Golden Helix symposia concept GoldenHelix Symposia

Golden Helix symposia concept

The symposia series are organized by a non-profit organization, the Golden Helix Institute of Biomedical research. They are named after the house of Francis Crick (“The Golden Helix”; 19/20 Portugal Place, Cambridge, UK) to emphasize their focus on human genomics and personalized medicine. These symposia are organized once on an annual basis with the topic evolving around the fields of genomic and personalized medicine. In particular, these symposia series have the following features:

• Conference topics are selected by an International Advisory Council of distinguished research scientists from academia, government, and industry.
• New and often ground- breaking science is presented at every meeting.
• Conference range in length from 2 to 3 days
• Average attendance is 150 participants, with attendance ranging from 80 to 200 participants coming from various countries worldwide.
• Scientific excellence where important collaboration are formed, careers are enhanced, and new scientific breakthroughs are presented
• Participants are staff scientists, post-doctoral fellows and students from academic working in the field of personalized research, and scientists from pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, government agencies and private and research foundations
• Conference venues are usually prestigious locations in major cities or summer retreats in Southern Mediterranean or Eastern regions.
• Selected mini-reviews from the topics discussed in the symposia are published in special issues of Human Genomics and Proteomics (http://www.sage-hindawi.com/journals/hgp)