| Statistical Genomics and Data Integration for Personalized Medicine | |
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Switzerland - Ascona |
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| Hosted by: | Centro Stefano Franscini |
| Venue: | Centro Stefano Franscini |
| Dates: | May 12, 2013 through May 17, 2013 |
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Description |
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| Advances in biotechnology have made genome-scale measurements routine. A significant challenge now is to use the vast amount of data generated from these technologies to improve human health. Medicine and drug development has moved from a `one-drug-for-all’ paradigm to more individualized treatment. Personalized medicine is a rapidly developing discipline that aims to improve health outcomes based on highly refined characteristics of individual patients, such as serum biomarkers, genotype, gene expression pattern, and imaging. This interdisciplinary workshop is intended to be a forum for (i) the dissemination of cutting-edge biotechnological and methodological developments and (ii) the identification of open data analysis problems. Targeted areas for the workshop include: novel clinical trial designs for personalized medicine; statistical and machine learning methods for identifying reproducible biomarkers and genomic signatures, and for risk and outcome prediction; new strategies for analysis and integration of heterogeneous, high-dimensional data types (e.g., microarray, genotype, imaging and sequence data); applications to disease prevention, diagnosis, prognosis and therapy, especially in cancer and infectious diseases (e.g., HIV, HCV); and advances in statistical computing for these problems. Confirmed invited speakers include: Keith Baggerly (MD Anderson), Victor DeGruttola (Harvard), Susan Murphy (University of Michigan), Chris Sander (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center), Rainer Spang (University of Regensburg), Terry Speed (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Biomedical Research), Simon Tavare (Cancer Research UK), with others still pending. Contributed presentations will also be welcome. More details and pre-registration instructions are available at http://www.cbg.ethz.ch/news/ascona2013 We strongly encourage pre-registration, in previous years places have filled up quickly. |
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| Additional Information | |
| Event URL: | http://www.cbg.ethz.ch/news/ascona2013 |
| ISCB Member Discount: | None |
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