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PharmGKB is happy to announce that they were the recipients of the Best Poster award at the International Society for Biocuration conference in Toronto this week!

Russ Altman presented the Year In Review yesterday at the AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics 2014 in San Francisco. Dr. Altman's year in review is meant as an overview for trends and publications for the previous year and to speculate about what opportunities might lie in the year

PharmGKB Scientific Curators Ellen McDonagh and Julia Barbarino are attending the Biocuration 2014 conference in Toronto. On Monday 7th April, in a talk and poster presentation they will outline the PharmGKB curation process: how we curate PGx literature and interpret this for the clinic in the form of our Clinical

The mission of PharmGKB and the role of CPIC's therapeutic guidelines are nicely introduced in Russ's TEDxStanford talk, in which he uses the commonly prescribed drug codeine as an example to explain pharmacogenetics. 4 basic lessons are outlined: 1. People don't respond in the

PharmGKB Developers and Curators attended the Big Data in Biomedicine conference this week, organized by Stanford University and the University of Oxford. The talks and panels raised a plethora of issues surrounding storing, sharing, analyzing, validating, visualizing and utilizing Big Data for improving healthcare and to drive change. Among the

The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Joint Summits on Translational Science is being held in San Francisco this week. Russ Altman is a keynote speaker at the conference, presenting a review of the past year in Translational Bioinformatics on Wednesday 20th March. Check out Michelle Whirl Carrillo's poster

The American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (ASCPT) Annual Meeting is being held this week in Indianapolis. Michelle Whirl-Carrillo, Assistant Director of PharmGKB, will be presenting a talk entitled "PharmGKB: From Pharmacogenomics Knowledge to Clinical Interpretation and Implementation" in the "Putting Pharmacogenetics into Practice" symposium

PharmGKB curators attended the PMWC this week, featuring talks covering different areas and aspects of personalized medicine, including pharmacogenetics, co-drug and diagnostics development, adaptation of clinical trials, systems medicine, wellness, sequencing technologies, and implementation.

Several PharmGKB curators plan to attend UCSF's Institute for Human Genetics 2012 Symposium on Monday 5th Nov, entitled "From Genomics and Informatics to Precision Medicine". Speakers include those from Genentech, Kaiser Permanente and prominent universities in the USA. We hope to see you there!

The PharmGKB curators will be attending the American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting in San Francisco next week and look forward to a week of interesting talks and posters. On Thursday 8th November (2:15-3:15pm) we will be presenting two posters - one focusing on the pharmacogenomic research