PROPOSED TOPICS FOR SYMPOSIA

1. The medical laboratory and patient safety
2. Biomarkers of renal function and injury
3. Contemporary issues in thyroid disease
4. Controversies in detection and monitoring of diabetes
5. Testing for drugs of abuse
6. Epigenetics in cancer
7. Future and quality of POCT
8. Emerging issues in sepsis
9. Laboratory assessment of maternal/fetal unit
10. Next generation sequencing in laboratory diagnostics
11. Novel aspects in coagulation testing
12. Laboratory testing in gastroenterology
13. Clinical applications of quantitative mass spectrometry
14. Biomarkers of prostate cancer
15. Micro RNAs: from bench to bedside
16. Laboratory testing in bone and joint disease
17. Laboratory testing in neurodegenerative disease

POSTER SESSIONS

Abstracts of scientific contributions, covering the field of Clinical Chemistry, Clinical Molecular Biology and Laboratory Medicine in broader sense are welcome. These will be selected for Oral Presentation or Poster for display.

EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS (EDUW)

The Congress has planned 39 Educational Workshops that will be organised together with industrial partners. To give higher scientific importance to Educational Workshops, the Congress Organising Committee has settled a timetable that avoids any overlap between Educational Workshops and any
other scientific activity.