Clinical Trials calls for papers / meetings & conferences

Call for Papers & Abstracts: PSB'14 Cancer Panomics Session

Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB) 2014

January 3-7, 2014 The Big Island of Hawaii

Session tutorial: January 3, 2014

Computational methods and infrastructure for integrative analysis of cancer high-throughput “omics” data to enable precision oncology

Full paper submission deadline:  July 31, 2013

Session Aims

We aim to explore the computational needs to enable precision oncology through cancer panomics, and to encourage computational biologists in academia and industry to come together to tackle the hard problems to implement such a vision. We seek original contributions that discuss new methods or algorithms/infrastructure able to integrate two or more “omics” and/or clinical data types aimed to enable precision medicine in individual cancer patients (as opposed to pattern finding algorithms for cross-sectional studies). Submission could also formally pose a novel problem in cancer integrative analysis that the community will need to address, but more often will describe algorithms, models, and original solutions to a specific data integration analysis problem in cancer.

Possible submission topics:

Integrative analysis of high-throughput "omics" data from related samples or data types

Pathway disruption analysis by combining data from different "omics" sources in single patients

Joint analysis of "omics" data, literature, clinical trial data, and medical records

Data structures & systems to enable big-data integrative analysis in patients

Call for Abstracts: 3rd International Neural Regeneration Symposium

In conjunction with the 5th International Spinal Cord Injury Treatments and Trials Symposium

October 10th to 15th, 2013 Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China

INRS2013 is an international symposium organized by Chinese Rehabilitation Medical Association and Neural Regeneration Research (Press), aims to promote scientific exchange and collaboration for scientists and clinicians in neural regeneration research field internationally.

Following the tradition of previous meetings, INRS2013 will cover numerous aspects within the area of neural regeneration research, particularly those related to inflammation and neuroprotection, glial scar and neural regeneration, Neural repair and regeneration after spinal cord injury, stem cells and neural regeneration, translational medicine in neural regeneration, as well as alternative medicine and neural regeneration. 

The Program Committee cordially invites you to submit an abstract for a contributed oral or poster presentation for INRS2013.

Authors wishing to contribute papers to INRS2013 must submit an abstract by submission system or conference@nrronline.org.

The deadline for INRS2013 abstract/paper submissions is August 31, 2013.

The official language of the congress is English and all printed materials will be published in English.

INRS 2013 Secretariat
Postal Address: P.O. Box 1234 Shenyang, China
Tel: +86 138 0499 8773; 187 0409 5273
E-mail: conference@nrronline.org
Website: http://www.inrs-nrr.org/

Call for Papers: Global Health 2013, The Second International Conference on Global Health Challenges

November 17 - 22, 2013 - Lisbon, Portugal

Submission deadline (full paper): June 26, 2013

Recent advances in technology and computational science influenced a large spectrum of branches in approaching population health. Despite significant progresses, many challenges exist, including health informatics, cross-country platforms interoperability, system and laws harmonization, protection of health data, practical solutions, accessibility to health services, and many others. Along with technological progress, personalized medicine, ambient assistance and pervasive health complement patient needs. A combination of classical and information-driven approach is developing now, where diagnosis systems, data protection mechanisms, remote assistance and hospital-processes are converging.

GLOBAL HEALTH 2013 takes a global perspective on population health, from national to cross-country approaches, multiplatform technologies, from drug design to medicine accessibility, everything under mobile, ubiquitous, and personalized characteristics of new age population.

We solicit both academic, research, and industrial contributions. We welcome technical papers presenting research and practical results, position papers addressing the pros and cons of specific proposals, such as those being discussed in the standard fora or in industry consortia, survey papers addressing the key problems and solutions on any of the above topics short papers on work in progress, and panel proposals.

Industrial presentations are not subject to the format and content constraints of regular submissions. We expect short and long presentations that express industrial position and status.

Tutorials on specific related topics and panels on challenging areas are encouraged.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.

All topics and submission formats are open to both research and industry contributions.

FUNDAMENTALS

Foundations in global health informatics

Computational health

Software for health

Independent living technologies

ICT and health

Platform interoperability

Semantic interoperability

Diagnosis systems

Applied health informatics

User interfaces and visualization

TECHNOLOGY

Bio-medical semantics

Bio-medicine

Disease biomarker prediction

Applications of bio-nano technology

Body networks

Mobile healthcare

Ubiquitous healthcare

TRENDS

Clinical epigenetic

Long term health conditions

Ambient assisted

Genetics

Virtual reality in medicine surgery

Clinical trials

Computational and knowledge management on proteomics and genomics

Drug design, disease diagnosis and control

PRACTICE

Nursing

Patient-centered care

Personalized medicine

Pervasive health

Homecare

Pharmaceutical services

ALTERNATIVE

Biomedicine

Natural medicine

Preventive medicine

Chronic diseases following

Home surveillance

CHALLENGES

Security aspects and access control on medical data

Data management in pervasive context

Data quality assurance and provenance

Patient flow models in hospitals

Clinical data analysis

Information visualization of medical data

GLOBAL

eHealth initiatives

Social medicine

Health global accessibility

Epidemic spreading and control

Health Education

Providing health in remote areas

Decision support within healthcare

Ethical aspects in eHealth

Healthcare plans and patient benefits

Synchronization of federal regulations

Availability of medication

Community health services

Call for Abstracts: 6th Clinical Trials Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease

November 14-16, 2013 San Diego, California

This online abstract submission is only open until June 3rd, 2013. No late abstracts will be accepted

Our call for abstracts is now open for the 6th edition of Clinical Trials on Alzheimer’s Disease (CtaD) to be held in San Diego, November 14-16, 2013.

After the success of CtaD 2012 with more than 650 participants from all around the world and exciting presentations we are looking forward to making CtaD 2013 scientifically and clinically challenging!

Alzheimer’s disease is one of the most important health challenges facing aging populations worldwide. The development of the next generation of Alzheimer’s disease drugs is becoming essential to face up to this challenge. We learned in Monte Carlo of new pathways identified with biomarkers, facilitating novel trial designs for studies of tau-based therapies and other disease-modifying drugs including immunotherapy.

This year CTAD 2013 has designed its call for abstract and program with one unique submission deadline for symposium, oral communication or poster presentation: June 3rd, 2013.

Call for Late Breaking Clinical Trials and First Report Investigations: TCT 25

October 27-November 1, 2013 San Francisco, California

Submission Deadline: August 20, 2013

Late breaking clinical trials are typically first-time international or US presentations of the primary endpoint or important secondary endpoint results of prospective, randomized clinical trials or presentations of large-scale, impactful single-center or multicenter registries, first-in-man experiences with novel devices or drugs, and important follow-up data from major randomized trials.

A late breaking clinical trial is defined as a major randomized trial or large-scale observational study. A first report investigation is a smaller randomized trial, novel science, or early human investigation.

Accepted late breaking clinical trial and first report investigation submissions will be presented in the Main Arena at TCT 2013, and accepted late breaking clinical trials will also be presented at press conferences scheduled on the same days as the presentations.

Call for Abstracts: European Congress on Head & Neck Oncology 2014

24-26 April 2014 Liverpool, United Kingdom

The Abstract submission deadline is 23:59 GMT Friday 29th November 2013

An emphasis has been placed on addressing the need for a multidisciplinary approach to facilitate cooperation between  the various clinical and research specialties involved in the management of head and neck cancer. ECHNO 2014 will provide you with the latest research and techniques in the ongoing effort to improve the lives of patients everywhere. The Congress’s stellar scientific programmme will feature experts from around the World, who will facilitate stimulating debates about the most controversial topics in Proton Therapy, Robotics and Transoral Laser.

The Scientific Committee is pleased to invite you to submit abstracts for consideration at the ECHNO 2014 Congress. Original abstracts should be submitted on subjects relevant to the following categories:

•Basic Science

•Biomarkers

•Chemotherapy

•Clinical Trials

•Health Economics

•Larynx

•Neck

•Oral Cavity

•Oropharynx

•Qol and Outcomes

•Radio or Chemoradiotherapy

•Reconstruction

•Rehabilitation

•Research

•Salivary

•Thyroid

Abstracts must be submitted via the conference website. Faxed or posted abstracts will NOT be accepted.