SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME - EMPAG
Saturday, May 25, 2002

Sunday, May 26, 2002 - Monday, May 27, 2002 - Schedule

Time
Room
Session

15.00 -
15.30
Erasme
with ESHG

Opening Ceremony (together with ESHG)
Chair: S. Antonarakis
15.30 -
17.00
Gutenberg
Plenary Session E-PS 1: Psychosocial Impact of Genetic Disease
Chair: G. Evers-Kiebooms and L. Kerzin-Storrar

E-PS01. Living with Marfan syndrome; the European experience.  (20')
S. Vangoidsenhoven;
Medische Genetica, Gent, BELGIUM. 

E-PS02. Living with FAP in the family  (20') 
M. Schmedders;
University of Hamburg FSP BIOGUM, Hamburg, GERMANY. 

E-PS03. The Psychosocial Aspects of Skeletal Dysplasia and the Impact of Molecular Genetic diagnosis-An Exploratory Study  (20') 
S. Alam1, R. Macleod1, D. Donnai1, D. Craufurd1, M. Wright2;
1Academic Unit of Medical Genetics, and Regional Genetic Service, St. Mary’s Hospital, Manchester, UNITED KINGDOM, 2Institute of Human Genetics, International Centre for Life, Newcaste-upon-Tyne, UNITED KINGDOM. 

E-PS04. Living with Achondroplasia in an Average-Sized World  (20') 
S. Gollust1, R. Thompson2, B. B. Biesecker1;
1NHGRI/NIH, Bethesda, MD, 2Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD.
 

17.00 -
17.30
Break
17.30 -
19.00
Erasme
with ESHG
Plenary Session PS 2: Human Genetics in the European Context (together with ESHG)
Chair: S. Aymé and A. Kent

PS04. Role of European Parliament on human genetics
R. Goebbels

PS05. The european orphan drug legislation: impact and issues
Y. Le Cam (Paris)

PS06. BRCA patents
N.N.

Panel discussion
 

19.30 Welcome Reception at the Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain

Sunday, May 26, 2002 - Monday, May 27, 2002 - Schedule