November 8 – 11, 2022 | CCCB Sala Teatre & Online
The 2022 BIST Conference will bring together the BIST Community and its many stakeholders and partners, both local and international, to discuss the latest advances and developments in a key research area for BIST: precision medicine. The conference main day will take place on November 10th in Barcelona with keynote talks, round-table discussions, selected flash talks and posters. Online satellite sessions will be held from the 8th to the 11th November.
Overview
Precision medicine has become an urgent area of study within human health, with significant research efforts ramping up globally since the human genome was first sequenced in the early 2000s. A patient-centred and comprehensive approach to healthcare, precision medicine incorporates an individual’s genetics, environment, and lifestyle into targeted disease prevention and treatment plans, with the goal of maximising quality of life and of healthcare.
The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST) and the BIST centres drive research in precision medicine through in-depth studies of life-altering disease using a variety of approaches and techniques such as genomics, bioinformatics, nanotechnology, bioengineering, and photonics. The need for such joint efforts has become increasingly transparent amid the current global health crisis, and BIST aims to foster multidisciplinary research to address these challenges.
The 2022 BIST Conference will bring together the BIST Community and its many stakeholders and partners, both local and international, to discuss the latest advances and developments in precision medicine within the BIST centres and beyond. Presentations and discussions will cover a broad range of topics including devices, genetics and genomics, high-throughput technologies, modelling (e.g.: stem cells, organoids, systems biology), non-invasive monitoring and imaging, precision therapies (e.g.: CAR-T), and testing and biomarkers.
Three Satellite online sessions will take place to complement the conference. A first satellite on Arts and Science will open the Conference on Tuesday November 8. On Wednesday November 9, a satellite on Diversity in Science will take place. Finally, on November 11, which marks the first day on the Setmana de la Ciència, a satellite event entitled Es poden fer medicaments a mida? Què és la Medicina de Precisió? addressed to secondary and high-school students will take place.
Programme
Thursday, 10 November 2022 (Conference Main Day). CCCB, Barcelona
| 10:00 | Conference Opening
Joan Guinovart, IRB Barcelona Emeritus Professor, BIST Dolors Aleu Graduate Centre Academic Director Eduard Vallory, BIST Director General Núria Bayó, BIST Director of Programmes |
| 10:15
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“la Caixa” Foundation – BIST Chemical Biology Programme presentation
Real-time metabolic analysis of 3D cell culture models: Organs-on-a-chip & NMR Irene Marco Rius, IBEC Junior Group Leader. |
| 10:45 | Keynote lecture
Enabling pan-cancer precision medicine Geoff Macintyre, Spanish National Cancer Research Center (CNIO) |
| 11:45 | Poster session and coffee |
| 12:15
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Selected flash talks – Modeling, Genetics and Genomics, and Precision Therapies
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| 13:20 | Lunch and poster session |
| 14:45
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Selected flash talks – Non-invasive monitoring and imaging, Devices, High Throughput
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| 16:00 | Coffee break and posters |
| 16:20 | A new course to bring new developments on precision medicine to health professionals
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| 16:30
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Conversation: How to put precision medicine discoveries to work?
Moderated by Cayetano González, ICREA Research Professor. Cell Division Laboratory Group Leader, IRB Barcelona. |
| 17:40 | Flash talk and poster awards |
| 17:50 | Closing remarks
Gabby Silberman, BIST Director General (2017- Oct. 2022) Joan Guinovart, IRB Barcelona Emeritus Professor, BIST Dolors Aleu Graduate Centre Academic Director |
| 18:00 | END |
Download the book of abstracts
Satellite events – Online
BIST Conference Committees
BIST Conference Scientific Committee: Jorge Ferrer from CRG; Núria Montserrat and Irene Marco Rius from IBEC; Turgut Durduran from ICFO; José A. Garrido and Víctor Puntes from ICN2; and Patrick Aloy and Cayetano Gonzalez from IRB Barcelona.
BIST Conference Organizing Committee: Gloria Lligadas from CRG; Anke Kleff from IBEC; Lydia Sanmartí from ICFO; Mónica H. Pérez-Temprano from ICIQ; Àlex Argemí from ICN2; and Zoila Babot, Marta Llorens and Gabby Silberman from BIST.
The 2022 BIST Conference has counted with the support of the Barcelona City Council – joint culture and Science Capital
Speakers
Geoff Macintyre
Group Leader, Spanish National Cancer Research Center (CNIO)
Irene Marco-Rius
Junior Group Leader, IBEC
Emma Blasi
Associate Director, Global Regulatory Affairs-Development Strategy at Alexion
Julio Delgado
Haematologist at Hospital Clínic and chair of the UB-Celgene Unit for Cell Immunotherapy
Roger Gomis
Group Leader, IRB Barcelona
Salvador Macip
Group Leader, University of Leicester. Lecturer at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
