Congress places focus on Personalised Medicine
Tuesday, 25 January 2022
The South African Medical Research Council/ CPUT/Cardiometabolic Health Research Unit will host its 1st Annual International Cardiometabolic Health and Diabetes Africa Congress next month.
The theme of the congress, which will be held virtually from 22 to 25 February, is Personalised Medicine.
The conference will provide a forum to discuss novel and emerging methodologies for preventing and treating cardiovascular diseases, including heart disease, diabetes, metabolic syndrome and complications associated with these diseases, such as kidney and liver disease.
It will also include conversations about discovering novel biomarkers and potential treatment options involving personalised or alternative medicine. Several workshops are planned to bring together policymakers, academics, and emerging researchers to share their views on how we can effectively stop the upward trend leading to the rising prevalence of these conditions.
The congress will feature 39 international speakers and 12 South African speakers.
The unit’s Saarah Davids said staff members, researchers, students and postdoctoral fellows could participate by submitting either an abstract or participating in the youth forum as follows:
Abstracts:
- When submitting an abstract, it could be selected for poster or oral presentation. The programme is designed so that staff, researchers, students, and postdoctoral fellows would present with presenters in themed slots to gain experience and learn from experienced researchers in the same field.
- The criteria, template and other information, can be found at the following link: https://www.cmhcongress.org/main-program-criteria.html
- Closing date 31 January 2022
Youth forum:
- Those who are staff, researchers, postgraduate students, or postdoctoral fellows under the age of 40 who would want to present ideas for future projects. This will allow those presenting to get feedback from other young researchers and possibly aid in future collaboration
- The criteria, template and other information can be found at: https://www.cmhcongress.org/youth-forum-criteria.html
- Closing date 31 January 2022
Prof Thandi Matsha, Dean of the Faculty of Health and Wellness Sciences, is the chair of the congress organising committee.
Written by Ilse Fredericks
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