09:00am – 12:00pm Workshop 2012年3月30日

(inclusive of morning break)

Mining and Integration of Next Generation Sequencing Data for Biomarker Discovery in Cancer

Facilitator: Byung Chul Cho
Assistant professor
Yonsei Unversity College of Medicine

Modern high-throughput data collection methods are likely to be highly enabling and transformative to the biomedical sciences. The rapid development of sequencing technologies has increased in throughput by many orders of magnitude in the past generation. Indeed, the entire human genome is now easily sequenced, from both time and cost perspectives, whereas not so long ago it required large consortia or major corporations in many years and millions of dollars to generate the necessary sequence raw material. Within this workshop, Prof Cho will provide you some practical advice about how NGS helps biomarker discovery in cancer research.

Workshop A will address:

• Adding NGS services to its clinical molecular pathology laboratory for applications in cancer biomarker
• Analysing the impact of NGS in biomarker assessment
• NGS-driven biomarker discovery
• Enabling translational research and biomarker discovery through informatics
• Driving biomarker discovery and translational research through NGS technologies

About Your Workshop Leader:

Dr. Byoung Chul Cho is currently an assistant professor at Division of Medical Oncology, Yonsei Cancer Center in Seoul, Korea. He studied medicine and biochemistry at the Yonsei University Colleges of Science and also undertook an exchange to the US for his honors program in biochemistry at the Department of Biochemistry of Oregon State University.

He completed a residency and fellowship at Yonsei Cancer Center, Yonsei University of College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. Professor Cho has spoken at regional conferences and sat on various regional advisory boards. Professor Cho led many clinical trials in the field of lung cancer and HNSCC.