The 39Th Annual Conference: Immunoanalytical Days – Pilsen, Czech Republic, 11–13 March 2018

Abstract

The 39th annual conference: Immunoanalytical Days took place between 11th and 13th of March 2018 in Pilsen, Czech Republic. The title was: Personalised medicine, biobanks and biomarkers for the optimal approach to the patient. The conference was co-organized by the Czech Society of Nuclear Medicine, the Czech Society of Clinical Biochemistry, the University Hospital Pilsen and Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen and Charles University. The event attracted 150 participants from the Czech Republic and ten speakers from abroad. The program offered several main scopes of topics including personalized medicine, biobanks and biomarkers; their discovery, validation, evaluation and use of tumor biomarkers currently used in the whole process of patient’s care from prevention, prediction, early diagnosis, through treatment, treatment monitoring and follow-up monitoring.

Keywords:

• biobank
• biomarkers
• breast cancer
• cancer
• endometrial cancer
• melanoma
• ovarian cancer
• pancreatic cancer
• personalized medicine
• whole slide imaging

Financial & competing interests disclosure

Supported by Ministry of Health, Czech Republic – conceptual development of research organization (Faculty Hospital in Pilsen – FNPl, 00669806), and from European Regional Development Fund-Project BBMRI-CZ. Biobank network – a versatile platform for the research of the etiopathogenesis of diseases, number CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_013/0001674. The author has 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.

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Supported by Ministry of Health, Czech Republic – conceptual development of research organization (Faculty Hospital in Pilsen – FNPl, 00669806), and from European Regional Development Fund-Project BBMRI-CZ. Biobank network – a versatile platform for the research of the etiopathogenesis of diseases, number CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_013/0001674. The author has 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.