25-28 September 2022, Syros island, Greece
We are pleased to announce the 2022 Golden Helix Summer School that will be held in the island of Syros, Greece, the capital of the Cyclades islands in the Aegean archipelago.
The 2022 Golden Helix Summer School contents will revolve around Genome Informatics and Health Economics in Genomic and Personalised Medicine and aims to familiarize and educate participants with the basic and advanced notions of applying genomic science into medicine. So apart from the morning plenary lectures, the 2022 Golden Helix Summer School participants will have the chance of applying active learning, by working in teams and in close guidance with the Summer School Faculty and Coaches, to produce presentations and other deliverables.
In addition, the 3rd TranSYS Training School will be co-organised September 28 – October 2, 2022 jointly with the Golden Helix Foundation and the TranSYS H2020 project.
The 2022 Golden Helix Summer School themes aim for doctoral candidates, post-doctoral scientists and possibly fellows and junior faculty members, while they are also relevant for undergraduate as well as postgraduate students.
As with previous events, we have made every effort to minimize the registration fees to encourage participation of researchers from lower-income countries.
We are looking forward to welcoming you to Syros, Greece next September and to a very fruitful and stimulating conference.
The 2022 Golden Helix Summer School Organizing Committee
2022 Golden Helix Summer School co-organized by:
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3rd TranSYS Training School co-organized by:
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Important dates
Registration and abstract submission deadline (EXTENDED): 31 August 2022
Notification of abstract acceptance (EXTENDED): 5 September 2022
Cancellation deadline: 31 August 2022
Registration fees *
Double room: 700 EUR per person
Single room: 840 EUR
Virtual attendance: 300 EUR
Registration fees include:
Accommodation in a double/single room for the entire duration of the summer school (3 nights), meals (breakfast, coffee breaks, lunches, dinners, welcome reception and farewell traditional party), educational material, social activities.
AboutVenueInvited SpeakersScientifc Program3rd TranSYS Training SchoolSponsorsGalleryWe are pleased to announce the 2022 Golden Helix Summer School that will be held in the island of Syros, Greece, the capital of the Cyclades islands in the Aegean archipelago.
The 2022 Golden Helix Summer School contents will revolve around Genome Informatics and Health Economics in Genomic and Personalised Medicine and aims to familiarize and educate participants with the basic and advanced notions of applying genomic science into medicine. So apart from the morning plenary lectures, the 2022 Golden Helix Summer School participants will have the chance of applying active learning, by working in teams and in close guidance with the Summer School Faculty and Coaches, to produce presentations and other deliverables.
In addition, the 3rd TranSYS Training School will be co-organised September 28 – October 2, 2022 jointly with the Golden Helix Foundation and the TranSYS H2020 project.
The 2022 Golden Helix Summer School themes aim for doctoral candidates, post-doctoral scientists and possibly fellows and junior faculty members, while they are also relevant for undergraduate as well as postgraduate students.
As with previous events, we have made every effort to minimize the registration fees to encourage participation of researchers from lower-income countries.
We are looking forward to welcoming you to Syros, Greece next September and to a very fruitful and stimulating conference.
The 2022 Golden Helix Summer School Organizing Committee
2022 Golden Helix Summer School co-organized by:
3rd TranSYS Training School co-organized by:
Important dates
Registration and abstract submission deadline (EXTENDED): 31 August 2022
Notification of abstract acceptance (EXTENDED): 5 September 2022
Cancellation deadline: 31 August 2022
Registration fees *
Double room: 700 EUR per person
Single room: 840 EUR
Virtual attendance: 300 EUR
Registration fees include:
Accommodation in a double/single room for the entire duration of the summer school (3 nights), meals (breakfast, coffee breaks, lunches, dinners, welcome reception and farewell traditional party), educational material, social activities.
2022 Golden Helix Summer School and 3rd TranSYS Training School Venue
The venue of the 2022 Golden Helix Summer School is the Dolphin Bay Resort hotel, situated in an ideal location in the bay of Galissas, by the seaside. Galissas is the most popular touristic destination. Galissas is located in a protected bay on the west coast of the island, which together with Danakos, a small and quiet farming village, number around 500 inhabitants. Galissas beach is long, with shallow-waters, and lined with tamarisk trees and has been awarded the blue-flag by the EU. There are various water sport activities. Area landmarks are the hill and church of Agia Pakou, immediately adjacent to the Dolphin Bay hotel, the small harbor with a quaint stone pier, the beach of Armeos, the large cave of Agios Stefanos with the water springs, as well as the chapels of Agios Mamas and Agios Kyrikos, the oldest church in Syros.
About Syros
Organizing Committee
Keynote speakers
Plenary speakers
Instructors
Vasilios Fragoulakis (London, UK)
Kariofyllis Karamperis (London, UK)
Margarita-Ioanna Koufaki (Patras, GR)
John Mikros (Houston, TX, USA)
Maria-Theodora Pandi (Rotterdam, NL)
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
Sunday 25 September 2022
12:30 Arrival and Registration
14:00 – 17:00 SESSION I – Chair: G. Patrinos
14:00 – 14:30 George P. Patrinos – University of Patras Department of Pharmacy, Patras, Greece
Personalized Medicine: The Medicine of tomorrow, today
14:30 – 17:00 WORKSHOP 1 – Human genome informatics
Bioinformatics, artificial intelligence and personalized therapeutics (MyEngene)
Trent Marx – John Mikros (MyEngene LLC, Houston, TX, USA)
17:00 – 19:30 Free time
19:30 – 22:00 Welcome cocktail
Monday 26 September 2022
08:30 – 10:00 Breakfast
10:00 – 12:30 SESSION 2 – Chair: G. Wood
10:00 – 10:30 Oscar Lao – Institut de Biologia Evolutiva, CSIC, Barcelona Spain
When we were healthy. The role of evolution in health and disease
10:30 – 11:00 Grant Wood – Global Genomic Medicine Collaborative, USA
The G2MC Family Health History Flagship project
11:00 – 11:30 Alessio Squassina – University of Cagliari, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cagliari, Italy
Overview of the genomic approaches applied to personalized medicine: focus on precision psychiatry
11:30 – 12:30 Keynote lecture 1
Ron H. van Schaik – Professor and Department Head, Erasmus University Medical Center, Department of Clinical Chemistry, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Pharmacogenomics in the clinic: Examples and applications
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 – 16:00 Galatea Bio: Workshop 2
Ming Ta Michael Lee, Galatea Bio – Shari Messinger, University of Miami
Large-scale Genome projects: From concept to implementation
16:00 – 17:00 Keynote lecture 2
Nicholas Katsanis – Chief Science Officer, Galatea Bio, Miami, FL, USA
Large-scale genomics projects: Examples and future steps
17:00 – 19:30 Free time
19:30 – 22:00 Dinner
Tuesday 27 September 2022
08:30 – 10:00 Breakfast
10:00 – 12:30 SESSION 3 – Chair: C. Mitropoulou
10:00 – 10:30 Konstantinos Vasileiou – University of Patras Department of Pharmacy, Patras, Greece
Marketing approaches in personalized medicine
10:30 – 11:00 Christina Mitropoulou – The Golden Helix Foundation, London, UK
Health economic evaluation in personalized medicine
11:00 – 11:30 Kariofyllis Karamperis – The Golden Helix Foundation, London, UK
Examples of economic evaluation in genome-guided therapeutic interventions
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 – 15:30 SESSION 4 – Chair: G. Patrinos
Keynote lecture 3:
Marc S. Williams – Professor and Director Emeritus, Genomic Medicine Institute Geisinger, Danville, PA, USA
Patient-centered Precision Health in a learning healthcare system: Geisinger’s Genomic Medicine experience
15:30 – 16:00 – Coffee break
16:00 – 17:00 Oral presentations
16:00 – 16:20 Manoussos E. Kambouris
Metagenomics: The art of being smart and the profit of keeping it simple
16:20 – 16:40 Stavroula Siamoglou
BioSTEM: An innovative educational tool in the field of Genomics and Personalised Medicine
16:40 – 17:00 Marina Dimitriou, Kalliopi Giantsi
iGEM Patras 2022: Project PAGGAIA: Precision Agriculture using Genomics, Artificial Intelligence and Aero-transportable equipment
17:00 – 19:30 Free time
19:30 – 22:00 Farewell Party at a. nearby tavern
Wednesday 28 September 2022
08:30 – 09:30 Breakfast
SESSION 5 – This will be a joint session between the 2022 Golden Helix Summer School and the 3rd TranSYS Training School
Chair: C. Mitropoulou
09:30 – 10:45 Christina Mitropoulou
Health economic evaluation in Genomic and Personalized Medicine – Workshop
10:45 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:00 Maria-Theodora Pandi and Vasilios Fragoulakis
Health economic evaluation of genome-guided interventions – Workshop continues
2022 Golden Helix Summer school adjourns
3rd TranSYS Training School – Overview
The 3rd TranSYS Training School focuses on “health informatics, economics and translation in systems medicine (TranSYS).
This school is organised by the TranSYS consortium and the Golden Helix Foundation offering researchers and students broad training opportunities in scientific and transferable skills.
Official language will be English. All times are Greek Time.
For full speakers’ information and abstract of their talk please click the following link:
Scientific Program
Following our previous successful online training schools held at Ljubljana’s Centre for Functional Genomics and Bio-Chips (November 2020) on “data generation, technologies, study design & protocol development” and at Institute Pasteur, Paris, in November 2021 which focused on “data analytics, warehousing and security”, we are happy to announce the 3rd TranSYS training school will be held as an in person event this September, organised by the Golden Helix Foundation, on the beautiful island of Syros, Greece.
This year’s topic “Optimizing therapeutics, translation and valorization in the context of precision medicine”, links to the TranSYS ITN work package (WP3) on Translational Medicine for Targeted Therapeutics. This work aims todefine signatures of larger groups of patients to create a critical mass for treatment strategies to become economically viable. It requires training on advances on interpretable Big Data science, and the exploitation of large cohorts to derive benchmark signatures, building on Preclinical Science and Molecular Medicine (WP1), Systems Analytics(WP2), clinical trial design and analysis. With this, our last summer school, we are completing the circle from basic science and systems analytics to translational and clinical science.
Tuesday 27 September 2022
14:00 – 19:30 Arrival and registration
19:30 – 21:00 Dinner
21:30 Welcome party at a nearby tavern
Wednesday 28 September 2022
08:30 – 09:30 Breakfast
SESSION 1
This joint workshop session is locally organized by the Golden Helix Foundation and succeeds the biennially organised Golden Helix Summer School, whose theme this year is Genome Informatics and Health Economics in Genomic and Personalised Medicine. Overlapping both schools this workshop focuses on economic evaluation of genome-guided interventions, presenting the basic theoretical knowledge and methodology to perform health economic evaluation of genome-guided therapeutic interventions using real-data examples from clinical studies.
09:30 – 10:45 Christina Mitropoulou
Health economic evaluation in Genomic and Personalized Medicine – Workshop
10:45 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:00 Maria-Theodora Pandi
Health economic evaluation of genome-guided interventions – Workshop continues
12:00 – 14:00 Lunch break
SESSION 2 – Chair: K. van Steen
Personalised Medicine entails making paradigm shifts that stray away from purely mean efficacy models. Following tutorials on clinical trial design in previous TranSYS schools, precision medicine also requires adapting classical clinical trial designs to find personalised optimal treatment benefits. Interested? Then do not miss this session!
14:00 – 15:45 Francois-Henri Boissel
Dealing with the efficacy paradigm
15:15 – 15:45 Coffee break
15:45 – 17:00 Sumithra Mandrekar
The design and implementation of precision medicine trials in oncology
17:00 – 19:00 Free time
19:00 – 21:30 Dinner
Thursday 29 September 2022
08:30 – 09:30 Breakfast
SESSION 3 – Chair: R. van Schaik
Oncology is one of the key medical specialties in which Personalised Medicine is currently being implemented in the clinic. In this session, examples from the clinical application of precision therapeutics in oncology, both in terms of solid tumours as well as haematological malignancies. Specific examples from economic evaluation of precision therapeutics in oncology will be presented, focused on real-life clinical data.
09:30 – 10:45 Ron H. van Schaik
Translating Pharmacogenetic Research into a Clinical Oncology setting
10:45 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:00 Vasilios Fragoulakis
Health Economic evaluation in Precision Oncology
12:00 – 14:00 Lunch break
SESSION 4 – Chair: V. Xirafas
Delivering and properly communicating genetic testing results to patients is a crucial parameter to maximize the utility of genetic testing services. This workshop aims to describe what are the means to properly communicate genetic testing results to patients and their relatives, and investigate the ethical implications in the miscommunication of these results and the overall societal challenges.
14:00 – 15:45 Vasilios Xyrafas
Ethical issues in Genetic testing: Can we avoid stigmatization and psychological distress?
15:15 – 15:45 Coffee break
15:45 – 17:00 Vasilios Xyrafas
Ethical issues in Genetic testing: Can we avoid stigmatization and psychological distress? – Workshop continues
17:00 – 19:00 Free time
19:00 – 21:30 Dinner
Friday 30 September 2022
08:00 – 09:00 Breakfast
SESSION 5 – Chair: K. van Steen
The road from bench to bedside is long and windy. Novel viewpoints and developments regarding analytics, interpretable AI, translational platforms and infrastructures can make the journey more agreeable. Here, we present a selection with specific use cases.
09:00 – 10:45 Antje Walz
From bench to bedside: Bringing (precision) medicine to patients with translational modelling
10:45 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:00 Yves Moreau
Artificial Intelligence in precision medicine
12:00 – 14:00 Lunch break
SESSION 6 – Chair: G. Patrinos
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are emerging disciplines that are gradually gaining momentum in the field of Personalized Medicine, A small number of IT tools are employing artificial intelligence in order to interpret genetic information into a clinically meaningful format. In this session, an artificial intelligence-based IT tool will be presented, developed for reporting pharmacogenomic variants in order to personalized drug treatment modalities.
14:00 – 15:45 Christoforos Kasimatis
Artificial Intelligence and Personalized therapeutics
15:15 – 15:45 Coffee break
15:45 – 17:00 Mikko Hiltulnen
Personalized Medicine approach for novel microglia-associated genetic variants in Alzheimer’s disease
17:00 – 19:00 Free time
19:00 – 21:30 Dinner
Saturday 1 October 2022
08:30 – 09:30 Breakfast
SESSION 7 – Chair: R. Head
TranSYS training schools always include transferable skills training sessions and in this school we address personal branding. Personal branding is a vital skill that focuses on the process of creating an identity for a professional as an individual or business. This involves developing a well-defined and consistent look, message, and presence both on–and offline. There are many psychology-based reasons why you should work on your own personal brand and these aspects will be presented, as well as how to be noticed in the research field. This is also tightly linked to the importance of knowing of what companies are looking for, for future employment.
09:30 – 10:45 Yiannis Pollalis
Personal branding: Identifying and communicating our value & growth potential
10:45 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:00 (MyEngene, Deloitte, Boehringer)
Industry participation – What are companies looking for
12:00 – 14:00 Lunch break
THIS WORKSHOP IS RESERVED FOR TRANSYS EARLY STAGE RESEARCHERS ONLY
14:00 – 15:45 ESR Workshop
TranSYS only: Exploring commercial potential – ESR workshop
15:15 – 15:45 Coffee break
15:45 – 17:00 ESR Workshop
TranSYS only: Exploring commercial potential – ESR workshop (Workshop continues)
17:00 – 19:00 Free time
19:00 – 21:30 TranSYS social event / farewell party
Sunday 2 October 2022
08:30 – 09:30 Breakfast
THIS WORKSHOP IS RESERVED FOR TRANSYS EARLY STAGE RESEARCHERS ONLY
09:30 – 10:45 TranSYS ESRs
TranSYS only – Preparation by ESRs
10:45 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:00 TranSYS ESRs
TranSYS ESRs present commercial feasibility of their project
Meeting adjourns
Sponsors
We thank the following academic, charitable and corporate entities for generously supporting this event.
Grand Sponsors
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Communication Sponsors
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Syros is the administrative center of Cyclades islands and is just 80 nautical miles from Athens. In Syros, the unique historical path, cultural wealth and imposing natural environment nicely blend. The island harmoniously combines the cosmopolitan and the traditional, the medieval with the modern urban, the Cycladic with the neoclassic, and the catholic with the Greek Orthodox historical tradition
Syros is the administrative center of Cyclades islands and is just 80 nautical miles from Athens. In Syros, the unique historical path, cultural wealth and imposing natural environment nicely blend. The island harmoniously combines the cosmopolitan and the traditional, the medieval with the modern urban, the Cycladic with the neoclassic, and the catholic with the Greek Orthodox historical tradition
