Functional Genomics of Critical Illness and Injury November 13-14, 2006

Functional Genomics of Critical Illness and Injury November 13-14, 2006
Bethesda, MD
Investigators using genomic and proteomic approaches to study critical illness face major challenges unique to these methods that push the envelope in regards to resources, experimental designs, and data analysis. Investigations in critically ill or injured patients have special requirements related to safety, vulnerability, and privacy, while genomic research itself raises additional ethical considerations. Importantly, this venue is solely focused on the ethical, safe, and scientifically rigorous application of genomic technology to study critical illness and injury. The objectives of these yearly Symposia are three-fold: education, consensus, and collaboration. The first two Symposia provided an educational forum for those interested in new high-throughput technologies, systems biology, computational biology, and bioinformatics. The third Symposium reached consensus on research priorities for applying high-dimensional biotechnologies to the study of critically ill and injured patients. This year?s theme is ?Surviving Stress: Organ Systems to Molecules.? Our scientific sessions are dedicated to a range of topics including a systems approach to the biology of stress, an update on pharmacogenomics, and a session that reviews recent progress across a number of multidisciplinary research networks.
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