Short impression of the 24th Workshop of the AIDPIT Study Group (Artificial Insulin Delivery, Pancreas and Islet Transplantation), in Igls (Innsbruck) Austria, 23-25 January 2005.
Video from January 25th featuring :
(i) the Igls Congress park ;
(ii) the morning opening lecture by Mathias Brendel, with chairs Bart Keymeulen (Brussels, Belgium) and Mathias Brendel (Giessen, Germany), and, in the lecture hall : president Annika Tibell (Sweden) and honorary member Reinhard Bretzel (Germany) ;
(iii) a lunch time meeting with José Oberholzer (Chicago, USA) … not familar yet ;) with that new little Sony T1 camera with a periscopic lens inside .. ;
(iv) one of the afternoon discussion groups (Clinical Islet Transplantation) ;
(v) clips from the plenary oral abstract session with chairs Karin Ulrichs (Germany) and Richard Smith (Bristol , UK) and lectures by Norma Sue Kenyon (Miami , USA) and Piero Marchetti (Pisa, Italy) with discussion by Daniel Brandhorst.
Notes
AIDPIT was known first as AIDSPIT, short for : Artificial Insulin Delivery Systems, Pancreas and Islet Transplantation.
The AIDSPIT study group of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) was established in the early 1980s.
In 2000 the acronym AIDSPIT was replaced by ‘AIDPIT’, in order to avoid confusion with the AIDS disease.
The annual meetings are generally held in the little town of Igls, close to Innsbruck in Austria — the first years, early in February, and next, late in January. Once, in the 1990s (following a discussion ‘…why always in Igls?’, the meeting was held in Amsterdam.
From 2011, the annual workshops of AIDPIT continued as a joined meeting with the EPITA — the European Pancreas and Islet Transplant Association — part of the European Society for Organ Transplantation (ESOT).
From 2024 — following the 12th EPITA Symposium & 41st AIDPIT Workshop in 2023 — this symposium is referred to as the EPITA Symposium.
The original film (2016) was uploaded to Vimeo (size 640×480), and posted Jan 25, 2016 (20160125) at blogging site 1-memo.com , URL https://1-memo.com/2016/01/25/24th-aidpit-workshop-igls/
A second, remastered, video edition (2022) was produced by upscaling the original video file (converted to size 1920 × 1440) and adding a caption, and uploaded to YouTube Jan 25, 2022.
This second edition is published now – Jan 25th 2026 – as part of the Science series of posts at my site michelvanderburg.com, started in 2022 to make available online a portfolio of the science section of my CV, a project I hope to finish soon… in a few months.
Portfolio – Science : https://michelvanderburg.com/category/science/
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