • Epigenetic aspects of male infertility
  • DNA integrity tests: methodology, clinical significance
  • Single sperm selection for ART
  •  The “Omics” in Andrology
  • Imaging in Andrology
  • News in oncology: semen markers and genetic tests in testis cancer
  • Stem cell biology