Events

Venue: le Chatelain All Suite Hotel, Brussels

Venue: London

Health Sector

Venue: Cape Town, S Africa

Venue: Royal Society London

Venue: Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, USA

Cambridge Startup Weekend , March 11-13, 2011, St John's Innovation Centre
Got an idea for a business? Got the skills to help turn an idea into reality? Cambridge Startup Weekend is the event that brings people with ideas and skills together to make things happen. An intense 54 hour event, it focuses on building a web or mobile application which could form the basis of a credible business over the course of a single weekend. Held between March 11-13, it brings together software developers, web and graphics designers, marketing and business people to build applications, develop a commercial case around them and have fun while doing it. Whether you are a developer or a designer looking for a new challenge, someone thinking of founding a start-up or a student, the Cambridge Startup Weekend is the perfect event for you.

The focus of this meeting is Genomics of Human Diversity and Hereditable Disorders. 1500 international delegates are expected with strong turnout from the region as HGM 2011 is regarded as an important milestone for the region and definitely the first international genomics and genetics congress in the Arab world.

Topics covered will include next generation technologies and its impact on genomic biology and genomic medicine. RNA biology and epigenomics will also be prominently featured as well as the medical implications of human variation. Participants will be able to meet with decision makers, both senior and young established scientist, medical and healthcare professionals as well as government officials and personnel.

Venue: Dubai, UAE

Venue: Dubai, UAE

Genetic Alliance is now accepting applications for the Advocates Partnership Program at the ACMG Annual Clinical Genetics Meeting, March 16-20 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. This program is specifically designed to foster collaborations between genetics professionals and the advocacy community (including disease-specific and community organization leaders and individuals and family members affected by genetic conditions). 

The Advocates Partnership Program with ACMG provides advocates with a different access point to medical genetics: individuals will not only attend the ACMG Annual Clinical Genetics Meeting March 16-20, 2011 in Vancouver, but also build upon their experiences by engaging with Genetic Alliance staff, ACMG leadership, and genetics professionals in intimate, collaborative forums throughout the meeting. These dialogues can lead to energetic brainstorming around
solutions and improvements to enable health systems to better meet the needs of individuals, families, and communities. For more information about the ACMG Annual Clinical Genetics Meeting, please visithttp://www.acmgmeeting.net/.

Participation in the Advocates Partnership Program includes waived, free registration to the annual meeting and a $250 travel stipend. The deadline to apply for the program is Friday, February 4, 2011. Please find attached the event flier and application. 

Venue: Babbage Lecture Theatre, Cambridge

Theme: From eponym and acronym to mechanistic taxonomy, hosted by the Department of Clinical Neurosciences.

Includes poster presentations, plenary speakers and symposia sessions

Venue: American University, Dubai

 The workshop is supported by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Advanced Courses and HUGO, and we extend to you the opportunity to nominate yourself, colleagues or members of your laboratory to apply. It is open to everyone registered for HGM2011 and researchers in Dubai and neighbouring countries. This course is limited to 30 participants and will be held in English.

Venue: The Barbican, London

This event is CPD certified 

Bridget Rosewell - 2020 Public Services Trust Commissioner is confirmed to speak at Redesigning Local Services: Change for the Better

The Comprehensive Spending Review has emphasised the need to reshape public services, shifting power to local authorities. The reform agenda presents a great challenge, but also an opportunity to change things for the better. To work, reform must be based on long-term, strategic principles, and around the needs of local people. Engaging the community, breaking down the barriers between local government and the taxpayer, is essential in ensuring the right changes are made. The Big Society is all about giving citizens and local government the power to build the Britain they want.

Redesigning Local Services: change for the better will look carefully at governance, management, design and the implications of a radical change in how local services are delivered. With a programme of excellent speakers, including case studies from innovative councils, this is an essential event for all local authorities.

Venue: The Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge UK

Venue: the Barbican, London

Health Secretary Andrew Lansley has a vision of society working together to ensure that the whole of the population becomes healthier and lives longer. Public health issues have been put high on the Coalition's agenda with plans for a new 'Public Health Service', which is to be run by a sub-department within the Department of Health.

The New Public Health Service: a vision for a healthier nation conference will examine and discuss how the new service will operate and what impact its policies and strategies will have on population health.

Venue: University of Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain

This conference will address a range of critically important themes in the various fields that address the complex and subtle relationships between technology, knowledge and society. The conference is cross-disciplinary in scope, meeting points for technologists with a concern for the social and social scientists with a concern for the technological. The focus is primarily, but not exclusively, on information and communications technologies.

Plenary Speakers Include:
- Javier Echeverria, Instituto de Filosofia of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Madrid, Spain
- Langdon Winner, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,  Troy, USA
- Javier Caceres, General Director, Ineustar - Industrias de la Ciencia Bilbao, Spain
- Luis Sanz, Director, Unidad de Políticas Comparadas - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC), Madrid, Spain
- Icaro Moyano, Director of Communication, Tuenti, Madrid, Spain

Venue: Bochum, Germany

The BMBF Junior Research Group “Justice in Modern Medicine” at the Institute for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine (Director: Prof. Dr. Dr. Jochen Vollmann) invites applications for presentations at the international and interdisciplinary conference “Justice in Modern Health Care. Perspectives for the 21st Century” taking place from 28-30 March 2011 at the University of Bochum, Germany.

The conference includes keynote lectures, plenary sessions, and parallel sessions. The conference language is English. Further details and the programme will be announced soon.

Venue: Geneva

The DIA EuroMeeting is global in scope, attracts more than 3,000 professionals from over 50 countries and brings together professionals from the biopharmaceutical industry, contract service organisations, clinical research, regulatory agencies, health ministries, patient organisations and universities to network with professional colleagues from around the world.

http://www.spanishdili.uma.es/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=161:23rd-annual-euromeeting-28-30-march-2011-geneva-switzerland&catid=35:general&Itemid=55&lang=es

Venue: Bochum, Germany

The BMBF Junior Research Group “Justice in Modern Medicine” at the Institute for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine (Director: Prof. Dr. Dr. Jochen Vollmann) invites applications for presentations at the international and interdisciplinary conference “Justice in Modern Health Care. Perspectives for the 21st Century” taking place from 28-30 March 2011 at the University of Bochum, Germany.

Venue: Main council chamber, Cardiff University, Cardiff

A lecture given by Professor Allen D. Roses, the former Senior Vice President of GlaxoSmithKlein and the leader of the team who identified APOE as a major, widely confirmed susceptibility gene in common late-onset Alzheimer's disease.