SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME, Athens 2022
Residents’ Day
- Image analysis (including a hands-on session on image analysis)
- Research methodology industry/lab animal examples with scenarios, studies, and techniques to consider when preparing a study)
Main conference topics
- Genetic Diseases
- Keynote lecturer: Tosso Leeb Professor and Director Institute of Genetics, University of Bern, Switzerland “Whole Genome Sequencing as a Precision Medicine Approach in Diagnostics”
- Veterinary pathologists in human- and animal-directed biomedical research: What is the role of academia?
Keynote lecturer: Amanda Beck Scientific Director, Histology and Comparative Pathology Facility, Albert Einstein Cancer Center, New York
“Considerations when modeling human diseases” - Animal cancer data in cancer surveillance and comparative onco-epidemiology
Keynote lecturer: Chiara Palmieri Professor in Veterinary Pathology, School of Veterinary Science, The University of Queensland, Gatton, Queensland
“Cancer registration in companion animals: towards a global approach” - Update on non-human primate models in research and development
Keynote lecturer: Anne Lewis Professor, Oregon National Primate Research Center
“Non human primate models of genetic diseases in humans” - COVID-19 animal models, current use and lessons learnt
- Forensic Matters
- Livestock pathology: What’s new? What’s important?
- New technologies, new methodological approaches
Workshops
- Review of grading and the impact of grading and other histological variables on therapeutical decisions of the oncologist
- Forensic Veterinary Pathology training session