News and Milestones Achievements

Milestones:

2009:

• Fourth meeting of the Young Investigators held at the 17th EASO European Congress on Obesity, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Around 100 Young Investigators took part in the event.
• YIU website revised to include a database of theses and papers.

2008:

• Third meeting of the Young Investigators held at the 16th EASO European Congress on Obesity, Geneva, Switzerland, 2008. Over 100 Young Investigators took part in the event.
• YIU website launched in September to provide Young Investigators greater opportunity to network and stay informed of future events.

2007:

• Second YIU official meeting held during the 15th EASO European Congress on Obesity, Budapest, Hungary. 2007. YIU was given a new definition as an association for ‘all obesity researchers who feel young’. At the ECO2007 45 young(ish) researchers from 15 different countries came together at the YIU meeting.
• EASO introduced Young Investigator Poster Prizes at ECO2007 for eight promising young researchers.

2006:

• ICO 2006 in Sydney. Ideas were collected for future development of YIU.

2005:

• YIU was established by Tommy Visscher, Kirsi Pietiläinen and Jan Polak.
• First YIU held on 2nd June at the 14th European Congress on Obesity, Athens, Greece 2005. Over 65 participants, from 13 different European countries attended.

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