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HIGHLIGHTS
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CAPABILITY
has continued its networking activities in 2012 with the
GenTEE project
The 4th GenTEE meeting
took place in Muscat, Oman from March 10th to 12th, 2012.
Location: Crowne Plaza, Muscat
Presentations
Programme
Links:
6th International Conference on Birth Defects an
Disabilites in the Developing world
15th Biennial
Congress of the SASoHG
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GenTEE
will be presented at 6th International Conference on
Birth Defects and Disabilities in the Developing World,
November 10 - 13, Shangri-La mactan, Cebu, Phillipines
Programme: ICBD2013
The GenTEE project was presented at the 15th Biennial
Congress of the South African Society of Human Genetics,
October 6 - 9, Johannesburg
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The
3rd GenTEE meeting took place in Beijing, October 28th to
31st, 2011 and was organized in cooperation with Prof.
Nanbert Zhong, Center of Medical Genetics, Peking
University Health Science Center, Beijing, P. R. China
Presentations
The 2nd GenTEE meeting
took place at the Institute for Health and Consumer
Protection (IHCP) in Ispra from March 23rd to 25th, 2011
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GenTEE (Genetic Testing in
Emerging Economies)
Background
The
emerging economies of China, East Asia, India, Latin
America, the Middle East and South Africa all have
started to put resources into the development of
national biomedical genetic research infrastructures and
are developing policies on how to translate
genetic/genomic knowledge into their (public) health
care systems. Due to thje epidemiological transition
these countries are facing
- an increasing portion of
morbidity and mortality due to congenital and genetic
conditions
- a
rising need for genetic services and the development of
quality standards for the provision of genetic testing
services. Like in high-income countries, albeit often
with fewer available resources, these countries need to
develop the necessary infrastructure, tools, resources,
guidelines and procedures leading to the establishment
of quality genetic services and competence in genetic
testing
GenTEE is an international network that
closely links leading academic institutions from
Argentinia, Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Oman,
Philippines and South Africa with European efforts
funded by the European FP7 programme to develop,
harmonize, validate and standardize genetic testing
services in the 27 EU Member States (EuroGentest2: http://www.eurogentest.org/
)The GenTEE network - a successor of the CAPABILITY
network - is supported by the European Commission's
Research Centre "Institute for Health and Consumer
Protection" (IHCP: http://ihcp.jrc.ec.europa.eu)
The main objectives of GenTEE
are:
- to document and compare current
practices and the state of genetics service provision in
the participating countires
- to fill current knowledge gaps
- to
promote an internationally shared set of basic quality
standards for genetic testing and the provision of
appropriate genetic services that will facilitate future
joint research and the exchange and transfer of
knowledge and technology
To
date, GenTEE has completed a pilot survey that maps the
current state of genetic services in the participating
countries. The outcome will be presented at an
international workshop in Beijing, P. R. China, from
October 28th - 31st, 2011.
(GenTEE will be funded until
2013)
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Available now:
Programme
of the GenTEE Meeting held at Ispra, Italy from August
30th to September 2nd, 2010
click
here
The CAPABILITY Report "Model Approaches for Capacity
Building for the Translation of Genetic Knowledge into
Practice and Prevention"
click here
Presentations
from
the CAPABILITY workshop III held in Trolleholm, November
30th to December 3rd, 2009
available now
click
here
The
CAPABILITY Presentation held at the 4th International
Conference on Birth Defects and Disabilities in the
Developing World, October 4th to 7th, 2009 , New Delhi,
India
click here
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CAPABILITY
CAPABILITY
is a 3-year model project
developed jointly by units 3 (Clinical Genetics,
Community Genetics and Public Health) and 6 (Education)
of the Network of Excellence: Genetic Testing in Europe
Network for test development, harmonization, validation
and standardization of services (EuroGentest) and by
leading experts from: Argentina, Egypt and South Africa,
the latter being currently engaged in major development
projects to integrate genetic services in primary care
and prevention in their countries.
CAPABILITY
will:
- develop an analytic framework
for evidence-based genetic test evaluation including
the domains: efficacy (evidence of utility in
controlled settings) and effectiveness (evidence of
utility in real settings), identify priorities for
capacity building by a systematic needs assessment
survey and
- validate the project's
approach by means of a demonstration project.
CAPABILITY's
overall objectives are to contribute to the efforts to
establish and sustain a worldwide harmonisation process
for quality standards for the integration of genetic
test/genomic knowledge applications into practice and
prevention and to serve as a model project for
successful, sustainable collaboration between EU
research centres and centres from developing countries.
The following
challenges are common to both EU and middle income
countries:
- The need to develop an
evidence-based evaluation process for genetic tests or
other applications of genomic knowledge in transition
from research into practice.
- The need for capacity building
to enable health care systems to integrate adequately
genetic/genomic applications with proven clinical
utility into practice and prevention.
- The need to establish an
evidence-based implementation process for
genetic/genomic knowledge from research into routine
practice, including the review of testing practices,
to ensure quality standards of services
CAPABILITY is
a first step to address these challenges.
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2007 Legal Notice - EC Contract no.: FP6-037275
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