2024 Golden Helix Summer School, Syros Island, Greece

The venue of the 2024 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

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.

In Syros, there are more than 20.000 inhabitants, constituting the largest island of the Cyclades. Ermoupolis is the capital of Syros and of the Cyclades islands, a city that fascinates the visitor from the first moment he enters the harbor, with its breathtaking two hills that dominate the city, with the Catholic church of Saint George and the Greek Orthodox church of Resurrection at the top of each hill, and the impressive neoclassical mansions, built around the big natural harbor of the east coast of the capital city.
Created during the 1821 Greek revolution, Ermoupolis developed quickly into a big trade centre between east and west. The name Ermoupolis was adopted in 1826, dedicated to the kerdoos Ermis (Hermes the profitable). As the time went by, industries, workshops and Neorion shipyards were created in the city, leading to the economic development of Ermoupolis and to a cultural blossoming. This is also reflected in the architecture of the city, where the style created, conforms with the beginning of romantic classicism and is strongly influenced by western models.

Organizing Committee

George P. PATRINOS (Patras, GR)

Branka ZUKIC (Belgrade, RS)

Confirmed Speakers 

Keynote Speakers

Harald Schmidt (Maastricht, NL)

Ron H. van Schaik (Rotterdam, NL)    

Marc Williams (Danville, PA, USA)

Plenary Speakers

Grant Wood (Salt Lake City, UT, USA)

Sonja Pavlovic (Belgrade, RS)

Yannis Pollalis (Piraeus, GR)

Biljana Stankovic (Belgrade, RS)

Thanos Kotsinas (Athens, GR)

Nikola Kotur (Belgrade, RS)

Christina Mitropoulou (London, UK)

Stavroula Siamoglou (Patras, GR)

Athanassios Vozikis (Piraeus, GR)

Thorsten Lehr (Saarland, DE)

Vasilis Xirafas (Patras, GR)

Branka Zukic (Belgrade, RS)

DRAFT SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

Wednesday 25 September 2024

09:00 – 13:30 Arrival and Registration

13:45 – 14:00 Introductions

14:00 – 17:00 SESSION 1

14:00 – 14:30 Thorsten Lehr – University of Saarland, Saarbrucken, Germany

Drug-drug-gene interactions: The SafePolyMed paradigm

14:30 – 16:00 Workshop 1 (hands-on)

SafePolyMed hands-on workshop

16:00 – 17:00 Keynote lecture 1

Ron H. van Schaik – Erasmus University Medical Center, Department of Clinical Chemistry, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Genome-guided therapeutics in the clinic: Examples and applications

17:00 – 19:30 Free time

08:30 – 10:00 Breakfast 

19:30 – 22:00 Welcome cocktail – Networking

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Thursday 26 September 2024

10:00 – 12:30 SESSION 2

10:00 – 10:30 Branka Zukic – Institute of Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering, Belgrade, Republic of Serbia

Next-generation genomics technologies for the advancement of personalized medicine

10:30 – 11:00 Biljana Stankovic – Institute of Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering, Belgrade, Republic of Serbia

From Bioinformatics to Genome informatics towards personalized genomics

11:00 – 11:30 Grant Wood – Global Genomic Medicine Collaborative, Durban, NC, USA

The Family Health History project

11:30 – 12:30 Keynote lecture 2

Harald Schmidt – Professor, University of Maastricht, the Netherlands

AI-based approaches for polypharmacy and drug repurposing

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 – 14:30 Athanassios Kotsinas – National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Athens, Greece

CAR-T cells-based therapeutics

14:30 – 16:00 Workshop 2

PharmGenHub hands-on workshop on genome informatics

Led by Nikola Kotur

16:00 – 17:00 Oral presentations 1

17:00 – 19:30 Free time

19:30 – 22:00 Dinner

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Friday 27 September 2024

08:30 – 10:00 Breakfast

10:00 – 12:30 SESSION 3

10:00 – 10:30 Konstantinos Vasileiou – University of Patras Department of Pharmacy, Patras, Greece

Career development session

Marketing approaches in personalized medicine

10:30 – 11:00 Sonja Pavlovic – Institute of Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering, Belgrade, Republic of Serbia

Establishing regional excellence in personalized medicine: The SERBORDIS-Inn and PharmGenHub success stories

11:00 – 11:30 Stavroula Siamoglou– University of Patras Department of Pharmacy, Patras, Greece

Approaches to raise general public’s genomics awareness and healthcare professionals genomic education: The BioSTEM initiative using the portable 2MoBiL laboratory 

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 – 15:30 Workshop 3

16:00 – 17:00 Oral presentations 2

17:00 – 19:30 Free time

19:30 – 22:00 Dinner

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Saturday 28 September 2024

08:30 – 10:00 Breakfast

10:00 – 12:30 SESSION 4

10:00 – 11:30  Yannis Pollalis – University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece

Personal Branding: Identifying and Communicating Our Value and Growth Potential

11:30 – 12:00 Athanassios Vozikis – University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece

Health economic evaluation in personalized medicine

12:00 – 12:30 Christina Mitropoulou – The Golden Helix Foundation, London, UK

Examples of economic evaluation in genome-guided therapeutic interventions

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 – 14:30 Vasilios Xirafas – University of Patras Department of Pharmacy, Patras, Greece

Genethics: Ethical perspectives in Personalized Medicine

14:30 – 15:30 Workshop 4

Ethical and philosophical approaches in genome-guided therapeutics: Case studies

Led by Vasilios Xirafas

15:40   Departure for Ermoupolis walking guided tour

16:00 – 18:00 Ermoupolis walking guided tour

18:00 – 19:30 Free time in Ermoupolis

19:30    Return to the Conference venue

20:00 – 01:00 Farewell Dinner – Traditional Party

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Sunday 29 September 2024

08:30 – 10:00 Breakfast

10:00 – 12:00 SESSION 5

10:00 – 10:40: Best abstract presentations

10:40 – 11:40 Keynote lecture 3:

Marc Williams – Geisinger, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Personalized Medicine in the clinic: The Geisinger paradigm

11:40 – 12:00 Summer school conclusions

Meeting adjourns

Please download the document providing some useful logistics information from the following link

We thank the following academic, charitable and corporate entities for generously supporting this event.

Registration fees *

Double room: 790 EUR per person

Single room: 940 EUR 

Virtual attendance: 300 EUR

Registration fees include: 

Accommodation in a double/single room for the entire duration of the Summer School (4 nights), meals (breakfast, coffee breaks, lunches, dinners, welcome reception and social event), educational material, and social activities.