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EAU21 General Assembly: New EAU Board and Executive Members
Typically, the Annual EAU Congress is also the occasion for the annual General Assembly, where new positions within the EAU are approved and other matters voted on by the membership. Because of the last-minute postponement and decision to hold...
EAU21 opens with full-day semi-live surgery and Urology Beyond Europe sessions
EAU Secretary General Prof. Chris Chapple welcomed delegates to the 36th Annual EAU Congress, EAU21. Speaking from a studio in Hilversum, the traditional broadcast capital of the Netherlands, Prof. Chapple (GB) and Profs. Stenzl and Albers (DE) hailed the...
Call for applications: 2 scholars for COVID-19 projects
To encourage innovation and pioneering research on the effects of COVID-19 on urological patients, the European Urological Scholarship Programme (EUSP) is proud to announce a new collaboration with the EAU Section of Andrological Urology (ESAU) and ReproUnion. The EUSP,...
Access now: “Living textbook” on infections
Through the collaborative efforts of the EAU Section of Infections in Urology (ESIU), ZB MED – Information Center for Life Sciences, and the German Medical Science (GMS), a “living textbook” came to fruition. The newly-published “Urogenital Infections and Inflammations”...
GPIU 2020 study dates extended
The patient enrolment deadline of the Global Prevalence Study of Infections in Urology (GPIU) is extended to 31 January 2021. Qualified urologists and urology departments collaborating with microbiologists and infectious disease specialists are encouraged to join. A department can...
ESOU21 Virtual: Onco-urology updates and innovations you need to know
By Prof. Morgan Rouprêt From 29 to 31 January 2021, the 18th Meeting of the EAU Section of Oncological Urology (ESOU21 Virtual) will provide you with the most relevant onco-urology updates and contemporary insights on genitourinary cancers, making the...
ERUS-DRUS20: Meeting attracts new global audience
The EAU’s premier robotic urology event took place on November 6-7. Not in Düsseldorf as originally intended (and long hoped for), but as a two-day virtual event. The EAU Robotic Urology Section has years, if not decades, of experience...
New developments in imaging have great potential to change treatment in the coming years
There are several promising imaging techniques on the horizon, with the potential of changing the way oncology experts treat their patients. Novel modalities in ultrasound, combined with machine learning, further evolution of PET-CT beyond PSMA, the use of nanoparticles...
EMUC20: Highlights in GU cancers
Active surveillance should be considered the first treatment for prostate cancer in order to ensure the best quality of life. This was one of the key messages of Mr. André Deschamps’ (BE) presentation during the “Highlights in GU cancers”...
ERUS-DRUS20 Day 1: Virtual Robots
The EAU’s premier robotic urology event has started. Not in Düsseldorf as originally intended (and long hoped for), but as a two-day virtual event. The EAU Robotic Urology Section has years, if not decades, of experience with live transmissions...
The EAU RF’s “start-up package” for beginning researchers
Dr. Alvaro Aytes (Barcelona, ES) was finishing his postdoc in the United States when he started exploring funding opportunities for a new research project. “I was an associate research scientist at Columbia University in New York, and after seven...
EMUC20 is now a Virtual Congress!
In a change for uro-oncology experts across Europe, the 12th European Multidisciplinary Congress on Urological Cancers (EMUC20) is now a two-day virtual congress. While the organisers had hoped that the EMUC congress could be held physically like every year, the...