Dubai to host first PM exhibition

Dubai will this month host the Middle East’s first dedicated exhibition and summit devoted to the digital technology driven precision medicine (PM) field with over 70 international experts, thought leaders and medical pioneers from Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and the USA.

The newly launched Precision Medicine Exhibition & Summit, held under the patronage of Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak al Nahyan, Cabinet Member and Minister of State for Tolerance of UAE & President of UAE Genetic Diseases Association, will run at the Conrad Hotel from May 24 to 25. As healthcare professionals gather to learn the latest PM techniques and innovations, aspiring health tech startups will be pitching for funding to a panel of investors at the co-located Emerge GHI breakthrough event, a press release said.

The new event launches come as global data and insights firm Netscribes projects the Middle East and Africa precision medicine market to expand at a compound annual growth rate of 9.96% to a revenue worth of US$2.51bn by 2023.

"We are pleased to organise this unique exhibition and summit underlining the need and importance of precision medicine in the UAE," said Dr Maryam Matar, founder and chairperson, UAE Genetic Diseases Association.

“The integration of precision medicine into general healthcare settings gives patients with genetic disorders a lot of optimism. Personalised medicine is certainly transforming the healthcare ecosystem for the better, driven by digitalisation and a rapidly rising corpus of knowledge that is redefining how we perceive the very nature of the origins and development of fatal diseases. Precision medicine will help us better understand the role of genetics, provide tailormade health management solution for each individual and reduce the burden of not only genetic disorders but other rare diseases in long-run.”