Place:

The main lecture hall, Samfundet Folkhälsan Activity House Topeliuksenkatu 20 00250 Helsinki

Registrations:	by April 30, 1997 to Marjatta Valkama, Dept Clinical Chemistry, PL 60, 00014 University of Helsinki, Tel 09-615 85 559, Fax 09-615 85 633, e-mail marjatta.valkama@helsinki.fi
Registration fee:	for students of the Steroid Graduate School and other graduate schools no fee, other participants 500,- mk (which will include the meals) Bank Account: Merita 226218-10925, Dept Clinical Chemistry

Thursday June, 5, 1997

	Chairman: Herman Adlercreutz
13.00-13.10 pm	Pentti Tuohimaa: Introduction
13.10 13.35	Pentti Tuohimaa: Nuclear steroid receptors
13.35-13.45	Discussion
13.45-14.10	Olli Jänne: Androgen receptor in transcriptional regulation
14.10-14.20	Discussion
14.20-14.45	Luciano Martini: Control of steroid metabolism in the brain: a cross talk between neurons and glial cells
14.45-14.55	Discussion
14.55-15.30	Coffee
15.30-15.55	Etienne-Emile Baulieu: New functions for neurosteroids
15.55-16.05	Discussion
16.05-16.30	Charles Brooks: Selective reactions in steroid analysis
16.30-16.40	Discussion
16.40-17.05	Theodore Fotsis: From steroid profiling to angiogenesis, a course of 20 years
17.05-17.15	Discussion
18.00-21.00	Informal dinner for all the participants in the symposium and graduate course at the Folkhälsan Health Activity House

Friday June, 6, 1997

	Chairman: Elwood Jensen
09.00-09.25 am	Klaus-Dieter Voigt: Autocrine and paracrine action of growth factors in prostate carcinoma
09.25-09.35	Discussion
09.35-10.00	Vivian James: Steroids in sports
10.00-10.10	Discussion
10.10-10.35	Keith Griffiths: Is the chronobra still alive?
10.35-10.45	Discussion
10.45-11.10	Pentti Siiteri: Hormones and breast cancer, past, present and future
11.10-11.20	Discussion
11.20-11.45	Luigi Castagnetta: Metabolic pathways of steroids comparing different methdological approaches - the case of 17ß-hydroxysteroid oxidoreductase
11.45-11.55	Discussion
12.00-13.30	pm Lunch
	Chairman: Pentti Siiteri
13.30-13.55	Elwood Jensen: The curious pharmacology of the antiestrogens
13.55-14.05	Discussion
14.05-14-30	Jos Thijssen: Endogenous steroids and the breast
14.30-14.40	Discussion
14.40-15.05	Richard Bulbrook: A 30-year follow-up of the role of hormones in the aetiology and clinical course of breast cancer
15.05-15.15	Discussion
15.15-15.40	Jorge R. Pasqualini: Role, control and expression of estrone sulfatase and 17ß-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase activities in human breast cancer
15.40-15.50	Discussion
15.50-16.15	Herman Adlercreutz: Diet, smoking and estrogen metabolism in relation to breast cancer
16.15-16.25	Discussion
	Fini

Speakers

Elwood Jensen
Institut für Hormon- und Fortpflanzungsforschung an der Universität Hamburg, Germany

Jos Thijssen
University Hospital of Utrecht, Department of Endocrinology, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Richard Bulbrook
Clachan, Dunlichty, Inverness, Scotland 1V 1 2AN, UK

Pentti Siiteri
6801 Augusta Court, West Palm Beach, FL 33412, U.S.A.

Olli Jänne
Institute of Biomedicine, University of Helsinki, Finland

Luciano Martini
Istituto di Endocrinologia, University of Milan, Italy

Pentti Tuohimaa
University of Tampere, Dept of Biomedicine, Finland

Klaus-Dieter Voigt
Horstlooge 22 b, D-22359 Hamburg, Germany

Jorge R. Pasqualini
C.N.R.S. Steroid Hormone Research Unit, Paris, France

Etienne-Emile Baulieu
INSERM U 33, Le Kremlin-Bicetre, France

Luigi Castagnetta
Hormone Biochem Lab, Palermo Univ Med School, c/o Cancer Hosp Ctr, "M. Ascoli", Palermo, Italy

Vivian James
6 Brookmans Avenue, Brookmans Park, Herts., AL9 7QJ, U.K.

Charles Brooks
7 Duntocher Road, Bearsden, Glasgow G61 4 NR, U.K.

Keith Griffiths
Univ of Wales College of Medicine, Tenovus Cancer Res Ctr, Cardiff, Wales, UK

Theodore Fotsis
Univ Ioannina, Medal School, Lab Biol Chem, Ioannina, Greece

Herman Adlercreutz
Dept of Clinical Chemistry, University of Hki, Finland

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