This conference will gather together many of the leading minds in the world of cell networks, systems biology, drug design and personalized medicine with the aim to summarize the most promising network-based therapeutic strategies and suggest how future developments will unfold.

The main goal of the conference is to foster dialogue among basic and clinical scientists working toward the finding of novel way of fighting complex diseases and to encourage multidisciplinary collaborations. Furthermore, the experiences shared from different areas of individual diseases will help improve the global concept of the personalized health care, and identify commonalities, pitfalls, and steps forward..

Invited Speakers

• René Bernards (NKI, Amsterdam, NL)
• Marc Bianciotto (Sanofi-Aventis, FR)
• Tom Blundell (Cambridge University, UK)
• Peer Bork (EMBL, Heidelberg, DE)
• Gerard Drewes (CellZome AG, Heidelberg, DE)
• Anne-Claude Gavin (EMBL, Heidelberg, DE)
• Matthias Gsteiger (ETH, Zurich, SUI)
• Andrew Hopkins (University of Dundee, UK)
• Carlos López-Otín (University of Oviedo, ES)
• Edward Marcotte (UTexas, Austin, US)
• Lucas Pelkemans (ETH, Zurich, SUI)
• Rob Russell (University of Heidelberg, DE)
• Giulio Superti-Furga (CeMM, Vienna, AT)
• Igor Stagljar (University of Toronto, CA)
• Stephen Turner (Pacific Biosciences, Menlo Park, US)
• Alfonso Valencia (CNIO, Madrid, ES)