Simposio
Program
Opening Ceremony
9:30

Francisco Javier Castellon-Fonseca, PhD, Senator
President
Committee on Science and Technology
Senate

9:40
Gerardo Jimenez-Sanchez, PhD
Director General
National Institute of Genomic Medicine
9:50
Ector Jaime Ramirez-Barba, PhD, Deputy
President
Health Committee
Chamber of Deputies
10:00
Silvia Luna Rodriguez, Deputy
President
Commission on Science and Technology
Chamber of Deputies
10:10
Jose Angel Cordova-Villalobos
Ministry of Health
10:20
Ernesto Saro Boardman, PhD, Senator
President
Committee on Health
Senate
Session 1.
The development of the National Institute of Genomic Medicine
Chairman: Francisco Bolivar, PhD
_________Biotechnology Institute
_________National Autonomous University of Mexico
10:30

The development of genomic medicine in Mexico
Guillermo Soberon, PhD
President
National Bioethics Commission

10:50
Collaboration of FUNSALUD in the creation of INMEGEN
Manuel Ruiz de Chavez, PhD
CEO
Mexican Health Foundation
President
National Academy of Medicine
11:10
Towards the development of INMEGEN
Juan Pedro Laclette, PhD
General Coordinator
Scientific and Technological Consultative Forum
11:30
Advances and challenges of INMEGEN 2004-2009
Dr. Gerardo Jimenez-Sanchez
Director General
National Institute of Genomic Medicine
12:10
INMEGEN in the international context
Beatrice Seguin and Abdallah S. Daar, PhD
McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health
University of Toronto
12:40
Break
Session 2.
Ethics challenges of the genomic medicine
Chairman: Guillermo Soberon, PhD
_________President
_________National Bioethics Commission
_________Ministry of Health
13:00
The human genome and its ethics, legal and social challenges
Cesar Lara Alvarez, MSc
Coordinator
Ethics, Legal and Social Studies Center
National Institute of Genomic Medicine
13:30
Comparative Law of the human genome in Latin America
Diego Valades, PhD
Senior Investigator
Institute of Legal Reseach
National Autonomous University of Mexico
14:00

Human rights and the human genome
Gonzalo Moctezuma-Barragan, MSc
Executive Secretary
Plenary Council of the Federal Judiciary

14:30
Internacional declarations on the human genome
Ingrid Brena-Sesma, PhD
Senior Investigator
Institute of Legal Reseach
National Autonomous University of Mexico
15:00
Break - Lunch
Session 3.
Opportunity to legislate on genomic medicine
Chairman: Diego Valades, PhD
_________Institute of Legal Research
_________National Autonomous University of Mexico
16:30
The genomic research and biobanks
Alberto Arellano-Mendez, BL

Investigator
National Institute of Genomic Medicine
17:00
The discrimination and access to genomic information
Ernesto Schwartz-Marin, MSc
Egenis-ESRC Center for Society and Genomics
University of Exeter
United Kingdom
17:30

Legal tools to support the legislation of the human genome
Rosario Isasi, PhD
Investigator
Center for Public Law
University of Montreal
Canada

Conclusions

18:00


Francisco Javier Castellon-Fonseca, PhD, Senator

President
Committee on Science and Technology
Senate

Gerardo Jimenez-Sanchez
Director General
National Institute of Genomic Medicine