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Tea and Health Dubai World Congress December 3 – 4, 2009

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The 3rd World Congress on Tea & Health: Nutraceutical and Pharmaceutical Applications. Last Advances, Controversies & Innovations will be held in Dubai from 3 to 4 December 2009. Tea World Congress plans to attract participants in various areas related to tea including researchers and academic professors, R&D departments, clinicians, pharmaceutical companies, food supplement companies, cosmetics companies, veterinary medicine companies, marketing departments, investors, start ups, and all other stakeholders.

Dubai Tea Conference 2009 aims to provide answers and to give a future vision of how Tea Polyphenols can enhance human nutrition and help in the prevention and treatment (tea as promising drugs) of many chronic diseases.

The topics of the Dubai Tea Conference will included:

• Tea and the Prevention of Chronic Diseases
• Bioavailability of Tea and Tea Extracts
• Nutraceutical Applications of Tea Polyphenols
• Tea and Skin-Ageing
• Slimming and Weight Management effects of Tea Polyphenols and Tea Extracts
• Anti-stress and well-being effects of Tea Polyphenols

In parallel, “Tea extracts as a future Drug?” will be on Friday December 4, 2009. The aim of the Symposium is to discuss how tea can be used as a future drug.

Several high level speakers will discuss about various subjects
• Pr Marvin Edeas, President of ISANH – Paris, France.
• Pr Ping Dou, Karmanos Cancer Institute and Wayne State University – Detroit, USA.
• Dr Michael Boschmann, Experimental and Clinical Research Center – Berlin, Germany.
• Pr Saverio Bettuzzi, Department of Experimentale Medecine – Parma, Italy.
• Pr Wilfried Dimpfel, Justus-Liebig-Univesity – Giessen, Germany.
• Dr Matthias Laschke, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Surgery – Homburg, Germany.
• Dr Mario Lorenz, Charite-Universitätmedizin – Berlin, Germany.
• Pr Murat Turkoglu, Faculty of Pharmacy – Istanbul, Turkey.
We look forward to welcoming you in Dubai for this particular event.

Complete Conference Program

3rd World Congress on
Tea & Health: Nutraceutical and Pharmaceutical Applications
December 3 & 4, 2009

Program

Thursday December 3rd, 2009.

08:30 Registration
09:00 General introduction: Oxidative stress and Antioxidants: What are the strategic roles for Tea and Tea Polyphenols? Pr Marvin Edeas – President of International Society of Antioxidant in Nutrition and Health, Paris, France

Session 1: Tea and the Prevention of Chronic Diseases

09:30 Recent advances in Tea Polyphenols: Biological effects and potential molecular targets
Pr Ping Dou – Karmanos Cancer Institute and Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA

Tea and Metabolic Syndrome

10:00 Green Tea and Metabolic Syndrome: Recent advances and perspectives
Dr Michael Boschmann – Experimental and Clinical Research Center, Berlin, Germany

10:30 Tea break & Poster Session

Tea and Cancers

11:00 Inhibition of human prostate cancer progression by administration of Green Tea Catechins: From the bench to the clinical trial
Pr Saverio Bettuzzi – Department of Experimentale Medecine, Parma, Italy

Tea and Neurodegenerative Diseases

11:30 Tea, brain and neurodegenerative diseases
Pr Wilfried Dimpfel – Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany

Tea and Angiogenesis effects: Endometriosis

12:00 Anti-Angiogenic effects and indications of green tea therapy: Applications on endometriosis
Dr Matthias Laschke – Institute for Clinical and Experimental Surgery, Homburg, Germany

12:30 Lunch and Poster Session

Session 2: Bioavailability of Tea and Tea Extracts

14:00 Bioavailability of tea polyphenols in humans: Problems and open questions
Dr Mario Lorenz – Charite-Universitätmedizin, Berlin, Germany

14:30 General discussion on last controversies of tea effects on health
Which compounds block tea absorption?

Effect of milk on antioxidant activities and bioavailability
Effect of vitamin C on antioxidant activities
Tea, iron and anaemia
Risk of tea consumption during cancer treatment

Session 3: Nutraceutical Applications of Tea Polyphenols

15:00 Call for short oral presentations from academics and industrials: 10 minutes to convince

Open Session for Industry: Business to Business meeting
New Sources, New Ingredients, Technological Innovations
Netwoork platform: Resolve today’s issues to reach future perspectives. Identify competitors in your field. Meet new customers. New applications in human health.

Oncolyn for Anti-Aging, Anti-Cancer and other Cytoprotective Function. Dr Arthur H.K. Djang – Sante International, New-York, USA

Tea and Health: the vision of Tea Board of Sri-Lanka
Hasitha De Alwis is the Director – Promotion and Mr Upali Kahandawa,

Minister Counseller.

16:00 Call for short oral presentations from academics and industrials: 10 minutes to convince

Open Session for Industry: Business to Business meeting
All tea producers and seelers can meet with buyers and distributors of tea and tea related products.

New Sources, New Ingredients, Technological Innovations
Netwoork platform: Resolve today’s issues to reach future perspectives. Identify competitors in your field. Meet new customers. New applications in human health

– Applications in food supplements
– Tea as a nutraceutical
– Tea and functional drinks
– Tea as a Maillard-Reaction Inhibitor (Acrylamide)
– Tea and Tea extracts stability in drinks and food
– Tea and Oral and Dental Diseases
– Anti-anxiolitic effects of tea
– Tea as food preservative

– Tea for Cosmetics Formulation
– Tea as a treatment for psoriasis and dandruff
– Stability of green tea in cosmetics
– Methods to deliver tea into skin

17:30 End of the first day

Friday December 4th, 2009.

Session 4: Tea and Skin-Ageing

09:00 Tea for anti skin-ageing: Recent advances and practical applications
Pr Murat Turkoglu – Faculty of Pharmacy, Istanbul, Turkey

Session 5: Slimming and Weight Management effects of
Tea Polyphenols and Tea Extracts

9:30 Effect of green tea on weight management after body-weight loss: Effect on thermogenesis and fat oxidation
Dr Michael Boschmann – Experimental and Clinical Research Center, Berlin, Germany

Session 6: Anti-stress and well-being effects of Tea Polyphenols

10:00: L-theanine: Its effect on mental state, psychological and physiological responses
Pr Wilfried Dimpfel – Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany

10:30: Decaffeinated green tea: focus on weight management
Pr Francesco Visioli – Université Paris VI, Paris, France

10:45: Tea break and Poster Session

11:00 SYMPOSIUM: Tea extracts as a future drug?
The aim of the Symposium is to discuss whether tea extracts as potential to be used as a future drug. Selected speakers will discuss the various targets of tea as a drug, including cancer, mitochondria, metabolic syndrome, anti-photo-ageing, or anti-angiogenesis.

Program

11:00: Tea Polyphenols as a potential anticancer agent
Pr Ping Dou – Karmanos Cancer Institute and Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA

11:30: Green Tea Polyphenols: A novel drug to treat prostate cancer?
Pr Saverio Bettuzzi – Department of Experimentale Medecine, Parma, Italy

11:45: Green tea as anti-angiogenic drug
Dr Matthias Laschke – Institute for Clinical and Experimental Surgery, Homburg, Germany

12:00: The potential use of tea as anti photo-ageing drug
Pr Murat Turkoglu – Faculty of Pharmacy, Istanbul, Turkey

12:15: Green tea and tea extracts as drugs for metabolic syndrome
Dr Michael Boschmann – Experimental and Clinical Research Center, Berlin, Germany

12:30: Lunch and Poster Session

14:00: Targeting mitochondria with green tea: Strategy and challenge
Pr Marvin Edeas – President of International Society of Antioxidant in Nutrition
14:30: GENERAL DISCUSSION OF TEA & HEALTH WORLD CONGRESS

With the presence of all speakers of Tea & Health 2009

Green Tea & Antioxidants: Challenges and perspectives

Conclusion and recommendations

Tea and Health Dubai 2009 Innovation Award

15:30: End of the Conference

For more information:

Tea and Health 2009
15 rue de la Paix
75002 Paris – FRANCE
Tél: + 33 1 55 04 77 55
Fax: + 33 1 55 04 77 57
isanh-conferences@orange.fr

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