International Course on Molecular Epidemiology of Chronic Diseases

General info

Date 

23 Apr 2012 - 27 Apr 2012 

Location

Maastricht, The Netherlands

Website

http://www.M2E2.nl/

Keywords

molecular epidemiology, biomarkers, omics, complex data, bioinformatics, biostatistics, public health

Organiser

Maastricht Molecular Epidemiology Expertise group

Contact(s)

Ilja Arts

Description

The Maastricht Molecular Epidemiology Expertise group (M2E2) offers you a challenging five days course to grasp the essentials of molecular epidemiology: combining information from molecular biomarkers that are more and more often obtained with omics technologies with lifestyle and environmental factors, to understand disease occurrence and prognosis in population-based studies. The challenges faced in this multi-disciplinary endeavour are manifold. This course brings together the different fields of expertise involved in molecular epidemiological research in a comprehensive and integrated manner. Participants will be confronted with issues ranging from study design to statistical analysis, and interpretation of findings in the context of public health. Focus lies especially on methodological issues, with a variety of disease settings used as illustration.