Health & Medicine Webinars
Learn about the latest medical breakthroughs by participating in webinars on topics surrounding disease, prevention and treatment in accordance with the latest research in health and medicine. Updates encompass a biological, psychological and sociological understanding of health.
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SEP 24, 2014 | 6:00 AM
Transforming serious brain disease through cutting edge science, generating novel medicines that enable patients to overcome everyday challenges and achieve their full potential... -
SEP 24, 2014 | 6:00 AM
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) is an X-linked genetic disease occurring in 1 in 3,500 births, and is uniformly fatal in boys. It is caused by any one of over 50 known mutations in the gen...
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SEP 24, 2014 | 5:00 AM
Macrocycles offer a new structural class that has the potential to address challenging protein-protein interaction targets and still present attractive drug-like properties including cell mem...
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SEP 24, 2014 | 5:00 AM
Since leaving Pfizer to go back to academia in 2007, Andrew Hopkins (University of Dundee, UK) has been a leading researcher in the search for new informatics and computational methods to imp...
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AUG 21, 2014 | 2:30 PM
Rare disorder analysis has been facilitated by the declining cost of sequencing. Despite numerous success stories the underlying cause remains unexplained in >50% cases, emphasizing the ne...
AUG 21, 2014 | 12:45 PM
When whole genome and whole exome sequencing are introduced into health care, and offered directly to consumers in commercial settings, the landscape of genetic testing will drastically chang...
AUG 21, 2014 | 12:15 PM
DNASTAR offers an integrated suite of software for assembling and analyzing sequence data from all major next-generation sequencing platforms. DNASTAR software supports a variety of key workf...
AUG 21, 2014 | 11:30 AM
The comprehensive, multidimensional molecular characterization of tumors and the individuals in which they have developed is transforming cancer definition, diagnosis, treatment, and preventi...
AUG 21, 2014 | 11:30 AM
Coastal Genomics and the Hamilton Company have teamed up to combine the NIMBUS 96 channel platform with Ranger Technology to automate high throughput agarose gel electrophoresis. The new NIM...
AUG 21, 2014 | 11:15 AM
Medical applications of genetics and genomics have been advancing dramatically since completion of the sequencing of the human genome. The cost of DNA sequencing has plummeted, leading to the...
AUG 21, 2014 | 10:45 AM
For personalized genomic medicine (PGM) to be readily adopted into clinical practice, there is a need for a multidisciplinary team, and a need to educate health care professionals and the...
AUG 21, 2014 | 9:45 AM
In this presentation I describe pathway based analyses of genotyping data to identify pathways related to the development of complex diseases, with a focus on lung cancer and selected autoimm...
AUG 21, 2014 | 9:45 AM
Accurate and timely diagnosis of rejection and infection is essential for long-term survival of solid-organ transplant recipients. We evaluated the performance a novel test to monitor rejecti...
AUG 21, 2014 | 9:30 AM
Next-Generation Sequencing is enabling scientists to study the transcriptome in ways never before possible. During this session with Illumina Distinguished Scientist, Dr. Gary Schroth, you w...
AUG 21, 2014 | 8:45 AM
Whole genomic and exomics sequencing applied clinically is revealing newly discovered genes and syndromes at an astonishing rate. While clinical databases and variant annotation continue to g...
AUG 21, 2014 | 8:45 AM
Gene therapy for two forms of inherited retinal degeneration have met promising safety and efficacy endpoints in early stage clinical trials. These approaches made use of a replication defect...
