International Society for Gastrointestinal Hereditary Tumours InSiGHT - Satellite Meeting 10th May
The International Society for Gastrointestinal Hereditary Tumours (InSiGHT) is the peak organization representing health professionals committed to the care of individuals and their families with inheritable gastrointestinal cancers. It was formed in 2003 with the merge of the International Collaborative Group for Hereditary Non Polyposis Colorectal Cancer, and the Leeds Castle Polyposis Group. InSiGHT meets bi-ennially with its next meeting in San Antonio in Texas in April 2011.
In 2010, InSiGHT will have a special meeting with the Human Variome Planning Committee in the UNESCO Building in Paris on May 10th. The meeting will build on the initiatives founded at the 2009 meeting in Dusseldorf between InSiGHT, the HVP and the National Institutes of Health Colon Family Register.
The draft PROGRAMME may be downloaded here PDF
Topics will include:
- InSiGHT MMR locus specific database, governance, curation, submission progress (including from UK's DMuDB) and interpretation committee activities
- The final phenotype descriptors
- Focus on unclassified variant submission
- Functional assays and the recent questionnaire circular on assay availability and missense variants definitely defined for pathogenicity
- Virtual Histology databasing
- The APC and MYH databases
- National HVP Node demonstrations, including MMR databases
- Automated literature text searching to populate the InSiGHT database with published MMR information
- Interconnectivity of disparate databases serving a pipeline to the InSiGHT databases
- Cost benefit analyses of the InSiGHT and other HVP LSDBs
- Funding for LSDBs
- Indemnity management
There will time assigned to meetings of the committees supporting all these activities.
This is a major opportunity for those interested in following the progress of this lead HVP LSDB as it matures through international collaboration towards a site of prime importance in the field. It already attracts 20,000 hits per month.
Early expressions of interest are invited through the application process on the HVP website. Note, places are limited in the UNESCO building, and a fee of Euro 30 will be charged to cover hospitality costs which are morning and afternoon coffee breaks and lunch in the UNESCO cafeteria. This meeting has been sponsored by InSiGHT.
If you wish to attend this meeting, please register at the time of registering for the HVP meeting as numbers are limited due to space constraints. If you are not attending the HVP meeting you can still attend but you will need to REGISTER WITH THE SECRETARIAT AS THE ONLINE SYSTEM DOES NOT ALLOW IT WITHOUT HVP REGISTRATION. Please fill out the Special Satellite Registration Form linked here ONLY IF YOU ARE NOT ATTENDING THE HVP IN WHICH CASE YOU CAN BOOK THIS ONLINE