DISCUSSION "The future of the use of genomics in preventive and personalized medicine"
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Tomáš Szemes
The head of the Genomics and Bioinformatics Center of the Comenius University Science Park in Bratislava and the scientific director of the biotechnology company Geneton professionally specializes in DNA sequencing technologies, i.e. DNA reading. Since 2006, the main area of his research has become the so-called free circulating DNA, more specifically circulating fetal DNA in pregnant women and circulating tumor DNA in the blood of oncology patients. He is the co-author of the NIPT clinical test (Non-invasive prenatal test) for the detection of chromosomal and subchromosomal disorders of the fetus, which has been used in clinical practice for 10 years under the commercial name Trisomy test in several EU countries. In the years 2004 - 2…
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Ján Radvánszky
Dr. Radvanszky is a senior scientist studying the field of molecular genetics, specifically human molecular genetics and genomics. Studied molecular biology at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of Comenius the University in Bratislava, where he received academic degrees of all three levels (Bc., MSc., RNDr., PhD.). He earned a qualification of a healthcare professional at the Slovak Medical University in Bratislava, with subsequent acquiring of a specialisation in Laboratory and diagnostic methods in clinical genetics. As part of his pedagogical activity at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of Comenius the University in Bratislava he is lecturing Pharmacogenetics and pharmacogenomics, Developmental genetics and is/was a consultant of several…
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Regína Lohajová Behulová
She is the head of the Department of Medical Genetics of the Oncology Institute of St. Elizabeth and the deputy head of the Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, SZU. She is also a guarantor of the Department of Laboratory Diagnostics in Medical Genetics and vice president of the Slovak Society of Medical Genetics. She serves as a member of the Senate of the Slovak Chamber of Other Healthcare Workers and is the recipient of the Viliam Izakovič medal for her contribution to the diagnosis of hereditary diseases, thus co-founder of DNA diagnostics in Slovakia. She has been working in the field of Medical Genetics since 1996. Pedagogical worker in undergraduate and postgraduate education of students of natural s…
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