ClinPGx 2024 Registration and Abstract Submission Open

 

REGISTRATION OPEN

In collaboration with CPIC, PharmGKB, PharmCAT and PharmVar, the Penn Institute for Biomedical Informatics will be hosting the ClinPGx 2024: Knowledge, Implementation, Education meeting on June 20th and 21st, 2024 in Philadelphia, PA. This meeting will provide educational content to cover all aspects of PGx implementation, including knowledgebases, implementation strategy, informatics, use of AI in precision medicine, clinical laboratory insights, and more.

Participants are invited to submit abstracts for the poster sessions. You must be registered for the meeting before your abstract will be accepted.

Please note breakfast & lunch will be provided all conference days.

Registration and detailed agenda

REMINDERS / DEADLINES:

March 22, 2024: Deadline for Abstract Submission. Abstract submission form link here.

April 30, 2024: Deadline for $350 Registration Fee (Starting May 1st, registration fee will be $450)

May 20, 2024: Deadline for Hotel Reservations. Click HERE for hotels offering special rates.

June 1, 2024: Deadline to register for the event.

ClinPGx Sessions at PGRN 2023 Conference and ClinGen Summer Workshops

At the upcoming PGRN 2023 annual conference in Memphis, Dr. Teri E. Klein, the principle investigator for PharmGKB, ClinGen, CPIC and PharmCAT,  will hold a town hall discussion on ClinPGx: a single integrated resource for Pharmacogenomics (PGx). Dr. Klein will discuss the challenge of the separation of pharmacogenomic resources from clinical genomic resources, and present a long-term, conceptual framework for broadly integrating the available PGx resources into a single resource, ClinPGx. 

Dr. Klein will also present at the upcoming ClinGen 2023 Summer Workshop Series on June 16 11am PT. Please come join us. We are actively seeking feedback from the PGx and genomics community on the interest and development of ClinPGx to facilitate the incorporation of PGx into standard of care. Zoom link below: 

June 16th, 2023, 11am PT/ 2pm ET 

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Registration opens for CPIC-PGRN 2022 meeting in Denver, Colorado

We are excited to announce that registration is open for the 2022 CPIC-PGRN meeting: Diversifying PGx Science to Improve Implementation. The meeting will be held at the University of Colorado on May 10^th, 11^th, and 12^th in Denver, CO. Registration, agenda, and hotel information available at the meeting website. Early bird registration is now open and is $250.00.  The deadline for early bird registration is April 1, 2022. Regular registration will open April 2, 2022 and is $350.00.  The deadline to register is May 1, 2022. 

We are keeping an eye on the COVID status and will abide by the restrictions and guidelines set by the University of Colorado at the time of the meeting. We are planning a COVID “rain date” in case we need to reschedule the meeting. If the meeting is cancelled due to COVID, registration fees will be refunded. No virtual option will be available.

 

The draft agenda can be found on the meeting website. We are still finalizing final titles and speakers and we will post the final agenda once complete.

 

Participants are invited to submit abstracts for the poster sessions.  Please send your abstract to CPIC-PGRN2022@pgrn.org. Acceptance notifications and guidelines will be sent prior to the early registration deadline (April 1^st). 

 

Abstract Submission guidelines:

Final Submission Deadline: March 18th, 2022 

Required Sections:  Authors, Institutions, Background, Methods, Results, Conclusions

1 figure or table may be included

Word limit: 500 words

Please note that submitting an abstract does not register you for this meeting. 

 

Hope to see you there! If you have any questions about registration, please email kelly.caudle@stjude.org. 

 

Best wishes,

Kelly Caudle and Teri Klein (CPIC co-PIs)

CPIC to issue guidance on non-actionable pharmacogenes

The Clinical Pharmacogenetics Implementation Consortium (CPIC) hopes to provide more guidance in the future about gene-drug pairs which have a weak evidence base and are not clinically actionable, despite being heavily marketed to healthcare providers and the public. Many of these gene-drug pairs have already been curated by CPIC staff and assigned a CPIC level of C or D, indicating low or highly conflicting evidence.

The plan was announced at CPIC’s 2019 open meeting in Memphis by Dr. Mary Relling, co-leader of CPIC. It is hoped that this new initiative will improve standardization of pharmacogenomic (PGx) testing, particularly in the face of increased scrutiny from the FDA.

Other CPIC projects announced at the meeting include the development of a CPIC database and API, incorporation of the CPIC guidelines into external resources such as ClinVar and ClinGen and a second phase of the PGx term standardization project which will focus on receptors and other pharmacodynamic genes.

You can find out more about CPIC’s future plans in this GenomeWeb article.

PharmGKB Demo at U-PGx Summer School

PharmGKB recently held a demonstration of the PharmGKB website as part of the U-PGx Summer School in Bonn, Germany. Scientists, clinicians and pharmacists attending the summer school heard from Dr. Rachel Huddart, one of our Scientific Curators, and were introduced to the various types of information found on the PharmGKB website; from Dosing Guidelines to Pathways and Clinical Annotations. Information from PharmGKB formed an important of the participants’ project work later on in the summer school.

The U-PGx summer school group sees PharmGKB in action

 

This was a remote demonstration, with Rachel presenting at the summer school online from our Stanford offices. If you are interested in including a demonstration of the PharmGKB website at your pharmacogenomics event, please get in touch with us at feedback@pharmgkb.org.