Organiser

Gert-Jan van Ommen: Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands

Introduction

BBMRI is a preparatory phase project funded by the 7th Framework Program of the European Commission. Its mission is to prepare for the construction of a pan-European Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources Research Infrastructure (BBMRI) for biomedical and biological research, building on existing infrastructures, resources and technologies, specifically complemented with innovative components and properly embedded into European ethical, legal and societal frameworks.

The conference "BBMRI -Biobanking for Science” brings together leading scientists in the field, young scientists, biobanking managers and practitioners to discuss the science and new approaches in cutting edge biobank research. The conference begins on Thursday, September 23 with a keynote address by Professor Daan Hommes from Leiden University Medical Center on integration of hospital care and biobanking. On the following days, two other high level key note speeches will be presented. On day 2, Professor Thomas Hudson (President and Scientific Director of the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research) will present new results in cancer research under a title “Translating cancer genomes into personalized health and disease management”. The conference will end with a keynote lecture by Professor David Cox from Pfizer highlighting the industrial perspective of biobanking.

The conference will provide results and solutions from biobanking related research with inside views on the upcoming revolution in the developing and emerging technologies, including new generation sequencing, proteomics, metabolomics, systems biology, bioinformatics and data mining as well as data protection. These sessions will be complemented by networking and knowledge transfer opportunities between members of industry, academic medical research and policy makers. More than 250 participants are expected to attended the conference in Amsterdam to exchange information about the biological and genetic disease mechanisms, to improve the delineation of clinical phenotypes and to establish biomarker spectra for disease prognosis and therapy.

Programme

The agenda can be downladed as a pdf here.

Invited Speakers

“Examples of success stories” (clinical outcomes)
Organised by Markus Perola, Anne Cambon-Thomsen and Erich Wichmann
Proposed speakers:
-Kári Stefánsson (President, Chairman, CEO of deCODE Genetics)
-Heribert Schunkert (Professor of Clinic for Internal Medicine, University of Luebeck)
-Mark McCarthy (Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism and the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics)

“Bioinformatics and data/text mining” (challenges and solutions)
Organised by Jan-Eric Litton and Erik Bongcam-Rudloff
Proposed speakers:
-Barend Mons (NBIC, Leiden University Medical Centre)
-Hakon Guobjartsson (deCODE Genetics)
-Klaus Kuhn (Chair of Medical Informatics and Director, Institute for Medical Statistics and Epidemiology at the Technische Universität München)
-Juha Muilu (Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland)

“IT related data protection” (issues and solutions, new technologies to implement data protection)
Organised by Jan-Eric Litton, Jasper Bovenberg and Andres Metspalu
Proposed speakers:
-Ruth Chadwick (Cardiff University)
-David Goldstein (IGSP Center for Human Genome Variation, Duke University)
-speaker regarding implementation of data protection TBA

“New developments and emerging technologies in the field of biobanking” (Next generation sequencing, proteomics, metabolomics etc.)
Organised by Gert-Jan van Ommen, Ulf Landegren and Mike Taussig
Proposed speakers:
-Ruedi Aebersold (Professor of Molecular Systems Biology at ETH-Zürich and the Faculty of Sciences, University of Zürich)
-Michael Stratton (Deputy Director of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute)
-Paul Flicek (European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge)
-Thomas Illig (Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Group leader in the Institute of Epidemiology)

Venue

The conference will take place at the Novotel Amsterdam City Hotel which is a 4-star hotel in the heart of Amsterdam's business district, right by the Amsterdam RAI Exhibition and Convention Center and close to the WTC. RAI station is only a short walk away and offers frequent connections to Amsterdam city center and Schiphol airport.

Contact details:

Novotel Amsterdam City Hotel
Europaboulevard 10
1083 AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS
Tel (+31)20/5411123 Fax (+31)20/6462823
E-mail H0515@accor.com
Hotel Manager : Mr Remco GROENHUYZEN

Registration

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