The first Up Close and Personalized, International Congress on Personalized Medicine

will take place February 2-5, 2012 in Florence, Italy.

The main focus of the Up Close and Personalized Congress is to examine the essential clinical, genomic, proteomic, metabolomic, pharmacogenomic and biomarker data necessary to predict, prevent and treat major medical conditions concerning metabolism (diabetes and obesity), cardiovascular complications and cancer. In addressing the need and challenge for narrowing the gap between knowledge and clinical practice, one of the key themes will be to explore bio-informatic tools, algorithms, artificial intelligence techniques, decision support systems and other new platforms for predicting clinical outcome and better tailoring treatment modeling to the individual patient. Furthermore, as the patient is at the center of our concern we will also discuss modalities to “empower” the patient.

View the Preliminary Scientific Program
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List of Topics
The main topics of UPCP2012 will include:

• Personalized Medicine Therapy: From theory to practice
• Personalized Diagnostics platforms
• Biomarkers – in Diabetes, Cardiovascular Disorders and cancer
• Genetics, Epigenetics and Nutrigenetics in the pathophysiology of diseases
• Metabolomics and Proteomics
• Pharmacogenetics
• Targeted Therapy – Diabetes, CVD and cancer
• Data Mining – machine learning, artificial intelligence, decision support systems
• Patient Empowerment – in the era of personalized medicine

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Profile of Attendance
Speakers and participants will attend from the following fields; 

Diabetics and Metabolism 
Endocrinology
Oncology
Cardiology
Diagnostics
Health Management
Computer Science
Venture Capital
Pharmaceutical Industry

Информация взята с сайта http://www.upcp.org/