Symposium: Emerging Technologies From the Bench Disrupting Diagnosis and Care Near the Bedside

Symposium: Emerging Technologies From the Bench Disrupting Diagnosis and Care Near the Bedside

Thursday, April 29, 2021 • 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (EST)

 

D. Hunter Best, PhDChair
D. Hunter Best, PhD
University of Utah

Gregory J. Tsongalis, PhDCo-Chair
Gregory J. Tsongalis, PhD
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health System

Session Description: This session will explore emerging genomic and molecular diagnostic tools that are being rapidly adopted in patient care, in the process transforming and disrupting the standard approach to clinical challenges as diverse as newborn diagnostics, microbiology, and oncology.

 

  Chair - Welcome and Introductions  
10:05 AM - 10:30 AM Precision Medicine: Where Time and Technology Meet
Gregory J. Tongalis, PhD • Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health System
Gregory J. Tsongalis, PhD
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Measuring More in Biology: Getting Signal Compression Do all the Hard Work
Aditya Rajagopal, PhD • CalTech
Aditya Rajagopal, PhD
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM Host Response and Point-of-Care Nanopore Sequencing for Diagnosis of Infections: Changing the Paradigm
Charles Chiu, MD, PhD • University of California, San Francisco
Charles Chiu, MD, PhD
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM Rapid Genomic Medicine in Pediatric ICUs: A New way of Practicing Medicine
Stephen Kingsmore, MD, DSc • Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine
Stephen Kingsmore, MD, DSc
  Questions and Answers