Course detail

Welcome to From study design to informatics in clinical precision medicine – a focus on translational biomarkers & digital health

Program: Clinical Science, Laboratory and Translational Medicine

Description:

Omics technologies including genomics, transcriptomics, epigenetics, proteomics and metabolomics are now key technologies in multiple fields of research and a highly active domain in health and medical investigation. Omics is an interdisciplinary research field that coalesces researchers from many different areas of biomedical research into one of the most likely disciplines to successfully foster the translation of basic scientific knowledge into clinical applications for the benefit of patients.

This PhD course will focus on advanced theoretical and practical aspects of Omics strategies in Life & Medical sciences. Our focus will address the clinical study design and ethical protocol requirements to application of omics strategies to address a diverse range of medical pathologies, including but not limited to autoimmune disorders, diseases associated to neuro-inflammation and neurodegeneration as well as chronic pain conditions. Omics are currently utilized extensively to identify biomarker patterns for detection of disease risk, patient’s stratification, identification of responders to a particular treatment, or elucidation of mechanism of disease or drug action with ultimate goal of patient safety and better health outcome.

The course will be a combination of introductorily lectures, bioinformatics tutorials and laboratory demonstrations with hands-on experimental parts. Considering the value and importance of omics, and a rapidly growing trend, this course aims at providing front edge information about current advanced methodologies applied in medical omics through real-life examples. Hence, participants will be able to translate the presented strategies and methods into their own health science, and medical related research.

Lectures & Practical

• Clinical study design and ethical aspects for Omics type projects
• Sample handling from patients (biobank), animal models, or in-vitro systems to the mass spectrometer and beyond
• Theoretical and strategic introduction to Omics technologies in scope of clinical research.
• Strategies for clinical proteomics, genomics and metabolomics for personalized medicine in several fields including autoimmune disorders, neurodegenerative diseases and chronic pain.
• Applications for quantitative proteomics and metabolomics in health and medical science.
• Statistical evaluation and presentations of Omics data in scientific publications
• Bioinformatics processing and data integration of Omics data
• Practical session – From biofluid to quantitative proteomics analysis.

Literature:

Notes, literature and exercise instruction will be distributed at the course

Prerequisites:

None, Background in clinical, translational or biomedical sciences is recommended.

Evaluation:

Active participation in the theoretical and experimental course

Organizer: Associate professor Allan Stensballe, Professor Christina Brock

Lecturers: Associate Professor Allan Stensballe, invited lecturers.

ECTS: 2,25

Date: 20, 21, 22, April 2026

Time: 8.30 – 15.30

Place: Aalborg University, Selma Lagerløftvej 249, 9260 Gistrup

Number of seats: 18

Deadline: 30 March 2026

Important information concerning PhD courses:

There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course. We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.

To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.

For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration atphdcourses@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.