Preceptorship Program

Preceptorship Program

EHA Topic in Focus Preceptorship on Precision Hematology

Technologies in precision hematology

14:00 – 14:30 Registration & Welcome coffee

14:30 – 15:00 Introduction and overview of the course: Precision oncology, a concept that puts patients in the center

  • JP Bourquin (Switzerland) & P Staber (Germany)

15:00 – 15:30 Emerging Technologies for Functional Precision Medicine for Response and Outcome Prediction

  • C Heckman (Finland), R Itzykson (France) & J Montero (Spain)

15:30 – 16:00 Genomics, Proteomics, Proteogenomics for Patient Stratification and Response Prediction

  • M Remke (Germany) & B Huntly (United Kingdom)

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 – 18:00 Workshop: Bioinformatics for new omics in precision medicine

  • A Keller (Germany) & S Rahmann (Germany)

Clinical trials in precision hematology

08:30 – 09:00 Welcome coffee

09:00 – 09:30 Overview of Clinical Trials incorporating personalized treatments

  • Introduction – P Rousselot (France)
  • Design and Structure of Precision-Trials – P Staber (Germany)

09:30 – 10:00 European Initiatives to COMBINE Clinical Trials Regulation and In Vitro Diagnostics Regulation

  • E Macintyre (France)

10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 – 11:00 What to consider when getting an investigator-initiated trial (IIT) started

  • V Poeschl (Germany)

11:00 – 13:00 Hands-on workshop: I design my favorite IIT

  • Scholars create their own trial synopsis (in groups)

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 – 15:30 Hands-on workshop: presentations of IIT synopses

  • Scholars create their own trial synopsis (in groups)

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 – 17:30 Lab tour (functional, proteomics, genomics)

  • L Thurner, K Christofyllakis, P Staber, D Piccard, M Remke (Germany) & T Pemovska (Austria)

Integration of precision hematology in clinical practice

08:30 – 09:00 Welcome coffee

09:00 – 09:30 The precision tumor board: a chance to help and learn (includes also registry/database)

  • K Porkka (Finland)

09:30 – 10:30 Interactive workshop: mock tumorboard with real scholar cases

  • Moderators: K Porkka (Finland) & P Staber (Germany)

10:30 – 10:45 Coffee break

10:45 – 13:00 Workshop: (Regulatory and non-regulatory) challenges to the adoption of precision hematology in clinical practice

  • 4 Groups working independently. Presentation & discussion of group results
  • Q&A session: scholars & faculty

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch & Farewell