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May 2016

1st International Congress on Personalized Health Care

The 1st International Congress on Personalized Health Care will be held in Montréal, Canada, from June 12 to 15, 2016. This world showcase will bring together some 1000 specialists in order to share ideas and pool resources with regard to the development of personalized health care. This global hub will focus on the challenges of developing and implementing personalized health care. Its content and dynamic presentation format will make for an event that is truly unique.

Gene Researcher For A Week

CIHR- Institute of Genetics will team up with the Canadian Gene Cure Foundation to select motivated high school students in grades 11 and 12 and place them in labs of influential scientists for one week over Spring Break. This experience gives young students a once in a lifetime opportunity to work alongside premiere research scientists.

December 2015

5th Canadian Human and Statistical Genetics Meeting

Announcing the 2016 Canadian Human and Statistical Genetics Meeting

November 2015

8th Canadian Developmental Biology Conference

8th Canadian Developmental Biology Conference - March 17-20, 2016

September 2015

Trainee Opportunities

The Division of Translational Therapeutics under the leadership of Dr. Bruce Carleton, and based at the Child & Family Research Institute (CFRI) in Vancouver, BC is seeking trainees in the areas of drug safety, drug effectiveness and drug policy.

August 2015

Call for Consultation on Strategic Framework for Canadian Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (B/CB)

The B/CB Advisory Committee is currently soliciting feedback from the B/CB community, users and receptors through the Bioinformatics web portal. We encourage everyone interested in the future of B/CB in Canada to review the strategic framework and provide feedback through the consultation website above by Friday, September 25, 2015.

July 2015

The 1st International Congress on Personalized Health Care

The 1st International Congress on Personalized Health Care will be held in Montreal from June 12 to 14, 2016

May 2015

RDMM Network

On behalf of the Clinical Advisory Committee of the Rare Diseases: Models and Mechanisms Network, the Co-Chairs would like to invite applications from clinicians and clinician scientists who have discovered novel genes in patients with rare diseases and wish to collaborate with a model organism investigator who is able to carry out functional analysis on an orthologous gene in a model system.

February 2015

9th Annual Human Genetics Student Society Conference

9th Annual Human Genetics Student Society Conference
Friday, March 13th 2015 - "Exploring Non-Coding RNA Function"

November 2014

Sharing Big Data for Biomedical Discovery

Sharing Big Data for Biomedical Discovery: Advancing the Objectives of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health

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