Day 1 (21 Aug 2024)
DAY 1 - 21 AUGUST 2024 (WEDNESDAY)
8.30am - 9.00am (SGT)
Registration
9.00am - 9.15am (SGT)
Welcome Address
Grand BallroomOpening Address by Guest of Honour
Grand Ballroom
Dr Janil Puthucheary
Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Communications and Information & Ministry of Health
9.15am - 9.45am (SGT)
Plenary Talk 1
Grand Ballroom
Prof Dame Sue Hill
NHS England
9.45am - 10.15am (SGT)
Teabreak Networking Session
Session 1
10.15am - 11.40am (SGT)
Ethics and Policy
Grand Ballroom
The Public Interest: Privacy vs Utility
Prof Julian Savulescu
National University of Singapore
Who is ELSA? Why does ELSI matter?!
Dr Michaela Mayrhofer
BBMRI-ERIC
Dr Angela Ballantyne
University of Otago
11.40am - 12.00pm (SGT)
Poster Session
Grand Ballroom & Foyer
12.00pm - 1.30pm (SGT)
Parallel Track 1: Lunch Time Industry Talk
Grand Ballroom
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Parallel Track 2: Lunch Time Industry Talk
Meeting Room
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Parallel Track 3: Lightning Talk (Early Career Scientist)
Wisteria & Camellia Villa
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Session 2
1.30pm - 2.00pm (SGT)
Plenary Talk 2
Grand Ballroom
Singapore National Precision Medicine Programme - Value Creation for Health and the Economy
Prof Patrick Tan
Precision Health Research, Singapore
2.00pm - 3.20pm (SGT)
Parallel Track 1: Complex Traits/Variant Resolution
Grand Ballroom
Prof Wong Limsoon
National University of Singapore
Dr Jimmy Lee
Institute of Mental Health
Assoc Prof Jonathan Berg
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Parallel Track 2: Data Driven Discovery
Meeting Room
Prof Steven Brenner
University of California, Berkeley
Decoding Cellular Intelligence To Accelerate Drug Discovery
Mr Rob Yang
CartaBio Inc
Advancing Genomic Medicine through Global Data Sharing and Collaboration
Dr Heidi Rehm
Massachusetts General Hospital and Broad Institute
3.20pm - 4.00pm (SGT)
Teabreak Networking Session
Session 3
4.00pm - 5.20pm (SGT)
Parallel Track 1: Cancer Genetics
Grand Ballroom
Prof Joanne Ngeow
National Cancer Centre Singapore
Dr William Foulkes
McGill University
Enabling Precision Medicine in resource constrained settings
Prof Datin Paduka Dr Teo Soo-Hwang
Cancer Research Malaysia
Parallel Track 2: Genomic Screening
Meeting Room
Dr Chien Yin Hsiu
National Taiwan University
What do we know about expanded reproductive carrier screening?
Prof Martin Delatycki
Murdoch Children's Research Institute
Ethical issues in genomic screening
Prof Thong Meow-Keong
Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman
*Programme is accurate as of 25 April 2024.
