Meetings

Verner De Biasi, Head of Digital Data and Analytics, PTS, GSK R&D, presents at the Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain in Healthcare Forum at the EMBO/Basel Life Conference.

The American Psychological Association's 126th annual convention will take place Aug. 9-12, 2018, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.

Media registration is now open for The Geological Society of America's 130th Annual Meeting & Exposition, to be held November 4-7, 2018 at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.

More than 100 experts will convene to discuss the emerging field of research, which aims to design systems for safer, more efficient operations and to advance the understanding of the relationship between the brain and everyday human tasks.

Insilico Medicine presents at the Advanced Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for Drug Discovery & Development Conference, organized by BIS Group. The presentation will focus on the application of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) for generation of novel small organic molecules with the desired set of pharmacological properties.

The digital transformation will provide our societies and individuals with tremendous opportunities. Yet, at the same time, unprecedented safety, legal, privacy and ethical issues need to be addressed in order to fully benefit from the given chances. Honoring a topic that is presently hotly debated in Japan and also in Germany the first Science Days are devoted to Society 5.0 - Chances and Risks of Digital Transformation and the Responsibility of Universities.

Groundbreaking research will be revealed at this year's ESMO World Congress on Gastrointestinal Cancer (June 20-23, 2018, Barcelona, Spain), celebrating 20 years of clinical progress in a group of diseases that affect both men and women worldwide.

ESMO, the leading European professional organization for medical oncology, has announced that the ESMO 2020 Annual Congress will take place from Sept. 18 to 22, 2020, at the IFEMA - Feria de Madrid, Spain.

The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) will host its 60th Annual Meeting at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, October 18-24, 2018. The meeting will feature updates from clinical trials and cancer research involving radiation therapy.

A major international conference on "Intact Forests in the 21st Century" will take place in Oxford, UK on 18 - 20 June 2018. Many of the world's leading experts in the field--scientists, researchers, policy experts, and conservationists--will showcase the latest findings on intact forests, their benefits, the threats, and the best methods to protect them.

The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) will host its Inaugural AACR International Meeting: Advances in Malignant Lymphoma later this month in Boston. Presented in cooperation with the International Conference on Malignant Lymphoma (ICML), this program will provide a forum for discussion and brainstorming about how recent advances and emerging areas of lymphoma research hold enormous potential for transforming clinical care.

The Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF) has announced that the Structural Heart Disease Summit 2018 will feature three studies which will be presented as Late-Breaking Science on Friday, June 22nd.

How are the Nordic countries dealing with climate change? At the Nordic Conference on Climate Adaptation, top researchers, EU politicians and business sector representatives will discuss why it is important to accelerate the process of climate adaptation. The programme includes what action has been taken by different Nordic capitals, and how citizens can be engaged in adaptation efforts. Everyone who works with or is interested in climate change adaptation is welcome.

A first look at the new European Guidelines for the treatment of high blood pressure was presented at the European Society of Hypertension meeting in Barcelona on June 9, 2018.

An avatar-based application (app) can teach patients to recognise symptoms of heart attack and call emergency, according to a study presented today at EuroHeartCare 2018, the European Society of Cardiology's annual nursing congress.1 Patients using the app were more likely to call an ambulance when they had symptoms, and had fewer hospital admissions.

More than three years of dedicated work within the EU Horizon 2020 project ESMERALDA will culminate with the project's final event -- 11 to 13 June 2018, Brussels, Belgium. At the event, ESMERALDA will present its key outcomes, including: the project's flexible methodology for mapping and assessment of ecosystem services, a useful and user-friendly online guidance resource and the project's open access publications including a textbook and a special issue in One Ecosystem.

Insilico Medicine presents the converging Blockchain and next-generation Artificial Intelligence for biomedical research at the Data Science in Africa Workshop in Nyeri, Kenya.

World's best eye hospitals will gather at Kellogg Eye Center to exchange ideas about delivering quality care to the rapidly growing number of people with eye conditions.

Insilico Medicine presents the advances in AI and Blockchain for Healthcare at the AI in Healthcare Summit in Hong Kong.

Tufts University's Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) will host the bi-annual LEGO® Education Symposium and its Tufts STEM Education Conference from June 5-7 on Tufts' Medford/Somerville campus, part of its longstanding and ongoing efforts to improve engineering education in kindergarten through college classrooms.

A pioneering conference will bring leading professionals from all over the world to Oxford, UK to discuss strategies for tackling poor quality medical products on a global scale.

After the kick-off meeting in Paris on February 2018, the very first network-wide Refractory and Training Course (RTC1) will again gather together the recruited Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) and their supervisors, ATHOR partner organisations representatives and the management team. This one week event will be dedicated to the fracture mechanics of refractory materials and will take place from 11 till 15 June 2018 in the Montanuniversität of Leoben, Austria.

Scientists from the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center (SKCC) at Jefferson Health will be presenting research and leading discussions on various topics, including metastatic uveal melanoma, genetic counseling in men, immunotherapy in early stage lung cancer and solid tumors, quality of life among patients receiving treatment for T cell lymphoma and updates on the Cancer Moonshot during the Biden Cancer Initiative Colloquium at the 2018 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, being held June 1-5 in Chicago.

Insilico Medicine announced the participation and presentations at the CogX 2018 Conference, June 11-12, London, UK.

The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging's 2018 Annual Meeting -- the premier educational, scientific and networking event for the nuclear medicine and molecular imaging community -- will be held at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, PA, June 23-26. It will bring together physicians, technologists, pharmacists and scientists from around the globe to share research, network, and collaborate on 'Imaging the Future of Human Health.'