The 2nd UPGx Personalized Medicine Day will be organized in Vienna, Austria The meeting will be co-organized from the Golden Helix Foundation and the University of Vienna, both partners of the Ubiquitous Pharmacogenomics (UPGx) project, funded by the European Commission (H2020-668353).

The theme of this meeting is “Making personalized medicine available to every citizen“.

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

On behalf of the Organizing Committee

Co-organized by:

Funded by:

 

 

 

The 2nd UPGx Personalized Medicine Day will be organized in Vienna, Austria The meeting will be co-organized from the Golden Helix Foundation and the University of Vienna, both partners of the Ubiquitous Pharmacogenomics (UPGx) project, funded by the European Commission (H2020-668353).

The theme of this meeting is “Making personalized medicine available to every citizen“.

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

On behalf of the Organizing Committee

Co-organized by:

Funded by:

Organizing Committee

Matthias Samwald, Medical University of Vienna, Austria

Gere Sunder-Plassman, Medical University of Vienna, Austria

Federico Innocenti, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Invited speakers and moderators

Keynote lecture

Magnus Ingelman-Sundberg, Stockholm, SE

Plenary lectures

Vita Dolzan, Ljubljana, SI

Bob Freimuth, Rochester, MN, USA

Federico Innocenti, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Rainer Oberbauer, Vienna, AT

George P. Patrinos, Patras, GR

Sabine Obrecht-Pock, AT

Matthias Samwald, Vienna, AT

Jesse Swen, Leiden, NL

Scientific Program

8:30 – 9:30 Registration

Moderator: Matthias Samwald

Medical University of Vienna

9:30 – 9:50 Welcome address

Markus Muller; Rector; Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

9:50 – 10:20 Making pharmacogenomics available to every patient everywhere: The Ubiquitous Pharmacogenomics Project

Jesse Swen; Associate Professor; Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands

10:20 – 10:50 Personalized medicine at Mayo Clinic

Bob Freimuth; Assistant Professor; Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

10:50 – 11:10 Coffee/Tea break

11:10 – 11:50 Keynote lecture: Integrating rare genetic variants into pharmacogenomics advice

Magnus Ingelman-Sundberg; Professor; Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

11:50 – 12:20 Public Health Pharmacogenomics: Expediting clinical implementation of pharmacogenomics

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

12:20 – 13:20 Lunch Break

Moderator: Gere Sunder-Plassmann

Medical University of Vienna

13:20 – 13:40 My journey as a pharmacist-gone-patient

Mag. Sabine Obrecht-Pock; Pharmacist; Vienna, Austria

13:40 – 14:50 Round table discussion Introducing personalized medicine into clinical practice: hopes and realities

Participants: Vita Dolzan, Federico Innocenti, George P. Patrinos, Magnus Ingelman-Sundberg, Jesse Swen

14:50 – 15:20 Coffee/Tea break

15:20 – 15:50 A lot of discovery and little application of genetic markers of drug response in oncology

Federico Innocenti; Associate Professor; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

15:50 – 16:20 Determining alloimmune response using a personalized medicine approach

Rainer Oberbauer; Professor; Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

16:20 – 16:30 Closing remarks

Matthias Samwald, Medical University of Vienna, Austria

Registration

Registration to attend this conference is free of charge.