Glasgow Molecular Pathology Node

Susanna Cooke and Naomi Rankin from the Glasgow Molecular Pathology Node presented at the "Informatics for Stratified Medicine and Biomarker Discovery: A Molecular Pathology Informatics Network Symposium" in Manchester on the 8th of March 2018.

This successful symposium was organised by Nophar Giefman from the Division of Informatics, Imaging & Data Sciences at the University of Manchester. There were 12 presenters in total, 8 with affiliation to one of the six UK Nodes and 64 registered attendees. Professor Anthony Whetton, Director of the Stoller Biomarker Discovery Centre at the University of Manchester started off the symposium with an excellent keynote speech on the role of Proteomics in Precision Medicine. In it he highlighted the difficulty in translating novel biomarkers from the research environment to the clinical environment, a sentiment echoed by Naomi in her presentation on the use of NMR metabolomics in biomarker discovery.

There were also some fascinating presentations on breath-omics and text-mining support for biomarker discovery; the use of longitudinal data in stratified medicine and image analysis in digital histopathology. Professor Niels Peek, Director of the Greater Manchester Connected Healthy City, kicked off the afternoon with his captivating keynote speech on Learning Health Systems where he demonstrated the potential of using routine data to improve health systems. Susie rounded off the symposium with her exemplary talk on the importance of measuring the "clinically actionable genome" and improving entry into clinical trials for patients with pancreatic cancer, part of the Precision Panc project supported by the Glasgow Molecular Pathology Node.

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First published: 25 April 2018