Dear Colleague,
Patient to patient
variability in the response to drugs, is a well known problem in the
optimization of pharmacological management strategies. Such variability occurs both in therapeutic
outcomes as well as in the occurrence and severity of adverse reactions.
Global advances in
genetic research, have revealed inherited genetic variations which
significantly contribute to this drug response variability. Pharmacogenomic-based testing is a fast
evolving clinical tool, which aims to streamline drug treatment, by offering
ways to predict the response to a specific drug in a specific patient prior to
actual clinical administration
The GoldenHelix Institute
of Biomedical Research and the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Malta will be organizing a Pharmacogenomics Day at the University
of Malta on Saturday 3 December 2011, between 09.00 and 16.15.
You are cordially being
invited to participate in this conference, which is the fifth in a series
currently being organized internationally.
It will bring together a team of foreign and local speakers, and will
present the way forward in this fast developing field.
Registration is free of
charge. Online registration is available at http://www.goldenhelixsymposia.org,
and prospective participants are kindly requested to register in order to
ensure a place at the meeting.
For further information,
please email pgx11@um.edu.mt. - Brochure
The Malta College of
Family Doctors is awarding 3 CPD points to members who attend this meeting.
The organizing committee
would like to take this opportunity to thank all its sponsors and supporters,
without whom this conference would not have been possible.
Regards
The Organising Committee
Dr Godfrey Grech, Senior Lecturer,
Department of Pathology, University
of Malta
Dr Anthony G Fenech, Senior Lecturer,
Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University
of Malta
Dr Joseph J Borg, Lecturer, Department
of Applied Biomedical Sciences, University of Malta
Prof George P Patrinos, Assistant Professor,
Department of Pharmacy, University of Patras, Greece