The 24th Golden Helix Pharmacogenomics Day was successfully organized in the Zappeion Meg in Athens, Greece, as a satellite event of the 3rd Greek National Personalized Medicine Conference. The meeting was co-organized by the Research and Educational Institute for Health (REdI4Health) and the Golden Helix Foundation.

This international event was open for biomedical scientists, hospital and general pharmacists, specialists, general practitioners, medical students, laboratory technicians, regulators, healthcare insurers and others interested in pharmacogenomics.

The meeting featured a keynote lecture and plenary lectures from local and international speakers on the impact of pharmacogenomics in various medical specialties, focusing in particular on the impact of pharmacogenomics in public health.

On behalf of the Organizer

The 24th Golden Helix Pharmacogenomics Day was successfully organized in the Zappeion Meg in Athens, Greece, as a satellite event of the 3rd Greek National Personalized Medicine Conference. The meeting was co-organized by the Research and Educational Institute for Health (REdI4Health) and the Golden Helix Foundation.

This international event was open for biomedical scientists, hospital and general pharmacists, specialists, general practitioners, medical students, laboratory technicians, regulators, healthcare insurers and others interested in pharmacogenomics.

The meeting featured a keynote lecture and plenary lectures from local and international speakers on the impact of pharmacogenomics in various medical specialties, focusing in particular on the impact of pharmacogenomics in public health.

On behalf of the Organizer

Organizer:

George P. Patrinos, Patras, Greece

Keynote speaker

George P. Chrousos, Athens Greece

Plenary speakers

Efthimios Deligeoroglou, Athens Greece

Konstantinos Demetzos, Athens Greece

Vasileios Fragoulakis, London, UK

Vasiliki Georgakopoulou, Athens Greece

Charalambos Gogos, Patras, Greece

Kariofyllis Karamperis, Patras, Greece

George P. Patrinos, Patras, Greece

Stavroula Siamoglou, Patras, Greece

09:00 – 10:15 Registration

10:15 – 10:30 Welcome address

10:30 – 12:30 1st session: Personalized treatment in clinical medicine 

10:30 – 11:00  Personalized treatment and nanotechnology

Konstantinos Demetzos, Professor, University of Athens School of Pharmacy, Athens Greece

11:00 – 11:30  Αnti-HPV vaccination against cervical cancer

Efthimios Deligeoroglou, Professor Emeritus, University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens Greece

11:30 – 12:00  From evidence-based to personalized medicine: The example of CoViD-19

Charalambos Gogos, Professor, University of Patras Department of Medicine, Patras, Greece

12:00 – 12:30 Personalized treatment modalities for infectious diseases

Vasiliki Georgakopoulou, Consultant pulmonologist, Pathophysiology clinic, University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens Greece

12:30 – 14:00 Light lunch

14:00 – 16:30 2nd session: Genome-guided treatment: Research and clinical reality

14:00 – 14:30  Clinical pharmacogenomics in psychiatry

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

14:30 – 15:00  Pharmacoepigenomics

Stavroula Siamoglou, Research scientist, University of Patras Department of Pharmacy, Patras, Greece

15:00 – 15:30  Disentangling the role of human origin in pharmacogenomics: Towards population pharmacogenomics

Kariofyllis Karamperis, Research scientist, University of Patras Department of Pharmacy, Patras, Greece

15:30 – 16:00  Cost effectiveness analysis in genome-guided treatment

Vasileios Fragoulakis, Senior health economist, The Golden Helix Foundation, London, UK

Keynote lecture

16:00 – 17:00 Genetics, epigenetics and culture

George P. Chrousos, Professor Emeritus, University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens Greece

17:00 – 17:15 Conclusions