ISMD2024 SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM Program for download      mutation label nite

THURSDAY, June 13
09:20 - 09:30Welcome Address
  Harald H. Kessler, President, ISMD2024
Alexander C. Haushofer, Past President, Austrian Society for Laboratory Medicine
and Clinical Chemistry

09:30 - 11:00Molecular diagnostics in Europe - Regulations and Beyond
  Chairs: Alexander C. Haushofer, Harald H. Kessler
09:30Critical implications of the IVDR for continuation of essential tests and for innovation in diagnostics
 Christa Cobbaert, Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands
10:15Ready 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 - 13:00Quality Assurance - Quality Control
  Chairs: Deshratn Asthana, Dietmar Enko
11:30External 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
12:0015+ years of performance evaluation of molecular detection for enteroviruses by QCMD
 Oliver Donoso, QCMD, Glasgow, Scotland
12:30Liquid biopsy in prenatal screening - quality issues
 Christoph Noppen, Viollier AG, Basel, Switzerland

13:00 - 14:30 Lunch Break / Industrial Exhibition / Poster View

14:30 - 16:00Sexually Transmitted Infections, Epstein Barr Virus
  Chairs: Georg Mustafa, Benedicta Nkeh-Chungag
14:30Vascular, 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
15:00STI Diagnostics at a glance - trends and solutions
  Carsten Tiemann, Labor Krone, Bad Salzuflen, Germany
15:30Epstein 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 - 18:00Torque Teno Virus, Hepatitis D Virus, Noroviruses
  Chairs: Alexander R. Rosenkranz, Rudolf E. Stauber
16:30Torque teno virus (TTV) based immunologic monitoring
  Gregor Bond, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
17:00Novel anti-HDV therapies require reliable quantification of HDV RNA: A European multicenter study
  Annemarie Berger, JWG-University Frankfurt, Germany
17:20AltoStar® HDV RT-PCR Kit 1.5 - Verification, Validation and Evaluation
  Philip Rosenstock, altona Diagnostics GmbH, Hamburg, Germany
17:40Intraindividual evolution of noroviral sequences
  Dieter Hoffmann, TU Munich, Germany

18:30 - 20:00 Dinner     20:00 mutation label nite


FRIDAY, June 14
08:30 - 10:00Detection of Viruses & Bacteria
  Chairs: Karl Dichtl, Elisabeth Mustafa
08:30Evaluation of molecular solutions for the efficient diagnosis of microbial pathogens
 Eileen Brandenburger, R-Biopharm AG, Pfungstadt, Germany
09:00Analytical 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
09:30Universal 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 - 12:00Rapid Molecular Diagnostics, Multiplexing
  Chairs: Hans-Joachim Burkardt, Evelyn Stelzl
10:30Exploring the value of high-plex respiratory point-of-care diagnostic testing
 Sophie Vandepitte, bioMerieux, Lyon, France
11:00Impact of rapid molecular diagnostic testing: experience in primary care and geriatric wards
  Pierre Le Roux, Cepheid, Maurens-Scopont, France
11:30Choosing 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 - 15:00Molecular Aging
  Chairs: Markus Herrmann, Brigitte I. Santner
13:30Telomere shortening as marker of biological age - the impact of physical activity and obesity
 Markus Herrmann, Medical University of Graz, Austria
14:00Analytical aspects of telomere length analysis
  Wilfried Renner, Medical University of Graz, Austria
14:30Targeting epigenetic age to prevent skin cancer
  Manuel Rodriguez-Paredes, DKFZ Heidelberg, Germany

15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break / Industrial Exhibition / Poster View

15:30 - 17:00Future Technologies
  Chairs: Oliver Hayden, Brian Salmons
15:30Magnetic sensing for multiple biomarker classes
 Oliver Hayden, TU Munich, Germany
16:00Novel applications of protective encapsulation for living cells: less is more
  Walter Gunzburg, Austrianova, Singapore
16:30Scale-Up of microfluidics chips for IVD applications in a changing regulatory landscape: practical examples
  Christoph Reschreiter, Cube Dx GmbH, 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
Alexander C. Haushofer