Assemblée annuelle SSCC 2015
SGKC Jahresversammlung 2015
Geneva, Sept. 23 - 25, 2015

Conference program

Updated on September 15, 2015


Wednesday 23

1230 Registration
1345 Welcome and Congress opening
1400-1700 Symposium I: Biobanks
 Vincent Mooser, CHUV  Biobanking in Switzerland, future perspectives
 Alexander Leichtle, Inselspital Bern  The role of pre-analytics in biobanking
Plenary lecture : Fay Betsou, IBBL Luxemburg Preanalytics and automated biobanking workflows
Symposium II: Automation
 Denis Hochstrasser, HUG  The BatLab project
 Marco Cantù, EOC Bellinzona  Fully automated Multi-Method LC-MS: application in clinical Laboratory
1715 Welcome reception
1830 Visit BatLab (upon registration)

Thursday 24

0900-1130 Symposium IIIa: Neurological diseases and laboratory
 Jens Kuhle, Basel University Hospitals  The role of biomarkers in Multiple Sclerosis
 Pierre Burkhard, HUG  The role of biomarkers in Parkinson Diseases
 Barbara Plecko, Kinderspital, Zürich  Role of vitamin B6 deficiency in children epilepsy
 Christian Korff, HUG  The role of humoral autoimmunity in children epilepsy
1130-1230 General Assembly SSCC
1230-1400 Lunch and posters
1400-1700 Plenary lecture: Charlotte Teunissen, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam  Biomarkers as the future for AD diagnosis: currents status and perspective
Symposium IIIb: Neurological diseases and laboratory
 Jean-Charles Sanchez, UniGe  Biomarkers of stroke
Oral presentations selected from poster abstracts
 Christian Steuer, Kantonsspital Aarau  Iron disorders: Hepcidin might be the key to differential diagnosis
 Pedro Medina Escobar, UniGe  The Glycation Gap (GG) Value may be used as a Predictive Factor for T2DM Diagnosis: Results of the SENIORLAB Study
 Sabrina Pagano, HUG  Anti-Apolipoprotein A-1 autoantibodies as active modulators of atherothrombosis
1700-1730 SSCC award presentation
1900 Gala dinner, Château de Penthes

Friday 25

0900-1230 Symposium IV: Angiology
 Pierre Fontana, HUG  Monitoring new generation anticoagulants
 Nicolas Vuilleumier, HUG  Biomarker based-risk stratification in non-massive PE ?
Plenary lecture: Christian Mueller, Basel University Hospital  The role of ultrasensitive troponins tests in acute coronary syndromes, update on the ESC 2015 guidelines
Symposium V: Hot Topics
 Belén Ponte, HUG  Laboratory diagnostics of acute kidney injury ?
 Olav Lapaire, Basel University Hospital  From bench to bedside: Angiogenic markers for preeclampsia
1230 Good-bye snack

Final program

Posted on September 15, 2015

Three abstracts have been selected by the Scientific Committee for an oral presentation on Thursday pm. The final program is updated accordingly.
Download the list of posters abstracts.
Download the conference program.
Download the conference booklet (13Mb).

The scientific program and the social events

Posted on June 16, 2015

A detailed program is now available. Please take a note of the special events. Do not forget to register for the Gala dinner and for the visit of BatLab, the laboratory building at the HUG (as part of the congress registration process).