ISMD2024 SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
 Program for download | ||
| THURSDAY, June 13 | ||
| 09:20 - 09:30 | Welcome Address | |
| Harald H. Kessler, President, ISMD2024 Alexander C. Haushofer, Past President, Austrian Society for Laboratory Medicine and Clinical Chemistry | ||
| 09:30 - 11:00 | Molecular diagnostics in Europe - Regulations and Beyond | |
| Chairs: Alexander C. Haushofer, Harald H. Kessler | ||
| 09:30 | Critical implications of the IVDR for continuation of essential tests and for innovation in diagnostics | |
| Christa Cobbaert, Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands | ||
| 10:15 | Ready for IVDR - a process-oriented guide for laboratory-developed molecular assays | |
| Anita Stelzhammer, Hospital Wels-Grieskirchen, Wels Austria | ||
| 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break / Industrial Exhibition / Poster View | ||
| 11:30 - 13:00 | Quality Assurance - Quality Control | |
| Chairs: Deshratn Asthana, Dietmar Enko | ||
| 11:30 | External Quality Assessment for SARS-CoV-2 genome detection in Austria: Post-pandemic versus pandemic period results | |
| Christoph Buchta, Austrian Association for Quality Assurance and Standardization of Medical and Diagnostic Tests (ÖQUASTA), Vienna, Austria | ||
| 12:00 | 15+ years of performance evaluation of molecular detection for enteroviruses by QCMD | |
| Oliver Donoso, QCMD, Glasgow, Scotland | ||
| 12:30 | Liquid biopsy in prenatal screening - quality issues | |
| Christoph Noppen, Viollier AG, Basel, Switzerland | ||
| 13:00 - 14:30 Lunch Break / Industrial Exhibition / Poster View | ||
| 14:30 - 16:00 | Sexually Transmitted Infections, Epstein Barr Virus | |
| Chairs: Georg Mustafa, Benedicta Nkeh-Chungag | ||
| 14:30 | Vascular, cardiometabolic and immunovirological changes in people living with HIV: Longitudinal data analysis from the EndoAfrica Study, South Africa | |
| Hans Strijdom, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa | ||
| 15:00 | STI Diagnostics at a glance - trends and solutions | |
| Carsten Tiemann, Labor Krone, Bad Salzuflen, Germany | ||
| 15:20 | The bad genital ulcer, the good clinician and the powerful laboratory | |
| George-Sorin Tiplica, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania | ||
| 16:40 | Epstein Barr Virus, the key for malignancies and multiple sclerosis? | |
| Elisabeth Puchhammer, Medical University of Vienna, Austria | ||
| 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break / Industrial Exhibition / Poster View | ||
| 16:30 - 18:00 | Torque Teno Virus, Hepatitis D Virus, Noroviruses | |
| Chairs: Alexander R. Rosenkranz, Rudolf E. Stauber | ||
| 16:30 | Torque teno virus (TTV) based immunologic monitoring | |
| Gregor Bond, Medical University of Vienna, Austria | ||
| 17:00 | Novel anti-HDV therapies require reliable quantification of HDV RNA: A European multicenter study | |
| Annemarie Berger, JWG-University Frankfurt, Germany | ||
| 17:20 | AltoStar® HDV RT-PCR Kit 1.5 - Verification, Validation and Evaluation | |
| Philip Rosenstock, altona Diagnostics GmbH, Hamburg, Germany | ||
| 17:40 | Intraindividual evolution of noroviral sequences | |
| Dieter Hoffmann, TU Munich, Germany | ||
| 18:30 - 23:30 Dinner & After-Show Party / Chairs: Alexander C. Haushofer, Harald H. Kessler | ||
| FRIDAY, June 14 | ||
| 08:30 - 10:00 | Detection of Viruses & Bacteria | |
| Chairs: Karl Dichtl, Elisabeth Mustafa | ||
| 08:30 | Evaluation of molecular solutions for the efficient diagnosis of microbial pathogens | |
| Eileen Brandenburger, R-Biopharm AG, Pfungstadt, Germany | ||
| 09:00 | Analytical and clinical validation of a lab-developed PCR assay for high-throughput detection of carbapenemase genes for primary patient screening | |
| Marc Lütgehetmann, UKE Hamburg, Germany | ||
| 09:30 | Universal high accuracy bacterial long amplicon 16S-ITS-23S nanopore sequencing at strain resolution for clinical decision-making | |
| Alfred Schoeller, Medgene microbiome, Vienna, Austria | ||
| 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break / Industrial Exhibition / Poster View | ||
| 10:30 - 12:00 | Rapid Molecular Diagnostics, Multiplexing | |
| Chairs: Hans-Joachim Burkardt, Evelyn Stelzl | ||
| 10:30 | Exploring the value of high-plex respiratory point-of-care diagnostic testing | |
| Sophie Vandepitte, bioMerieux, Lyon, France | ||
| 11:00 | Impact of rapid molecular diagnostic testing: experience in primary care and geriatric wards | |
| Pierre Le Roux, Cepheid, Maurens-Scopont, France | ||
| 11:30 | Choosing your own adventure: streamlining diagnosis of respiratory infections with flexible molecular syndromic testing | |
| Daniel Jarem, Roche Molecular Diagnostics, Pleasanton (CA), USA | ||
| 12:00 - 13:30 Lunch Break / Industrial Exhibition / Poster View | ||
| 13:30 - 15:00 | Molecular Aging | |
| Chairs: Markus Herrmann, Brigitte I. Santner | ||
| 13:30 | Telomere shortening as marker of biological age - the impact of physical activity and obesity | |
| Markus Herrmann, Medical University of Graz, Austria | ||
| 14:00 | Analytical aspects of telomere length analysis | |
| Wilfried Renner, Medical University of Graz, Austria | ||
| 14:30 | Targeting epigenetic age to prevent skin cancer | |
| Manuel Rodriguez-Paredes, DKFZ Heidelberg, Germany | ||
| 15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break / Industrial Exhibition / Poster View | ||
| 15:30 - 17:00 | Future Technologies | |
| Chairs: Oliver Hayden, Brian Salmons | ||
| 15:30 | Magnetic sensing for multiple biomarker classes | |
| Oliver Hayden, TU Munich, Germany | ||
| 16:00 | Novel applications of protective encapsulation for living cells: less is more | |
| Walter Gunzburg, Austrianova, Singapore | ||
| 16:30 | Scale-Up of microfluidics chips for IVD applications in a changing regulatory landscape: practical examples | |
| Georg Bauer, STRATEC SE, Anif, Austria | ||
| IMPORTANT NOTE FOR AUSTRIAN PARTICIPANTS / WICHTIGE MITTEILUNG FÜR ÖSTERREICHISCHE TEILNEHMER/INNEN | ||
| Ab 17:00 Uhr Informationsveranstaltung zur Facharztprüfung aus Medizinischer und Chemischer Labordiagnostik für PrüfungskandidatInnen | ||
