1ST NATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR CANCER RESEARCH IN CONJUNCTION WITH 5TH REGIONAL CONFERENCE ON MOLECULAR MEDICINE (RCMM)-MALAYSIA

Scientific Programme

Day 1 – Friday 8th November 2013

0800 -0845 Registration of participants

0845-1000 Opening Ceremony

1000-1030 Tea Break

1030-1100 PLENARY 1 Changing Trends of Non-Communicable Diseases in Malaysia:

Perspective From A Cohort Study

Speaker: Professor Datuk Dr. A Rahman A Jamal (UKM, Malaysia)

Chairperson: Professor Dr. Musalmah Mazlan (Institute of Medical

Molecular Biotechnology, UiTM, Malaysia)

Venue: Taming Sari 1 & 2

1100-1200 Symposium 1

Molecular Epidemiology

Chairperson: Professor Dato’ Dr. Wan Zurinah Wan Ngah (UKM, Malaysia) Venue: Taming Sari 1

i. Beyond BRCA Mutation in Hereditary Breast Cancer Speaker: Professor Dr. Teo Soo Hwang (CARIF, Malaysia)

ii. Molecular and Genomic Approaches in Understanding the Tumorigenesis of Oral Cancer and Their Clinical Significance Speaker: Professor Dr. Rosnah Mohd Zain (UM, Malaysia)

Symposium 2

Bioinformatics

Chairperson: Associate Professor Dr. Roslan Harun (UKM, Malaysia)

Venue: Tun Sri Lanang 1 & 2

i. Dealing with Tumor Heterogeneity and Multi-Dimensional Datasets for Uncovering Patient-Specific Driver Mutations Speaker : Dr. Niranjan Nagarajan (Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore)

ii. Integrating Genomic Data: Towards Identification of Molecular Pathways Speaker: Dr. Zhibo Gao (Beijing Genome Institute, China)

1200 - 1230 Lunch Talk : Advancing Clinical Research with Ion Torrent and Ampliseq™

Technology (Sponsored by Analisa Resources Sdn Bhd)

Speaker : Dr. Michael Richardson

Chairperson: Professor Datuk Dr. A Rahman A Jamal (UKM, Malaysia)

Venue : Taming Sari 1 & 2

1230 - 1500 Lunch (Venue: Warisan Coffee House, Ground Floor) & Friday Prayers

1500 -1600 Symposium 3

GWAS in Cancers Chairperson: Associate Professor Dr. Norfilza Mohd Mokhtar (UKM, Malaysia) Venue: Taming Sari 1

i. GWAS & NGS in Predisposition to Cancer Speaker: Professor Dr. Rodney John Scott (University of Newcastle, Australia)

ii. GWAS in Breast Cancer: Key Lessons Learned Speaker: Professor Dr. Chia Kee Seng (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

1ST NATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR CANCER RESEARCH IN CONJUNCTION WITH 5TH REGIONAL CONFERENCE ON MOLECULAR MEDICINE (RCMM)-MALAYSIA

Symposium 4

Genomics & Lifestyle Diseases (Diabetes, Obesity & Hyperlipidemia)

Chairperson: Professor Datuk Dr. A Rahman A Jamal (UKM, Malaysia)

Venue: Tun Sri Lanang 1 & 2

i. Genes and Obesity Speaker: Professor Dato’ Dr. Wan Zurinah Wan Ngah (UKM, Malaysia)

ii. Artheroprotective Genes: Do They Exist? Speaker: Dr. Roshni R Singaraja (Translational Laboratory in Genetic Medicine, A-Star, Singapore)

1600 - 1630 Tea and Poster Viewing

1630-1715 PLENARY 2

The Global Cancer Crisis: Needs, Challenges and Opportunities for Developing Nations Speaker: Professor Dr. Chia Kee Seng (National University of Singapore,

Singapore)

Chairperson: Professor Datuk Dr. A Rahman A Jamal (UKM, Malaysia)

Venue: Taming Sari 1 & 2

1ST NATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR CANCER RESEARCH IN CONJUNCTION WITH 5TH REGIONAL CONFERENCE ON MOLECULAR MEDICINE (RCMM)-MALAYSIA

Day 2 – Saturday 9th November 2013

0800- 0900

** Young Investigator Award 1 : Molecular Medicine (6 abstracts for oral

presentation)

Chairperson: Dr. Nurul Syakima Ab. Mutalib (UKM, Malaysia)

Venue: Taming Sari 1

** Young Investigator Award 2 : Cancer (6 abstracts for oral presentation)

Chairperson: Dr. Nor Adzimah Johdi (UKM, Malaysia)

Venue: Tun Sri Lanang 1 & 2

Scientific committee pre-select the best 12 abstracts to be presented orally (7 minutes each &

2 minutes for Q & A) & judged.

Cut off for young investigator: below 35 years old and below.

** Please refer to page 14 & 15 for more details.

0900 - 1030 Symposium 5

Personalised Medicine & Pharmacogenomics

Chairperson: Professor Dr. Hany Mohd Ariffin (UM, Malaysia)

Venue: Taming Sari 1

i. Pharmacogenomics and Ethnicity: Implications for the Treatment of Cancer and Other Diseases in Global Populations

Speaker : Dr. Liam R. Brunham (Translational Laboratory in Genetic Medicine, A-

Star, Singapore)

ii. Personalised and Precision Medicine Approach in Childhood Leukaemias Speaker : Professor Dr. Hany Mohd Ariffin (UM, Malaysia)

iii. Mutation Analysis in Gliomas Speaker: Associate Professor Dr. Roslan Harun (UKM, Malaysia)

Symposium 6

State-of-the-art Technologies I

Chairperson: Dr. Zubaidah Zakaria (Institute for Medical Research,

Malaysia)

Venue: Tun Sri Lanang 1 & 2

i. Point of Care Testing: The Future is Here and Arriving Speaker: Dr. Avijit Roy (RVR Asia)

ii. Development of Therapeutic Agents For The Treatment of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Speaker: Dr. Alan Khoo Soo Beng (Institute for Medical Research, Malaysia)

iii. Mining the Human Gastric Fluid Proteome for Cancer Biomarkers: Challenges and Opportunities Speaker: Dr. Mac Ho Meng Fatt (National Cancer Centre, Singapore)

1030 - 1100 Tea Break

1100 - 1200 Poster Viewing & Judging

1200 - 1230

Lunch Symposium : Pathway-informed Multi-Omics Analyses: Metabolomics as an Integral Member of Integrated Biology (sponsored by Agilent Technologies) Speaker : Dr. Thomas Hennessy Chairperson: Professor Datuk Dr. A Rahman A Jamal (UKM, Malaysia) Venue: Taming Sari 1 & 2

1ST NATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR CANCER RESEARCH IN CONJUNCTION WITH 5TH REGIONAL CONFERENCE ON MOLECULAR MEDICINE (RCMM)-MALAYSIA

1230 - 1415 Lunch & Break

Venue: Warisan Coffee House, Ground Floor

1415 - 1500 PLENARY 3

Lifestyle Prevention of Cancer : National Strategies

Speaker: Datuk Dr. Lokman Hakim Sulaiman (Ministry of Health, Malaysia)

Chairperson: Professor Datuk Dr. A Rahman A Jamal (UKM, Malaysia)

Venue: Taming Sari 1 & 2

1500 - 1630 Symposium 7

State-of-the-art Technologies II

Chairperson: Dr. Nor Azian Abdul Murad (UKM, Malaysia)

Venue: Taming Sari 1

i. Next Generation Sequencer (NGS) for Single Cell Sequencing Speaker: Dr. Zhibo Gao (Beijing Genome Institute, China)

ii. Proteomics for Biomarker Discovery Speaker: Dr. Saiful Anuar Karsani (UM, Malaysia)

iii. In Vitro and In Vivo Models for Cancer Research Speaker : Professor Dr. Cheong Sok Ching (CARIF, Malaysia)

Symposium 8

Healthy Ageing & Regenerative Medicine

Chairperson: Associate Professor Dr. Norfilza Mohd Mokhtar (UKM,

Malaysia)

Venue: Tun Sri Lanang 1 & 2

i. Oxidative Stress & Ageing Speaker: Professor Dato’ Dr. Wan Zurinah Wan Ngah (UKM, Malaysia)

ii. Cellular Therapies : Regulatory Issues and Applications Speaker: Professor Dr. Tunku Kamarul Zaman Tunku Zainol Abidin (UM, Malaysia)

iii. Modulators of Neurodegeneration Speaker: Professor Dr. Musalmah Mazlan (Institute of Medical Molecular

Biotechnology,IMMB,UiTM,Malaysia)

1630 - 1700 Tea Break

1700 - 1745 PLENARY 4

Personalised Medicine: Past, Present and Future

Speaker: Professor Dr. Rodney John Scott (University of Newcastle,

Australia)

Chairperson: Professor Datuk Dr. A Rahman A Jamal (UKM, Malaysia)

Venue: Taming Sari 1 & 2

2000 –

2200

Faculty Dinner

Venue: Tai Ping Chinese Restaurant, The Royale Chulan Kuala Lumpur

1ST NATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR CANCER RESEARCH IN CONJUNCTION WITH 5TH REGIONAL CONFERENCE ON MOLECULAR MEDICINE (RCMM)-MALAYSIA

Day 3 – Sunday 10 November 2013

0800 – 0900 Meet the expert session (“Hot Breakfast” Session), limit to 10 participants per expert Venue: Taming Sari 3

0900 – 1000

Symposium 9 Gene Regulation of Cancer

Chairperson: Associate Professor Dr. Roslan Harun (UKM, Malaysia)

Venue: Taming Sari 1

i. Non-coding RNA Speaker: Professor Dr. John Mattick (Garvan Institute, Australia)

ii. Uncovering Metastatic Cancers Through MicroRNA Analysis Speaker: Associate Professor Dr. Norfilza Mohd Mokhtar (UKM, Malaysia)

Symposium 10

Gene-environment Interaction and Molecular Epidemiology

Chairperson: Dr. Neoh Hui-Min (UKM, Malaysia)

Venue: Tun Sri Lanang 1 & 2

i. The Dark Matter in Your Body: How Human Microbiome Could Change the

Practice of Medicine

Speaker: Associate Professor Dr. Chan Kok Gan (UM, Malaysia

ii. Dengue Genome: Implication for Vaccine Development

Speaker: Professor Dr. Sazaly Abu Bakar (UM, Malaysia)

1000 – 1030 Tea break

1030 -1115 PLENARY 5

Economics of Cancer Therapy: Can We Afford To Provide Universal Coverage For Cancer Patients? Speaker: Professor Dato’ Dr. Syed Mohamed Aljunid bin Syed Junid

(United Nations University International Institute For Global Health,

Malaysia)

Chairperson: Professor Datuk Dr. A Rahman A Jamal (UKM, Malaysia) Venue: Taming Sari 1 & 2

1115-1200 PLENARY 6

Central Role of Regulatory RNA in Cancer

Speaker: Professor Dr. John Mattick (Garvan Institute, Australia)

Chairperson: Emeritus Professor Dr. Nor Muhammad Mahadi

(Malaysia Genome Institute, Malaysia)

Venue: Taming Sari 1 & 2

1200 Closing Ceremony & Lunch ( Venue: Warisan Coffee House, Ground Floor )