Pharmacogenetics

Minerva School on Pharmacogenetics: Improving the safety and efficacy of medicines

Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel June 21 - 24, 2009 ... more conferences

Pharmacogenetics offers a potential for improved healthcare through safer and more effective medicines and personalized drug and dosage choices. This Minerva School will offer students an updated look on current knowledge on pharmacogenetics, as well as on current obstacles and challenges which delay the clinical uptake of pharmacogenetics.

Confirmed Speakers:
Shlomo Almog, Sheba Medical Center and Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Dan Berkowitz, MIGAL, Israel
Juliane Bolbrinker, Charite University Medicine, Berlin , Germany
Jurgen Brockmoller, University of Gottingen, Germany
Ingolf Cascorbi, University Kiel, Germany
Uwe Fuhr, University of Cologne, Germany
David Goldstein, Duke University, NC, USA
David Gurwitz, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Hilel Halkin, Sheba Medical Center and Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Shai Izraeli, Sheba Medical Center and Tel-Aviv University, Israel
David Karasik, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Julia Kirchheiner, University of Ulm, Germany
Klaus Lindpaintner, Roche Diagnostics, Geneva, Switzerland
Ariel Miller, Technion, Israel
Catherine Payne, Manchester University, UK
Gideon Rechavi, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Amnon Shabo, IBM labs, Haifa, Israel
Noam Shomron, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Timothy Spector, King’s College London, UK
Matthias Schwab, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Andre Uitterlinden, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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