Day 2 (22 Aug 2024)

DAY 2 – 22 AUGUST 2024 (THURSDAY)

8.30am - 9.00am (SGT)

Registration

Session 4

9.00am - 9.30am (SGT)

Plenary Talk 3

Grand Ballroom

Implementing genomic medicine into clinical practice – a national and international perspective

Prof Kathryn North

Murdoch Children's Research Institute

9.30am - 10.55am (SGT)

Biobanks for Precision Medicine

Grand Ballroom

FinnGen, an example of a Northern European large scale biobank study

Prof Aarno Palotie

Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), HiLIFE, University of Helsinki

The All of Us Research Program

Dr Geoffrey Ginsburg

All of Us Research Program, National Institutes of Health

Harnessing the power of proteomics in biobanks to advance precision health

Prof Chen Zhengming

University of Oxford

10.55am - 11.15am (SGT)

Teabreak Networking Session

Session 5

11.15am - 12.40pm (SGT)

Pharmacogenomics

Grand Ballroom

Rethinking Pharmacogenomics - Implementing Pre-emptive Pharmacogenomics in a Singapore Healthcare System

Dr Elaine Lo Ah Gi

National University Hospital

Pharmacogenomics implementation: towards precision medicine

Prof Collet Dandara

University of Cape Town

Clinical pharmacogenomics implementation in Thailand: a dream come true

Prof Chonlaphat Sukasem

Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University

12.40pm - 2.00pm (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

This section will be updated regularly.

Session 6

2.00pm - 3.20pm (SGT)

Parallel Track 1: Rare Diseases

Grand Ballroom

Singapore Undiagnosed Research Endeavour

Dr Saumya Jamuar

KK Women's and Children's Hospital

Dr Claudia Gonzaga-Jauregui

International Laboratory for Human Genome Research, UNAM

Implementing a Rare Diseases Program in Chile. What have we learned?

Dr Gabriela Repetto

Facultad de Medicina, Clinica Alemana Universidad del Desarrollo

Parallel Track 2: Biobanks for Precision Medicine

Meeting Room

Genetic analysis of quantitative traits in the Taiwan Biobank

Dr Lin Yen-Feng

National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan

How health system biobanks fit into Singapore's National Precision Medicine Program

Prof Tai E Shyong

Precision Health Research, Singapore

Challenge for Personalized Healthcare: the Tohoku Medical Megabank Project

Prof Masayuki Yamamoto

Tohoku University Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization (ToMMo)

3.20pm - 4.00pm (SGT)

Teabreak Networking Session

Session 7

4.00pm - 5.20pm (SGT)

Parallel Track 1: Training/Early Career Scientists

Grand Ballroom

Nurturing the physician-scientists needed to make precision medicine a reality

Dr Sharon Plon

Baylor College of Medicine

Nanocourse: Providing Genomics Researchers with Clinical Perspective

Prof Richard Haspel

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School

Dr Victoria (Vicky) Nembaware

University of Cape Town

Parallel Track 2: Genomic/Precision Medicine for Therapeutic R&D

Meeting Room

Dr Lyndon Mitnaul

Regeneron Genetics Center

Transforming Drug Discovery with large-scale genomics

Dr Guillermo Del Angel

AstraZeneca

Embedding multimodal discovery in pharma R&D

Dr Mark Mccarthy

Genentech

*Programme is accurate as of 25 April 2024.