Event Information:

• Fri

  08

  Jun

  2018

  Scientific Committee Meeting of the 101 Genomes Marfan project (P101GM)

  9:00AM-1:00PM (CET)Brussels, Belgium

  The second meeting of the Scientific Committee of the 101 Genomes Marfan project (P101GM) will take place on June 8, 2018 in Brussels, Belgium.

  The P101GM is the first pilot project of The 101 Genomes Foundation, a private Foundation that was created in November 2017 by Ludivine Verboogen & Romain Alderweireldt (Chair of the VASCERN Ethics WG and ePAG representative for the Association Belge du Syndrome de Marfan) who are parents of a child with Marfan syndrome. Its aim is to improve the lives of people affected by rare diseases by supporting research and development through the creation of a bioinformatics platform containing genomic and phenotypic cross-data from a cohort of 101 patients.