The 8th Golden Helix Pharmacogenomics day was held in the Meeting Hall of the Czech Ombudsmans Office in Brno, Czech Republic. The meeting was held as a satellite event to the 29th National Human Genetics Conference that was held in Brno 29-30 November 2012 and was attended by over 150 registered participants.

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The 8th Golden Helix Pharmacogenomics day was held in the Meeting Hall of the Czech Ombudsmans Office in Brno, Czech Republic. The meeting was held as a satellite event to the 29th National Human Genetics Conference that was held in Brno 29-30 November 2012 and was attended by over 150 registered participants.

Co-organized by:

Under the auspices of:

Organizing Committe

Iveta Valkov, Professor, Masaryk University Brno & FN Brno, Brno, Czech Republic

Milan Macek Jr, Professor, Charles University & FN Motol, UK 2. LF, Prague, Czech Republic

Tom Zima, Professor, VFN Prague, UK 1. LF, Prague, Czech Republic

George P. Patrinos, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacy, University of Patras, Greece

Invited speakers

Angela Brand (Maastricht, the Netherlands)

Vita Dolzan (Ljubljana, Slovenia)

Florian Graedler (Munich, Germany)

Kateina Kubkov (Prague, Czech Republic)

George P. Patrinos (Patras, Greece)

Ondej Slana (Prague, Czech Republic)

Pavel Souek, Prague, Czech Republic

Scientific Program

08.30 09.20 Registration

09.20 09.30 Opening addresses

Session 1 – Chairpersons: George P. Patrinos, Renata Gaillyov

09.30 10.00 George P. Patrinos, Assistant Professor, University of Patras Department of Pharmacy, Patras, Greece

Pharmacogenomics and developing countries in Europe

10.00 10.30 Vita Dolzan, Professor and Head, Pharmacogenetics Laboratory, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Medicine, Ljubljana, Slovenia

State-of-the-art pharmacogenomics in Slovenia

10.30 11.00 Ondej Slana, Associate Professor,Department of clinical pharmacology, VFN Praha and 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic

State-of-the-art pharmacogenomics in the Czech Republic

COFFEE BREAK

Session 2Chairpersons: Milan Macek, Angela Brand

11.30 12.00 Florian Graedler, Field applications scientist, Illumina BV, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Next-Generation Sequencing and microarray applications in pharmacogenomics

12.00 12.30 Pavel Souek, Researcher,National Institute of Public Health, Prague, Czech Republic

Pharmacogenomics in colorectal and breast cancers

12.30 13.00 Kateina Kubkov, Clinical Oncologist, Department of Oncology, FN Motol, Prague, Czech Republic

Committee for Orphan Medical Products (COMP EMA): orphan drugs, biomarkers and rare cancers

13.00 13.30 Angela Brand, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands

Pharmacogenomics and public health genomics

13.30 14.00 Discussion – Concluding remarks

Sponsors

The Organizing Committee acknowledges the support of following entities that supported the organization of the 8th Golden Helix Pharmacogenomics Day:

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