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EAU18 Scientific Programme: From precision medicine to future prospects
Organising a five-day congress with a Scientific Programme that addresses the extensive scope of international urology can be daunting. Not for Prof. Arnulf Stenzl, Chair of the EAU Scientific Congress Committee, and his team who had brainstormed and planned...

Antibiotic stewardship: A crucial task to counter multidrug-resistant bacteria
For decades, antibiotics have been our primary weapon to treat bacterial infections. Today, we face one of the biggest challenges of our times: we are having difficulties curing infections caused by bacteria, which were once susceptible to the action...

ERUS17: Robotic Section attracts both young and experienced urologists
The fourteenth meeting of the EAU Robotic Urology Section in Bruges, Belgium represented an informal 10th anniversary: a return to Belgium where the first meeting of an independent ERUS took place. The scope and scale of the meeting was...

Call for Abstracts: ESUI Vision Award 2018
The EAU Section of Urological Imaging (ESUI) is calling for abstracts for the ESUI Vision Award 2018, which will be given to the first author of the most innovative imaging study published in urology during the last year. The...

PCa17: What to expect in future prostate cancer management
The number of promising biomarkers at different molecular levels are increasing, accompanied by numerous testing in the market, but cancer experts say independent and prospective validation is crucial to help the medical community eventually provide optimal care to cancer...

ESU introduces new urolithiasis e-course in collaboration with EULIS
The EAU Education Online course Introduction to Upper Urinary Tract Endoscopy for Stones is the latest installment to a series of highly-informative e-courses designed to equip junior urologists and to refresh the more experienced with the latest in ureteroscopic stone...

Discovery Award for Israeli bio-chip testing technology
An Israeli testing technology that rapidly identifies bacterial infection in hours instead of days has won the Discovery Award, a financing grant from the United Kingdom that will enable the team to further test and expand the use of...

ESAU17: “Approaching male fertility problems as a sign of more general disease”
For two days in November, Malmö will be welcoming experts on andrology from all over the world for the 10th Meeting of the EAU Section of Andrological Urology. This meeting is the first of its kind in several years, organised...

Call for Nominations: 2017 Dominique Chopin Distinguished Award
The EAU Section of Urological Research (ESUR) is pleased to announce that nominations for the Dominique Chopin Distinguished Award will be accepted until August 31, 2017. Members of the EAU who wish to submit a nomination should consider the...

Fundamentals on research strategies at ESUR17
Participate in riveting, interdisciplinary discussions on vital clinical and research topics at the upcoming 24th Meeting of the EAU Section of Urological Research (ESUR17). Set to take place from 12-14 October in Paris, France, the meeting will focus on...

ESOU17: “Game changer ahead” in lymph node staging detection
Emerging research presented at ESOU17 showed encouraging results on the use of PSMA-PET for the diagnosis of lymph node staging. However, Prof. Markus Graefen (Hamburg, DE) did start his talk by reminding the audience on day two of ESOU17 that...

ESOU17 Day 1: An interview with the ‘local’ organiser
Prostate cancer was the leading topic in the morning session of the first day of ESOU17, the 14th Meeting of the EAU Section of Oncological Urology. The meeting took place in Barcelona on 20-22 January 2017. Due to a change...