Maurice Wilkins Centre's New Zealand personalised medicine symposium Event as iCalendar
18 November 2011
9am - 4:30pm
Venue: Fisher and Paykel Appliances Auditorium, OGGB 260-115, 12 Grafton Road
Personalised medicine is the future of healthcare – and it’s already here. For instance in New Zealand and around the world some cancer drugs are already being targeted to particular patients based on the characteristics of their disease. Personalised medicine offers the opportunity for better targeting of therapies, and we can expect to see a lot more of it in coming years.
The New Zealand Personalised Medicine Symposium – convened by the Maurice Wilkins Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery – will bring together scientists, clinicians and other health professionals. It will outline personalised healthcare as it is currently practiced in the clinic and how it is predicted to progress over the next decade.
Sessions will focus on ‘Targeted therapy in the clinic’, ‘Patient & tumour individuality’, ‘Detecting disease and monitoring treatment’ and ‘Tumour interactions with their hosts’.
Associate Professor Thomas Deisboeck (Harvard Medical School) will give a keynote presentation on
‘Multiscale cancer modelling: applications for drug target discovery’.
A panel discussion at the end of the day will give the audience the opportunity to ask experts how New Zealand can prepare for targeted delivery of healthcare in the future.
The programme, details of confirmed speakers and further information for registrants is available on the
Maurice Wilkins Centre's website
There is no charge to register for the meeting, but for organisational purposes please confirm your attendance by Tuesday 15 November to:
Peter Lai
Email:
Phone: (09) 923 3180
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