High profile speakers present how precision medicine is being used in various diseases, and how pharmacogenetics is being implemented in the clinic to improve healthcare in the UK, programme below.
There are opportunities to exhibit your expertise at the event, contact cjmcn@liverpool.ac.uk for more information
Fees apply to register and exhibit; all proceeds go to maintaining the Network
8 CPD accreditation from Royal College of Physicians
| SESSION 1: Emerging concepts | Prof Sir Munir Pirmohamed |
| Welcome | Professor Sir Munir Pirmohamed |
| Mitochondrial genome and precision medicine | Prof Patrick Chinnery |
| Epigenomic profiling in rheumatic diseases | Prof Carl Goodyear |
| Modelling Alzheimer’s disease for drug discovery | Dr Rebecca Sims |
| SESSION 2: PGx Implementation in the 4 nations | |
| England | Vicky Chaplin |
| Scotland | Prof Sandosh Padmanabhan |
| Wales | Sian Morgan |
| Northern Ireland | Prof Ian Young |
| SESSION 3: Neurodegenerative diseases | |
| Standards of care for spinal muscular atrophy:
The Patient’s Perspective |
Portia Thorman |
| Novel therapies in spinal muscular atrophy | Dr Vasantha Gowda |
| Precision medicine approaches to motor neuron disease | Prof Dame Pamela Shaw |
| Neurofilaments and neurodegeneration | Dr Axel Petzold |
| SESSION 4: Complex diseases | |
| Health economics of genomic technologies | Prof Sarah Wordsworth |
| Genomics of inflammatory bowel disease | Prof Holm Uhlig |
| Omics approaches in adrenal disease | Prof Wiebke Arlt |
| Close | Professor Sir Munir Pirmohamed |