Multidisciplinary molecular diagnostics: the 9^th European meeting on molecular diagnostics

ABSTRACT

This report presents a summary of the 9^th European Meeting on Molecular Diagnostics held in Noordwijk, The Netherlands, 14-16 October 2015. This 3-day conference covered many relevant topics in the field of molecular diagnostics in humans, including infectious disease, oncology, outbreak management, population-based cancer screening, standardization and quality control, chronic diseases and pharmacogenetics. Beyond these different areas, shared values are new technologies and novel technical and clinical applications. Approximately 450 participants, the majority coming from European countries, attended the meeting. Besides high quality scientific presentations, more than 35 diagnostic companies presented their latest innovations, altogether in an informal and inspiring scientific ambience.

KEYWORDS:

• Molecular diagnostics
• oncology
• infectious diseases
• next generation sequencing
• pharmacogenetics
• quality control
• population-based screening

Financial & competing interests disclosure

R Schuurman and AJC van den Brule are members of the organizing committee of the European Meeting on Molecular Diagnostics. The authors have no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript apart from those disclosed.