Program Schedule

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8:00 Registration/ Breakfast
9:05 ‘The landscape of birth defects’
Mieke van Haelst, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
9:30 ‘Diagnostic tools for birth defects’
Divya Agarwal, New Delhi, India
10:00 ‘Management of birth defects’
Meenakshi Bhat, Bangalore, India
10:30 - 10:50 TEA/ COFFEE
10:50 - 11:45 Inauguration
11:45 - 12:45 The Key Note Lecture: Professor William Newman, Manchester, UK
12:45 - 14:00 Group photograph/ LUNCH
14:00 -14:30 Poster viewing
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14:30 ‘Precision medicine- from concept to reality’
Dhavendra Kumar, London, UK
15:00 ‘Laboratory precision medicine’
Meena Balasubramanian, Sheffield, UK
15:30 ‘Stem Cell therapy in Birth defects ’
Venkatesh Ekbote - Aurangabad, India
16:00- 16:30 TEA/ COFFEE
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16:30 ‘Drug discovery and new drug development’ [Online]
Divya Vohora, New Delhi, India
17:00 ‘Pharmacogenetics and pharmacogenomics’
William Newman, Manchester, UK
17:30 ‘Clinical trials and drug licensing’
A Ramkishan, Hyderabad, India
18:00 CLOSE
19:00 to 22:00 Conference Dinner
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09:00 ‘Recent advances in the treatment of Lysosomal storage diseases’
Jayesh Sheth, Ahmedabad
09:30 Precision management of metabolic encephalopathies
Anil Jalan, Navi Mumbai, India
10:00 Liver transplantation for metabolic disorders - overcoming challenges, enhancing access and improving outcomes [Online]
Anupam Sibal, New Delhi, India
10:30 Identification of novel genes for birth defects in Indian Population
Ashwin Dalal, Hyderabad, India
11:00 - 11:30 TEA/COFFEE
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11:30 Genetics and epigenetic basis of early life birth defects causing future diseases
Giriraj Chandak, Hyderabad, India
12:00 Epigenetics/ Imprinting in malformations
Srimonta Gayen, Bangalore, India
12:30 Vascular malformations in dysmorphic disorders (TGF beta/ Notch signaling pathways diseases) [Online]
Bart Loeys, University Antwerp, Belgium
13:00 Molecular heterogeneity in connective tissue disorders(Collagenopathies) [Online]
Fleur Dijk, Harrow, UK
13:30 - 14:30 LUNCH
14:30 - 15:00 Poster viewing
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15:00 Neoplasia in malformation syndromes
Dhavendra Kumar, London, UK
15:30 Retinoblastoma [Online]
Neerja Gupta, AIIMS, New Delhi
16:00 - 16:30 TEA
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16:30 ‘Emerging therapies in skeletal disorders-towards precision medicine’
Meena Balasubramanian, Sheffield, UK
17:00 ‘Novel therapy in obesity related diseases’
Mieke van Haelst, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
17:30 ‘Next generation therapy for inherited metabolic diseases’
Meenakshi Bhat, Bangalore, India
18:00 CLOSE
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09:30 ‘Congenital heart defects- What’s new’
SJ Patil, Bangalore, India
10:00 ‘New insights in cardiomyopathies’
Ajay Bahl, Chandigarh, India
10:30 ‘New genes and new tools for inherited aortopathies’
William Newman, Manchester, UK
11:00 TEA/ COFFEE
TIME PROGRAM
11:30- 13:00 Open case presentations- 5 minutes followed by 5 minutes discussion/ UK style clinical dysmprphology cases meeting
Panel: Meenakshi Bhat (Bangalore, India); Mieke van Halest (Amsterdam, NL); Meena Balasubramanian (Sheffield, UK); Akila Prashant (Mysuru, India); Deepa Bhat (Mysuru, India)
13:00 Sponsors presentations
13:30 Lunch
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14:00 Novel therapy for spinal muscular atrophy [Online]
Ann Agnes Mathew, Bangalore, India
14:30 New insights for treatment of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Shastara Paneyala, Mysuru, India
15:00 Arthrogryposis Multiplex Congenita: Etiology and Diagnosis
Anju Shukla, Manipal, India
15:30 Valedictory session
Awards- Best case presentation; Best poster presentation Reflections & Feedback from delegates Vote of Thanks
16:00 TEA/ CLOSE