Articles Archive for October 2008
Featured, Webinars »
This webinar demonstrates how researchers can strengthen the qualification of a biomarker panel through the application of genomic reference data. Examples will be drawn from Gene Logic’s research into CNS diseases such as Major Depression and Alzheimer’s disease. These examples will include: (1) dysregulated genes that are related to aging rather than disease; (2) trace a dysregulated gene(s) from post-mortem brain tissue to peripheral blood and (3) determine whether the gene changes are disease specific.
Speaker: Jarlath ffrench-Mullen, PhD, Scientific Director, Gene Logic.
Featured, Webinars »
This webinar discusses biomarker identification of tissue injury using transcriptional profiles in blood cells. As background, examples from the literature will be presented including a case identified using some of the data in Gene Logic’s reference database. To demonstrate how biomarkers that are unique and/or shared by diseases might be discovered, studies from Gene Logic’s reference database will be used. The focus will be on white blood cells isolated from patients with autoimmune diseases including systemic lupus erythematosus, Wegener’s granulomatosis and Crohn’s disease.
Speaker: Donna Mendrick, PhD, VP Pharmacogenomics, Gene Logic.
Meet the Genomic Pioneers »
Dr. Srikanta Kumar Rath, Scientist, Genotoxicity Laboratory, Central Drug Research Institute. Dr Rath has contributed significantly to the field of molecular toxicology and understanding of disease genomics by developing assays for genotoxicity using oligonucleotides and real-time approaches. He has built a tremendous understanding of SNPs in different DNA repair genes in several subpopulations of India and an understanding of gene expression profile of Anti malarials. Dr Rath was one of the key implementors in the creation of Indian Genome Variation Consortium database (IGVdb). Dr Rath’s vision is to develop models to understand toxicity and disease effects. Dr Rath is making efforts to study toxicity and human disease parallely and to make the convergence at some point which will be useful in future for diagnosis.
InSpotlight »
The winners of the maiden edition of the Genomic Pioneer Awards were announced at the HUGO’s 13th international meeting on the Human Genome on 30 September, 2008.
The Genomic Pioneers Award winners are:
Europe: Dr. Sylvie Chauvaux, Asst Professor, Institut Pasteur, Paris.
Asia-Pacific: Dr. Juergen Pipper, Senior Scientist, Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnolog, Singapore.
India: Dr. Srikanta Kumar Rath, Scientist, Genotoxicity Laboratory, Central Drug Research Institute.
Announcing the winners Anu Acharya, CEO, Ocimum Biosolutions, congratulated all the award winners on their achievement and hoped that this would motivate many others to participate in the upcoming editions of Genomic Pioneer Awards in subsequent years.
