Dear friends!

The organizing Committee invites you to take part in the International Science Congress Genetics XXI which will take place on May 26-28 in Moscow in the Radisson Slavyanskaya hotel.

The congress is one of the most important events of the geneticists professional international community and is timed to coincide with 50 years anniversary of the Federal State Budgetary Institution Medical and Genetic Research Center and 50 years anniversary of the Medical and genetics service of the Russia Federation. It will be conducted with support from the European Society of Human Genetics (ESHG).

Congress mission is continuous professional education for physicians. Implementation of the goals depends on effective collaboration between fundamental science and applied healthcare.

The reports presented by leading Russian and international scientists in the field of medical genetics and human genetics are planned in the Congress. The main Congress participants will be medical geneticists, i.e. specialists in clinical genetics, medical and genetics consulting, population genetics, laboratory genetics, oncogenetics, etc.

Three round tables are scheduled during the Congress: “Population genetics and epidemiology of hereditary diseases”, “Orphan diseases”, “New technologies in diagnostics of hereditary diseases”. Leading specialists in medical genetics and medical scientists from Russian regions, its neighboring countries and beyond will present their reports, contributing to the high standards of the event.

The program of the congress includes plenary talks, lectures, symposia. The agenda covers wide specter of the most relevant scientific and practical issues of medical genetics:

• — diagnosis and treatment of orphan diseases,
• — hereditary metabolic diseases,
• — neuromuscular and neurometabolic diseases,
• — massive parallel sequencing in clinical practice,
• — molecular cytogenetics methods in clinical practice,
• — technologies in diagnostics of reproductive disorders,
• — technologies of prenatal and preimplantation genetic diagnostics,
• — epigenetics and gene function regulation,
• — modern genotherapy technologies,
• — oncogenetics,
• — analysis of cell-free DNA in clinical practice,
• — epidemiology of monogenic diseases,
• — medical and genetic care for CIS population,
• — genetics of multifactorial diseases,
• — study of genetic pools of Russia and Northern Eurasia,
• — population biobanks, genome databases and technologies for their analysis.

The special event dedicated to 50 years anniversary of the Russian medical and genetic service and the Medical and Genetic Research Center will be held on May 25, 2019 in Moscow at the address: Manezh square, 1. During the relatively short period of time (since the 60s of the XX century), the Medical and genetic service has come a long way: from offering standard medical and genetic consulting to prenatal diagnostics, neonatal screening, monitoring of congenital developmental defects and periconceptional prophylaxis. In 1969, Medical Genetics Institute at the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences opened its doors.

Today, the Medical and Genetic Research Center is:

• — Developer of unique methods for effective diagnostics of hereditary diseases with the help of tandem mass spectrometry, massive parallel sequencing, new treatment methods with mi RNA, antisense transcripts, technologies for CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing;
• — European leader in the number of hereditary diseases diagnosed;
• — Leading Russian scientific institution providing healthcare in the field of diagnostics and prevention of hereditary diseases;
• — Leading medical and genetic organization in Russia in the field of genomic and post-genomic technologies;
• — One of the leading Russian organizations in the field of cell and biomedical technologies;
• — Community of leading national specialists in the field of medical genetics;

May 29 to May 31, International education course Variant Effect Prediction Training Course will be held, conducted with support from The Human Variome Project and the Medical and Genetic Research Center, with participation of European, USA, Australian and other specialists. This course combines theoretical and practical classes which will give participants skills to work with computer tools for genome analysis. The course is intended for specialists of DNA laboratories including clinical and diagnostic laboratories working with analysis of DNA sequencing data.

We are positive that Congress results will be embodied in specific scientific projects and implemented in practical healthcare!

New knowledge obtained in the Congress will help practitioners to significantly improve the quality of healthcare provided.

We wish all the participants of the International Science Congress Genetics XXI new business contacts and fruitful work, meaningful dialogue and desire to move towards new achievements in their work and life.

CONGRESS ORGANIZING COMMITTEE