The 15th Golden Helix Pharmacogenomics day will be organized in the lecture hall Aula Magna Rita Levi Montalcini of the University of Trieste, in Trieste, Italy. The meeting will be co-organized from the Department of Life Sciences of the University of Trieste and the Golden Helix Foundation and the theme of the meeting will be “Pharmacogenomics and therapy individualization in pediatric diseases”.

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The 15th Golden Helix Pharmacogenomics day will be organized in the lecture hall Aula Magna Rita Levi Montalcini of the University of Trieste, in Trieste, Italy. The meeting will be co-organized from the Department of Life Sciences of the University of Trieste and the Golden Helix Foundation and the theme of the meeting will be “Pharmacogenomics and therapy individualization in pediatric diseases”.

On behalf of the Organizing Committee

Co-organized by:

Under the auspices of:

Organizing Committe

Giuliana Decorti; Associate Professor, University of Trieste Department of Life Sciences, Trieste, Italy

Alessandro Ventura; Professor, University of Trieste Department of Medical, Surgical and Health Sciences and Institute for Maternal and Child Health I.R.C.C.S. Burlo Garofolo, Trieste, Italy

Sara De Iudicibus; Researcher, Institute for Maternal and Child Health I.R.C.C.S. Burlo Garofolo, Trieste, Italy

George P. Patrinos; Associate Professor, University of Patras School of Health Sciences, Department of Pharmacy, Patras, Greece

Invited speakers and moderators

Monique L. den Boer, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Vita Dolzan, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Paolo Gasparini, Trieste, Italy

Armando Genazzani, Novara, Italy

Stefano Martelossi, Trieste, Italy

Enrico Mini, Florence, Italy

George P. Patrinos, Patras Greece

Marco Rabusin, Trieste, Italy

Gabriele Stocco, Trieste, Italy

Andrea Taddio, Trieste, Italy

Giuseppe Toffoli, Aviano, Italy

Alberto Tommasini, Trieste, Italy

Giorgio Valle, Padova, Italy

Scientific Program

Pharmacogenomics and therapy individualization in pediatric diseases

8:30 Registration

9:00 Presentation of the initiative

Session I Chairmen: G. Decorti, G.P. Patrinos

09:30 10:00 George P. Patrinos, University of Patras, Department of Pharmacy, Patras Greece

Next-generation sequencing in pharmacogenomics

10:00 10:30 Paolo Gasparini, Department of medical, surgical and health sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

Research and identification of new genes and pathogenic variants involved in mental retardation

10:30 11:00 Andrea Taddio, Department of medical, surgical and health sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

Role of pharmacogenetics in juvenile idiopathic arthritis: myth or reality?

11:00 11:30 Vita Dolzan, Pharmacogenetics Laboratory, Institute of Biochemistry, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Treatment of juvenile idiopathic arthritis, the pharmacogeneticist point of view

11:30 12:00 Coffee break

Session II Chairmen: G. Toffoli, E. Mini

12:00 12:30 Marco Rabusin, IRCCS Burlo Garofolo, Trieste, Italy

Treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia: the clinician point of view

12:30 13:00 Monique L. den Boer, Erasmus MC Sophia Childrens Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

The emerging field between biology and clinics: finding precision medicines for children with acute leukemia

13:00 14:00 Light lunch

Session III Chairmen: A. Ventura, A. Genazzani

14:00 14:30 Giorgio Valle, Department of Biology CRIBI, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

Genome, transcriptome and epigenome at the service of the clinician: a clinical case on which to reflect

14:30 -15:00 Stefano Martelossi, IRCCS Burlo Garofolo, Trieste, Italy

Therapy of inflammatory bowel disease: the clinician point of view

15:00 15:30 Gabriele Stocco, Department of Life Sciences, Trieste, Italy

Therapy of inflammatory bowel disease: the pharmacogeneticist point of view

15:30 16:00 Alberto Tommasini, IRCCS Burlo Garofolo, Trieste, Italy

Early onset Crohn’s disease, from monogenic forms to the paradox of immune excess and defect

16:00 Concluding remarks

Sponsors

The Organizing Committee acknowledges the support of following entities that support the organization of the 15th Golden Helix Pharmacogenomics Day:

Sponsors:

This congress is organized with the support of the Italian Ministry of Health (grant GR-2010-230044).