This event will take place at the British Pharmacological Society (BPS) winter meeting on 17 December 2008 at the Hilton Brighton Metropole Hotel, Brighton. Talks will be given by: Prof Steve Bloom (Imperial College, London) 'New targets - peripheral obesity', Dr Bruce Sargent (AMRI, USA) 'New targets - central obesity', Dr Nick Finer (Wellcome Clinical Research Facility, Cambridge) 'Clinical challenges:can current drugs compete with surgery?' and Dr Douglas Greene (Sanofi-Aventis, USA) 'Regulatory hurdles'. Abstract submission and online registration is now open at the website below. For further information please email: meetings@bps.ac.uk.

BPS website