welcome 
Graz, 08. November 2023
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
we sadly need to share some tragic news with you. CNAPS 2024 co-host Prof. Michael Speicher has unexpectedly passed away a few weeks ago. His passing is a great loss - first of all for his family - but also for our institute and the entire liquid biopsy and human genetics community.
Despite this tragic event, we are determined to make the CNAPS 2024 meeting a success in his memory and dedicate the meeting to him. To honour his memory we, will award the best selected presentation with the Michael Speicher prize.
Prof. Claus Lindbjerg Andersen, Aarhus University, member of the CNAPS 2024 Scientific Programme committee, has kindly agreed on stepping in as co-chair to help and support the scientific organisation of the meeting.
We are very much looking forward to welcoming you in Graz!
Sincerely,
Ellen Heitzer & Claus Lindbjerg Andersen
On behalf of the scientific programme committee
Graz, 06. June 2023
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
It is our pleasure to invite you to attend the 13th International Symposium on Circulating Nucleic Acids in Plasma and Serum (CNAPS). The meeting will take place next year in the beautiful city of Graz, in the southeast of AUSTRIA, from 04-06 March 2024 and we will assemble an outstanding and diverse group of researchers at the forefront of research on circulating nucleic acids.
The CNAPS meetings take place every two years since 1997, at different locations around the world. Last meetings were hosted by Max Diehn and Steven Quake (Stanford University) in San Francisco (2022), Nitzan Rosenfeld (CRUK Cambridge) and Yuval Dor (Hebrew University Israel) in Jerusalem (2019), and Alain Thierry (Institute of Cancer Research) in Montpellier (2017). This unique series brings together pioneers and leaders of the field with young researchers, students, and biotech industry in a high-profile yet intimate setting.
Profiling of circulating nucleic acids (CNAs) in the blood and other bodily fluids is one of the most interesting, dynamic and promising areas in molecular diagnostics. This field has expanded rapidly in various directions in the last few years. While some areas already reached routine clinical implementations such as non-invasive prenatal testing or various oncology applications, new possibilities for molecular diagnosis in early tumor stages or transplantation medicine are being explored. Recently significant progress in elucidating cell-free DNA (cfDNA) biology and physiology have been made and many biological features of cfDNA are incorporated into sophisticated bioinformatics approaches and machine learning (ML) applications.
CNAPS XIII will address many aspects including (i) new developments in the application transplant and infectious disease diagnostics, (ii) early cancer diagnostics and monitoring of cancer disease, (iii) maternal and fetal diagnostics, (iv) utilization of new approaches in epigenetics, fragmentomics and tissue deconvolution, and (v) discussion of future perspectives and emerging frontiers.
We are very much looking forward to welcoming you in Graz!
Sincerely,
Michael Speicher & Ellen Heitzer
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