RSU Organises International Forum on New Opportunities in Oncology Treatment – Students and Lecturers are Invited to Participate

From 13 to 14 October, Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) will host a dynamic multidisciplinary event – the Precision Medicine Networking Forum – where more than twenty experts from Scandinavia, Western Europe, and the Baltic States will share their experience on the latest opportunities in the treatment of paediatric and adult oncological diseases.

Precision medicine is a new approach to disease treatment and prevention that takes each individual's genetic diversity, environment, and lifestyle into account. Professor Denis Horgan, Executive Director of the European Alliance for Personalised Medicine and a participant in this Forum, is convinced that 'genomics is driving personalised medicine, which in turn is driving huge changes in the diagnosis and treatment of disease'. Latvia is, however, lagging far behind other European Union (EU) countries in supporting patients, even though it is already implementing a number of important initiatives as an EU Member State. Therefore, collaboration between doctors, scientists, hospital administrators, and public authorities is needed to ensure increasingly effective and scientifically sound treatments and to enable data-driven decision-making.

The topics raised at the forum will be relevant to a wide audience. Oncologists, geneticists, molecular biologists, bioinformaticians, scientists, general practitioners, healthcare support and administrative staff, data scientists, residents, and students, and other interested parties are welcome to register. Representatives of patient organisations are also very welcome.

Among the topics that will be discussed: developments in molecular diagnostics in paediatric and adult oncology; diagnostics, research, and other new options for patients with obscure and rare oncological diseases; the importance of multidisciplinary collaboration; the place of molecular geneticists, bioinformaticians, and pathologists in the treatment team; international collaboration in research, implementation of new treatments, etc. The forum will also include in-depth discussions on the implementation of the biomedical ecosystem, including the economic perspective and the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration.

Further information about programme, participants and topics 

Residents who wish to participate will have their participation counted as a working day, while undergraduate students are invited to arrange their participation with the relevant lecturers of their regular studies.

Sign up by 14 October

Contact information

Līga Hartpenga

Co-ordinator, Communications Department
Project Manager, Communications Department

Rīga Stradiņš University Main Building

16 Dzirciema iela, Rīga, LV-1007

+37126408489

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The forum is organised by: RSU, Latvijas Bērnu onkoloģijas fonds (the Latvian Children's Oncology Foundation), Bērnu slimnīcas fonds (the Children's Hospital Foundation), the Children's Clinical University Hospital, Ministry of Economics of the Republic of Latvia, the Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Centre, the American Chamber of Commerce in Latvia, the University of Latvia, and the Investment and Development Agency of Latvia. The forum is supported by: the Office of the Presidential Advisers, the Latvian Society for Medical Oncology. and the Latvian Association of Oncologist Chemotherapists.