Course International School of Medical Sciences
Dal 30 e 31 maggio 2018, si svolgerà l’International School Of Medical Sciences Diretta dai Prof. Ignazio Carreca e Prof. Antonino Zichichi. Il 155th Course The New Era Of Laboratory Medicine: From Diagnosis To Clinical Management Direttto dai Prof. Marcello Ciaccio Prof. Francesco Salvatore si svolgerà presso l'Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture di Erice (Trapani).
Programma scientifico:
Wednesday, 30 May 2018
09.00 Opening remarks Welcome address by Authorities and Academicians Round Table
09.30 Laboratory Medicine between innovation and the needs of global Health Care Discussant: Annalisa Manduca
Participants: Luigi Califano (Napoli), Marcello Ciaccio (Palermo), Roberto Lagalla (Palermo), Gaetano Manfredi (Naples), Mario Plebani (Padua), Tullio Pozzan (Rome), Francesco Salvatore (Naples), Guido Trombetti (Rome) New applications for cardiac biomarkers Chairmen: Maurizio Averna (Palermo), Martina Zaninotto (Padua), Michele Mussap (Genoa)
11.00 High-sensitive troponin assays: clinical advantages and algorithms Mario Plebani (Padua)
11.20 Cardiac biomarkers and physical exercise Giuseppe Lippi (Verona)
11.40 Cardiovascular outcomes of patients with Epatitis C Antonio Craxì, Salvatore Petta (Palermo)
12.00 Monitoring cardiotoxicity of antineoplastic agents: role of biomarkers Giuseppina Novo (Palermo)
12.20 Discussion
12.45 Lunch
Wednesday, 30 May 2018
Emerging technologies and new cancer biomarkers Chairmen: Ferruccio Ceriotti (Milan), Francesco Salvatore (Naples)
15.00 Circulating tumor DNA: a promising biomarker in the liquid biopsy of cancer Maurizio Ferrari (Milan)
15.20 Liquid biopsy in the clinical management of patients with NSCLC Antonio Russo (Palermo)
15.40 Liquid biopsy as powerful tool for monitoring Breast and Ovarian Cancer patients Ettore Capoluongo (Rome)
16.00 Discussion
16.15 Coffee Break
The interface between Clinic and Laboratory Medicine in Oncology Chairmen: Antonio Russo (Palermo), Tommaso Trenti (Modena)
16.40 Pharmacogenomics in Personalized Medicine Piero Sandro Tagliaferri (Catanzaro)
17.00 Appropriateness and cancer biomarkers: health care issue or research area? Massimo Gion (Venice)
17.20 Clinical Management of Elderly people with Cancer: an Update Ignazio Carreca (Palermo)
17.40 Discussion
Thursday, 31 May 2018
Omics and the diagnostic challenges of Precision Medicine - Chairmen: Marcello Ciaccio (Palermo), Francesco Curcio (Udine)
09.00 Non-human genomes in humans Francesco Salvatore (Naples)
09.20 Application of proteomics to Systemic Amyloidosis Giampaolo Merlini (Pavia)
09.40 The intricate field of metabolomics for disease pathogenesis understanding: biomarkers and new drugs - Vassilios Fanos (Cagliari)
10.00 Discussion
10.20 Coffee Break
Advances in Molecular Diagnostics - Chairmen: Carlo Dionisi-Vici (Rome), Maurizio Ferrari (Milan)
10.40 NIPT: a new test for pregnant women - Antonio Novelli (Rome)
11.00 Genetic diagnosis of orphan diseases - Bruno Dallapiccola (Rome)
11.20 Toward personalized diagnosis and therapy in cystic fibrosis: the contribution of ex-vivo models - Giuseppe Castaldo (Naples)
11.40 Discussion
Thursday, 31 May 2018
Plenary Lecture
12.00 Noncoding RNA genes in cancer pathogenesis Carlo Croce (Columbus, OH, USA) - Chairman: Francesco Salvatore (Naples)
13.15 Lunch
Neurosciences and Laboratory Medicine - Chairmen: Sergio Bernardini (Rome), Brigida Fierro (Palermo)
15.00 Are we ready for an optimal use of CSF biomarkers for early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease? - Lucilla Parnetti (Perugia)
15.20 Tau fragments as CSF biomarkers in primary and secondary tauopathies Kina Höglund (Göteborg, SE)
16.40 Imaging markers of neurodegeneration - Caterina Tonon (Bologna)
16.00 Towards an in vivo clinical biochemistry of the Mind? - Pietro Pietrini (Lucca)
16.20 Discussion
17.00 Closing remarks and end of the Course.