Next Generation Sequencing Asia 2016: Clinical Applications

Date: Thursday, 1 December 2016 - Friday, 2 December 2016
Location: Taipei, Taiwan

Keynote Speakers

Hsian-Rong Tseng
Professor, Crump Institute for Molecular Imaging, California NanoSystems Institute, University of California-Los Angeles

Alexander Pertsemlidis
Associate Professor, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

John Leite
Vice President, Product Marketing and Market Development, Oncology, Illumina

David Wong
Felix and Mildred Yip Endowed Chair in Dentistry; Director for UCLA Center for Oral/Head & Neck Oncology Research, University of California-Los Angeles

Nazneen Aziz
Executive Director, Kaiser Permanente Research Bank

Chia-Chu Pao
President, Chang Gung University

Ting-Chang Chang
President, Taiwan Precision Medicine Society

Barbara Rudolph
Partner and IP Lawyer, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP

Hui Jiang
Vice President, BGI-Research

Fred Kramer
Professor, New Jersey Medical School Rutgers University

Overview

Welcome to Next Generation Sequencing Asia 2016. This conference is being held in one of the hubs of trade and commerce in Asia -- Taipei, Taiwan. Just a short flight from most business destinations in Asia and a nonstop flight from the United States and Europe, Taipei is an excellent meeting place and venue to bring together academics and industry participants from Asia, Europe and the United States to focus on an exciting area of research: Next Generation Sequencing and its Clinical Applications in Tumor Sequencing, Circulating Tumor DNA (ctDNA) analysis, Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT), and Companion Diagnostics (CDx) development.

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Liquid Biopsy Slide Deck

This conference brings together key opinion leaders, established researchers as well as junior investigators for oral presentations, poster presentations as well as an exhibition to bring to the researchers the most up-to-date technologies and products from companies to accelerate their research.

Academics from across Asia, Europe and the United States as well as Industry Participants from companies large and small would find this two-day conference extremely valuable as a learning and networking experience.

Agenda Topics

Circulating Tumor DNA (ctDNA) for Liquid Biopsies
Clinical Deployment of NGS

Tumor Sequencing: Clinical Case Studies

Companion Diagnostics (CDx) Development
Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT)

Capture Methodologies
Fetal DNA in the Maternal Circulation

Regulatory Landscape for NGS in the Clinic: US, EU, Asia/Pacific Perspectives
Research Applications of NGS

Instrumentation Platforms
Reagents and Consumables for Research

RNA-Seq

Sponsorship and Exhibition Opportunities

Jeff Fan, Exhibition Manager
jeff@selectbioconferences.com
+1-510-857-4865

Confirmed Speakers to date

Pei-Lung Chen, Associate Professor and Attending Physician, National Taiwan University Hospital
Wen-Hung Chung, Director, Whole-Genome Research Core Laboratory of Human Diseases, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital
Joe Daniel, Oncology Leader - Asia Pacific and Japan, Thermo Fisher Scientific
H. Sunny Sun, Director/Professor, Institute of Molecular Medicine, College of Medicine; Director, Center for Genomic Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Taiwan
Chien-Hsiang Tang, R&D Director, LihPao Life Science Corp.
Joseph T. Tseng, Associate Professor, National Cheng-Kung University
Kai Wang, Principal Scientist, Institute for Systems Biology
Kevin Wang, General Manager, Oncology department, Berry Genomics Corp.
Mengchu Wu, Director of Application Development, Personal Genomics
Adam Yao, Research Scientist, Academia Sinica
Sung-Liang Yu, Professor, Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences and Medical Biotechnology, National Taiwan University College of Medicine

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