Dallas, USA, May 20 – 24, 2918
Annual meeting and Exhibits
The title of the congress was: Thinking BIG in TEXAS, with the subtitul: Seazing big opportunities in biobanking through data, collaboration and innovation.
The 2018 Annual Meeting programe was very rich included seven symposia sessions, four oral Contributed Paper Sessions, an Innovative Technologies Sessions, and opportunuties to attend special workshops and additional Corporate Partner Symposia. Additional networking opportunities included: the welcome reception, discussions with vendors and interactions with poster presenters (alltogether 164 posters, from there three were from Biobank in Pilsen and Department of Immunochemistry, University Hospital Pilsen). The number of participants was really great more then 700, mainly from the USA, Canada, China and Africa. The organizers recieved 212 abstract for oral presentations, from where 28 were selected.
University Hospital in Pilsen, biobank Pilsen was introduced by one oral presentation: Kinkorová J., Dolejšová O., Fuchsová R., Topolčan O., Kučera R. a Karlíková M.: Systematic Sample Collecting Can Help with the Individualisation of Therapy (An Example of Improvement of Prostate Cancer Management), in the Contributed Paper Session 4: Advancing the Norms: Human Repositories; and three posters.
More information can be found on web pages of the conference: http://meetings.isber.org/2018/
Next Annual Meeting will be in Shanghai, May 7 – 10, 2019.
