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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,

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

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 10th, 11th, and 12th in Denver, CO. Registration, agenda, and hotel information available at the meeting website. Early

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

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

NHGRI’s Genomic Medicine X: Pharmacogenomics Meeting

On May 2 and 3, 2017, the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) held its 10th Genomic Medicine meeting, focusing on pharmacogenomics. PharmGKB, PharmCAT and CPIC were presented, as well as a review of the deposition of PharmGKB and CPIC data to ClinVar. We thank Mary Relling from St Jude

Early Registration for Precision Medicine Conference ends Sunday

Early registration for the University of Florida Precision Medicine Conference, held from March 8-10 in Orlando, Florida, ends this Sunday, January 22 at midnight. Earn continuing education credit and learn how to translate pharmacogenomics into practice. The program, which includes speakers, case studies, and participant genotyping, will provide practical information

PharmCAT poster to be presented at ASHG

At the American Society of Human Genetics annual meeting in October, PharmGKB will be presenting the new Pharmacogenomics Clinical Annotation Tool (PharmCAT) with our colleague, Dr. Marylyn Ritchie, who is pictured on the home page of the meeting website (http://www.ashg.org/2016meeting/). We look forward to seeing everyone

Big Data Conference Videos

Videos of the talks at the Stanford Big Data Conference 2014 are now available to watch online (view agenda). A selection of our favorite talks that are currently available to watch: * Michelle Whirl-Carrillo (Associate Director of PharmGKB, Stanford University) discusses the benefits and barriers of implementing pharmacogenetics into a patient&

Big Data Conference 2014

Stanford University are hosting the second Big Data in Biomedicine conference this week, featuring speakers across academia, industry and government. PharmGKB's Associate Director will be discussing Genomic Medicine on Friday 23rd May with other speakers leading in this field. Watch the live stream of the Big Data in