13th Dec – 14th Dec, 2015
Qatar National Convention Center
Alliance Global Group in collaboration with Illumina is proud to announce its participation in the Functional Genomics Symposium hosted by Sidra Medical and Research Center (Sidra), Doha, Qatar on the 13th and 14th of December, 2015. Alliance Global was gold sponsor at the event which was the first of its kind and was directed to discussing cutting edge technologies in the fields of functional genomics and genomics medicine. Impact of genetic studies on complex disorders, rare diseases and personalized medicine were also highlighted during the symposium.
The Functional Genomics Symposium also featured presentations by Dr. David Bentley, the Vice President and Chief Scientist at Illumina Inc, USA on the topic “Genomes for Medicine” and a special AGBL sponsored lunch time session by Dr. Jeff Jensen, CEO of Fluxion Biosciences, USA on the topic “Accurate somatic mutation detection applied to liquid biopsy samples”. There was also an exhibition running in parallel from world leading technologies and service providers with the presentations where Alliance Global displayed some of their Life Sciences platforms like Azure gel documentation system, MIC qPCR system by Bio Molecular Systems, Xpose by Trinean and DeNovix spectrophotometers.
This symposium was organized as part of the Sidra Symposia Series and is directed towards academia, researchers, physicians, healthcare providers and regulatory agents involved in the field of genomics and genomic medicine.