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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MAY 23, 2024 | 12:00 AM

Session 2: The Scalable dPCR Solution: QuantStudio Absolute Q...

Webinar Agenda: Foundations of digital PCR - unlocking the power of consistency for improved accuracy in analysis and applications Dave Bauer Product Applications Specialist dPCR, Thermo Fis...

Speaker: Dana Donnenwirth , Chandler Walker , Dave Bauer

Presented at: For the Love of Digital PCR 2024
Sponsored By: Thermo Fisher Scientific

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MAY 22, 2024 | 9:00 AM

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Transforming DR-TB Detection with tNGS: Evidence, Cost Analysis,...

Tuberculosis (TB) remains a leading global infectious disease killer, second only to COVID-191. It is an airborne disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria and is responsible for...

Speaker: Anita Suresh , Dr. Alice Zwerling , Dr. Shaheed Vally Omar

Sponsored By: Illumina

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MAY 22, 2024 | 8:00 AM

Reaching Precision in Cancer Therapy Through Patient-Derived MicroOrganoSpheres,...

Precision medicine aims to match the right therapy to the right patient at the right time, improving efficacy and reducing side effects. In this webinar, Dr. Hsu discusses his work to develo...

Speaker: Ryan Mote, PhD , David Hsu, PhD

Sponsored By: Sony Biotechnology

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MAY 17, 2024 3:30 PM ET

PCR for 35% Less-Now!

Introducing the full Thomas Brand PCR Workflow, from highly technical equipment to consumables and chemicals for less with delivery now....

Speaker: Lena Pederson , Vanessa Vance

Presented at: The Thomas Experts Series & The Thomas Center Labs
Sponsored By: Thomas Scientific, Thomas Scientific

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MAY 16, 2024 | 3:00 PM

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Unveiling Prostate Cancer: Pathology, Biomarkers, and Treatments

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men and is second most common cause of cancer deaths. Importantly, the annual rates of prostate cancer incidence continue to rise. This session w...

Speaker: Dr. George Thomas

Presented at: Precision Medicine in Solid Tumors

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MAY 16, 2024 | 9:00 AM

Illumina Innovation: The making of XLEAP-SBS™ Chemistry from concept...

The burden of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has been acknowledged worldwide by leading healt• In this webinar Pietro Gatti, Associate Director & Future Tech Strategy Lead is joined...

Speaker: Pietro Gatti, PhD , Natasha Crake , Chris Winnard , Antoine Francais , Angelica Mariani , Adam Culley

Sponsored By: Illumina

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MAY 15, 2024 | 3:00 PM

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Panel Presentation: Update on Emerging HIV Drug Resistance to...

Effective control of the spread of HIV depends on using the right antiretroviral drugs. In 2019, the World Health Organization recommended using the integrase inhibitor, dolutegravir (DTG),...

Speaker: Obiageli Okafor, MD, DrPH, MPH, Moderator , Leonard Kingwara, MPH, PhD , Francois Venter, MD, FCP, PhD , Bilaal Wilson Matola, MD, MPH

Presented at: Precision Medicine: Genomics, Genetics & Molecular Diagnostics Virtual Event Series 2024
Sponsored By: Thermo Fisher Scientific

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MAY 15, 2024 | 2:00 PM

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Key Financial Viability Considerations for Laboratorians Considering...

Laboratories use the same laboratory equipment they invested in for COVID testing to perform PGx testing. With COVID testing reimbursement dropping, many laboratorians are considering implem...

Speaker: Becky Winslow, BS, PharmD

Presented at: Precision Medicine: Genomics, Genetics & Molecular Diagnostics Virtual Event Series 2024
Sponsored By: Thermo Fisher Scientific

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MAY 15, 2024 | 2:00 PM

Enabling Spatial Biology at Scale with In-Situ Sequencing on the...

In-situ multiomics is revolutionizing research in oncology, immunology and neurobiology. However, speed and throughput are major bottlenecks for these critical studies. Here, we present data...

Speaker: Rahul Lodhavia

Presented at: Precision Medicine: Genomics, Genetics & Molecular Diagnostics Virtual Event Series 2024
Sponsored By: Singular Genomics

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MAY 15, 2024 | 1:00 PM

GenScript's Response to the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic: Innovations in...

Join us as we delve into the forefront of SARS-CoV-2 diagnostics and GenScript's transformative impact in the fight against COVID-19. We'll discuss the emergence of COVID-19 and GenS...

Speaker: Amanda Grimm, B.S., PSM

Presented at: Precision Medicine: Genomics, Genetics & Molecular Diagnostics Virtual Event Series 2024
Sponsored By: GenScript

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MAY 15, 2024 | 1:00 PM

Advancing Oligo Therapeutics Drug Development

Oligonucleotide therapeutics have emerged as a promising novel class of drugs to treat a wide range of diseases. The development of these therapeutics relies on the proper use of chemical bu...

Speaker: Gary Held

Presented at: Precision Medicine: Genomics, Genetics & Molecular Diagnostics Virtual Event Series 2024
Sponsored By: Thermo Fisher Scientific

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MAY 15, 2024 | 12:00 PM

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Knowledge is Power: Unveiling Women's Vaginal and Sexual Health...

Women experience a variety of unique sexual health issues that are often under appreciated by the general public and even by healthcare providers. Compared to other populations, cisgender wo...

Speaker: Olivia Van Gerwen, MD, MPH

Presented at: Precision Medicine: Genomics, Genetics & Molecular Diagnostics Virtual Event Series 2024
Sponsored By: Thermo Fisher Scientific

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MAY 15, 2024 | 12:00 PM

Gaining Multi-Dimensional Insights into Cancer Heterogeneity:...

Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) and circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) have each gained attention as promising liquid biopsy markers, offering molecular insights into cancer progression, overall s...

Speaker: Yoon-Tae Kang, PhD , Abiodun Bodunrin, PhD

Presented at: Precision Medicine: Genomics, Genetics & Molecular Diagnostics Virtual Event Series 2024
Sponsored By: Bio-Rad Laboratories

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MAY 15, 2024 | 10:30 AM

Panel Presentation: Mitigating Variability in Somatic Variant...

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) oncology panels are becoming integral in hospital and academic settings to guide patient treatment and enrollment in clinical trials. But as NGS is increasin...

Speaker: Jenni Fairley, PhD , Jim Hayes, PhD , Sheryl Elkin, PhD , Richard White, PhD , Kathryn Bungartz, PhD

Presented at: Precision Medicine: Genomics, Genetics & Molecular Diagnostics Virtual Event Series 2024
Sponsored By: QIAGEN

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MAY 15, 2024 | 10:30 AM

Nucleic Acid Agarose Gel Electrophoresis: Techniques, Innovations,...

Nucleic acid agarose gel electrophoresis is a fundamental technique in molecular biology, boasting a rich history of advancements and innovations spanning over half a century. This technique...

Speaker: Paulius Palaima

Presented at: Precision Medicine: Genomics, Genetics & Molecular Diagnostics Virtual Event Series 2024
Sponsored By: Thermo Fisher Scientific

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MAY 15, 2024 | 9:00 AM

Unveiling Tumor Immune Landscape: Using Multiplexed Whole-Tissue...

Immunotherapies, including immune checkpoint inhibitors, have emerged as promising treatments for advanced cancers. However, a subset of patients exhibits resistance to such therapies, and t...

Speaker: Vasundhara Agrawal

Sponsored By: Leica Microsystems

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MAY 15, 2024 | 9:00 AM

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Keynote Presentation: Enabling Precision Health At Scale For All

The last 20 years have seen an explosion of genetic information and data. New technological advances have made it faster and less expensive to understand the human genomes but most of those...

Speaker: Carlos D. Bustamante, PhD

Presented at: Precision Medicine: Genomics, Genetics & Molecular Diagnostics Virtual Event Series 2024

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MAY 15, 2024 | 7:30 AM

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Keynote Presentation: Closing the Gap: Solving Complex Medically...

Comprehending the mechanism behind human diseases with an established heritable component represents the forefront of personalized medicine. Nevertheless, numerous medically important genes...

Speaker: Medhat Mahmoud, PhD

Presented at: Precision Medicine: Genomics, Genetics & Molecular Diagnostics Virtual Event Series 2024

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MAY 15, 2024 | 6:30 AM

Navigating Norovirus - From Seasonal Surges to Swift Diagnosis!...

Norovirus is a highly contagious virus and stands as the primary cause of acute gastroenteritis leading to vomiting and diarrhea across all age groups in the United States. Outbreaks of noro...

Speaker: Océane Sorel, DVM, PhD

Presented at: Precision Medicine: Genomics, Genetics & Molecular Diagnostics Virtual Event Series 2024
Sponsored By: Thermo Fisher Scientific

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MAY 15, 2024 | 6:00 AM

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Keynote Presentation: History and Future of Tier 1 Genomic Population...

The Genomes2People Research Program (G2P), led by Robert Green at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the Broad Institute, Ariadne Labs, and Harvard Medical School, conducts research to acce...

Speaker: Robert C. Green, MD, MPH

Presented at: Precision Medicine: Genomics, Genetics & Molecular Diagnostics Virtual Event Series 2024

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Using Metatranscriptomics Based Microbial Functional Pathways...

RNA is dynamic and essential to biological functions. Metatransrciptome captures gene expression (RNAs) of all active microbes in an environment. We care not just 'who is there', but...

Speaker: Lan Hu, PhD

Presented at: Precision Medicine: Genomics, Genetics & Molecular Diagnostics Virtual Event Series 2024

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Combined Clinical Use of "OMICS"

Genomics, epigenomics and transcriptomics are often thought of as independent fields, but in our clinical practice we use them combined to increase diagnostic yield both for constitutional a...

Speaker: Peter Lajos Nagy, MD, PhD

Presented at: Precision Medicine: Genomics, Genetics & Molecular Diagnostics Virtual Event Series 2024

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Comprehensive Genomics Analysis at Scale

Research and medical genomics require comprehensive and scalable solutions to drive the discovery of novel disease targets, evolutionary drivers, and genetic markers with clinical significan...

Speaker: Sairam Behera, PhD

Presented at: Precision Medicine: Genomics, Genetics & Molecular Diagnostics Virtual Event Series 2024

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Bridging Women's Health and Genomics in EHR Biobanks: Precision...

This talk will explore the integration of genomics with electronic health records (EHRs) in biobanks, emphasizing its potential to enhance women's health research. We'll delve into h...

Speaker: Shefali Setia Verma, PhD

Presented at: Precision Medicine: Genomics, Genetics & Molecular Diagnostics Virtual Event Series 2024

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Computational Reasoning for the N-of-1 Use of Molecularly Targeted...

The personalized treatment of each cancer patient with targeted therapies selected based on our understanding of the molecular biology of cancer has been the long-standing goal of precision...

Speaker: Istvan Petak, MD, PhD

Presented at: Precision Medicine: Genomics, Genetics & Molecular Diagnostics Virtual Event Series 2024

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Fantastic World of Tandem Repeats and How to Characterize Them

Tandem repeats are hard to assess but important regions on the human genome. There are around 200 pathogenic and phenotypic tandem repeats, which are often ignored by standard analysis. Furt...

Speaker: Fritz Sedlazeck, PhD

Presented at: Precision Medicine: Genomics, Genetics & Molecular Diagnostics Virtual Event Series 2024

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MAY 14, 2024 | 9:00 AM

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Uncovering Novel Immune Landscapes in Ovarian Cancer with Spatial...

Survival rates for patients with high grade serous carcinoma of the ovary (HGSC) have stagnated for the past fifty years. Despite the presence of tumor mutations and infiltration of immune c...

Speaker: Riley Arseneau, BSc , Sarah Nersesian, MSc

Sponsored By: Akoya Biosciences

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