The 14th Golden Helix Pharmacogenomics day will be organized in the lecture hall of Angel hotel of Cardiff, in Wales. The meeting will feature some of the most prominent speakers in the field of Pharmacogenomics in the United Kingdom.

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The 14th Golden Helix Pharmacogenomics day will be organized in the lecture hall of Angel hotel of Cardiff, in Wales. The meeting will feature some of the most prominent speakers in the field of Pharmacogenomics in the United Kingdom.

On behalf of the Organizing Committee

Co-organized by:

Under the auspices of:

Organizing Committe

Meena Upadhyaya; Professor, Cardiff University, Institute of Medical Genetics, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

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

Invited speakers

Darrol Baker (London, UK)

Panos Deloukas (Hinxton, UK)

William Newman (Manchester, UK)

George P. Patrinos (Patras, GR)

Munir Pirmohammed (Liverpool, UK)

Simon Reed (Cardiff, UK)

Phil Routledge (Cardiff, UK)

James Walters (Cardiff, UK)

Scientific Program

09:00 09:25 Registration & Coffee

09:25 09:30 Welcome addresses

Session I (Chair: Meena Upadhyaya)

09:30 10:00 Phil Routledge, Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Cardiff University School of Medicine, Cardiff, Wales

The implications of pharmacogenomics to clinical practice in NHS Wales

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

Personalized Pharmacogenomics Profiling using whole genome sequencing

10:30 11:00 William Newman, Professor, Manchester Centre for Genomic Medicine, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

Using exome sequence analysis in pharmacogenetics

11:00 11:30 Coffee break

Session II (Chair: George P. Patrinos)

11:30 12:00 Panos Deloukas, Professor, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK

Cardiovascular genomics

12:00 12:30Peter Jacobs, Consultant, Strategy in GSD Research Business

Your nre research companion for pharmacogenomics

12:30 13:30 Lunch break

Session III (Chair: Simon Reed)

13:30 14:30 Munir Pirmohammed, Professor, Department of Pharmacogenetics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

Pharmacogenomics, challenges and opportunities

14:30 15:00 Darrol Baker, Director, The Golden Helix Foundation, London, UK

Massive scale clinical data in pharmacogenomics and personalized medicine

15:00 15:20 Tea break

Session IV (Chair: William Newman)

15:20 15:50 James Walters, Institute of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, Cadiff University, Cardiff, Wales

The Genomics of treatment resistant schizophrenia

15:50 16:20 Simon Reed, Institute of Cancer and Genetics, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales

Genome-wide mapping of cellular DNA damage and epigenetic responses folowing exposure to platinum-analogue chemotherapy agents

16:20 – 16:30 Concluding remarks

MEETING ENDS

Sponsors

The Organizing Committee acknowledges the support of following entities that support the organization of the 14th Golden Helix Pharmacogenomics Day:

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