Symposium

 

International Symposium

Progress On Personalising Medicines

 

25th September  2008 (Thursday)  

Lecture Theatre, Clinical Sciences Building,

University Hospital Campus,

Coventry CV2 2DX.

Website: http://go.warwick.ac.uk/cpt/ppm

Registration:  8:30am

Symposium:  9am to 5.30pm

Poster sessions: bursaries towards travel costs will be available.

Scientific Board: V Arnason, Ethics; ND Carter, Genetics; WL Currie, eHealth; A Marsh, Chemical Biology; A Shindler, Intellectual Property; DRJ Singer, Clinical Pharmacology; J Zhang, Molecular Endocrinology;

 

Key themes:

•      clinical applications

•      ethical issues

•      explaining risk 

•      genetic variability in drug response

•      importance of eHealth support systems

•      new genetic markers of risk of adverse drug effects

•      new rapid approaches to safer drug discovery

•      reducing adverse drug reactions by pharmacogenomic testing

•      regulatory perspectives

•      RNA therapeutics

•      safer prescribing

•      targeted stem cell therapy

•      view from policy makers

Contact the Symposium Office at mdscaf@warwick.ac.uk for information on registration and abstract submission.

Supported by:

University of Warwick Institute of Advanced Studies
www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/ias

Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine
http://www.fpm-uk.org/

 

 

 

 

 

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