Epigenomics and Epigenetics conference at PEMED 2018
An Epigenomics and Epigenetics conference will be held at the Personalized and Precision Medicine International Conference. Epigenomics and Epigenetics will be highly covered at PEMED 2018 which will gather the best experts in the field in Paris from June 25th to the 27th. This page is fully dedicated to this PEMED 2018 hot topic.
Plenary talks related to epigenetics
The PEMED 2018 conference will gather 12 high-profile Personalized and Precision Medicine experts to deliver plenary speeches. 2 of them will dedicate their talk to Epigenetics and Epigenomics.
Prof. Matthias Schwab
Dr. Margarete Fischer-Bosch-Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Stuttgart, and Department of Clinical Pharmacology, University Hospital, Tuebingen, Germany
Prof. Manuel Perucho
Institute of Predictive and Personalized Medicine of Cancer (IMPPC), Spain
Talk title: The epigenetics of colon cancer & the GCAT|Genomes for Life: A Cohort of the Genomes of Catalonia
Epigenomics and epigenetics workshops
Besides oral and poster presentations, workshops will be organized to take more time to discuss hot topics, 2 are dedicated to Epigenetics and Epigenomics.
The first one will focus on pharmacogenomics and epigenomics. It will be chaired by Prof. Matthias Schwab and Prof. Anne T. Nies with the intervention of four eminent experts:
Professor Matthias Schwab
IKP and Dept of Clinical Pharmacology, Univ Hospital of Tuebingen, Germany
Professor Anne T. Nies
Dr. Margarete Fischer-Bosch-Institute of Clinical Pharmacology (IKP), Germany
Prof. Volker M. Lauschke
Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Talk title: How to Consider Rare Genetic Variants in Personalized Drug Therapy
Prof. Jesse J. Swen
Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, Netherlands
Talk title: Implementation of Pharmacogenetics in clinical practice – The U-PGx project
Prof. Ann K. Daly
Newcastle University Medical School, UK
Talk title: Pharmacogenomics of drug induced liver injury
Prof. Mladen Tzvetkov
University Hospital Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
Talk title: Genetic variability in organic cation transporter OCT1: a variance with clinical implication?
Another workshop on epigenetics and applications in cancerology will be presented by the exhibitor Active Motif:
Dr. Sarantis Chlamydas
Product Manager at Active Motif
Talk title: A Multi-Omics approach to define the epigenetic profile of your model system