Pharmacogenetics and Precision Medicine Conference

(Targeted treatment, Drug response, Ethics, Cancer, Bio-banking & pharmacokinetics)

7-9 April 2016, Cape Town, South Africa

Greetings!

On the behalf of the Pharmacogenetics and Precision Medicine Conference Organising Committee, we would like to officially invite you to attend and participate at “Pharmacogenetics and Precision Medicine Conference, Cape Town, South Africa: 7-9 April 2016”. The conference is precede by a bioinformatics workshop from the 4-6th of April 2016.

Kindly register at the URL below; using the registration link provided.

If you wish to present your work at the conference, kindly send us your abstract before January 31, 2016 to our Email: . We are looking for submissions on any of the following topics or related areas;

  • Pharmacogenomics
  • Public perception of genomics and individualized therapy
  • Microbiomics and metabolomics in health and disease
  • Pharmacokinetics and pharmacometrics
  • Epigenomics in health and disease
  • Infrastructure & support of genomics research in Africa
  • Big Data, Ethics, & biobanking
  • Predictive genomics
  • Cancer genomics and stratification
  • African traditional medicine
  • Innovation management and C-level executive strategy Omics technology foresight

The Pharmacogenetics and Precision Medicine will begin with a 3 day workshop (4th-6th April 2016) on the Analysis of NGS Data for Pharmacogenomics. The workshop is aimed at individuals interested in the use of genomic data for personalizing treatment. It will include a combination of lectures and hands-on practical exercises covering topics such as NGS theory and annotation of variants. More information is provided on the website.

Should you require more information about the conference, please visit our website at or send email requests to; .

Thank you and we look forward to see you at the conference.

Collet Dandara, PhD

Division of Human Genetics, Department of Pathology & Institute for Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine

Faculty of Health Sciences, Room N3.14.4 Werner Beit

University of Cape Town

Anzio Road, Observatory7925, Cape Town

Tel: +27 21 406 6506

Fax: 27 21 650 2010