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The 5th International Conference of ESPT (European Society for Pharmacogenomics and Personalized Therapy on pharmacogenomics and personalized medicine.) will take place in Seville, Spain from 16 - 18 October,  CANSEARCH is associated with this event as a sponsor and Prof. Marc Ansari will be speaker.

The CANSEARCH Foundation has become a member of the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), whose goal is to bring together and support the international cancer community. This is to reduce the burden of cancer, promote equality in the management of the disease and ensure that this theme remains a public health priority throughout the world. To learn more about UICC: uicc.org

The CANSEARCH Foundation is pleased to fund Dr. Nicolas Waespe, a hematologist-pediatric oncologist and associate at the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine in Berne, where the Swiss Childhood Cancer Registry is located. The collaboration concerns two projects: the project "BioLink, a contribution to the networking of biobanks for research purposes" to link the Swiss Childhood Cancer Registry in Berne, the BaHOP in Geneva ("Biobank for Hematology and Oncology in Pediatrics ") and the tumor tissue bank based in Zurich, to provide researchers with clinical and genetic data on children who have been diagnosed with cancer or who will be diagnosed in the future. The second project is a study on the long-term toxicity of some children who have been [...]

We are happy to share with you an article (in French only) which appeared in the 1st Philanthropy Network Journal.   […]

CANSEARCH co organised, from 25 - 27 September, a Summer School with the European Society of Pharmacogenomics and Personalized Therapy (ESPT) and the Swiss Personalized Health Network (SPHN) at the Geneva Biotech Campus on Personalized Medicine. More than 30 experts presented the latest developments in this innovative field.   http://www.esptsummerschool.eu