From study design to informatics in clinical precision medicine – a focus on translational biomarkers & digital health
Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology at Aalborg University
Welcome to From study design to informatics in clinical precision medicine – a focus on translational biomarkers & digital health
Program: Clinical Science, Laboratory and Translational Medicine
Description:
Omics technologies including genomics, transcriptomics, epigenetics, proteomics and metabolomics are now key technologies in multiple fields of research and a highly active domain in health and medical investigation. Omics is an interdisciplinary research field that coalesces researchers from many different areas of biomedical research into one of the most likely disciplines to successfully foster the translation of basic scientific knowledge into clinical applications for the benefit of patients.
This PhD course will focus on advanced theoretical and practical aspects of Omics strategies in Life & Medical sciences. Our focus will address the clinical study design and ethical protocol requirements to application of omics strategies to address a diverse range of medical pathologies, including but not limited to autoimmune disorders, diseases associated to neuro-inflammation and neurodegeneration as well as chronic pain conditions. Omics are currently utilized extensively to identify biomarker patterns for detection of disease risk, patient’s stratification, identification of responders to a particular treatment, or elucidation of mechanism of disease or drug action with ultimate goal of patient safety and better health outcome.
The course will be a combination of introductorily lectures, bioinformatics tutorials and laboratory demonstrations with hands-on experimental parts. Considering the value and importance of omics, and a rapidly growing trend, this course aims at providing front edge information about current advanced methodologies applied in medical omics through real-life examples. Hence, participants will be able to translate the presented strategies and methods into their own health science, and medical related research.
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