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September 23 - 25, 2010 | Neural prosthetic devices to replace motor, sensory, and cognitive function lost by disease or trauma hold great therapeutic promise but have been widely used in people. This conference will examine how to use neural prosthetics therapeutically. More
Influenza viruses such as H1N1 continue to pose a major global public health problem, so understanding their pathogenicity and transmission is crucial. This symposium revisited the 2009 outbreak and examined strategies against future outbreaks. More
An exploration of the consequences of abnormal synthesis of steroid hormones in individual target tissues, a process that has assumed an increasing importance in our understanding of malignancies. More
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September 23 - 25, 2010
Keynote Speaker: Apostolos P. Georgopoulos (University of Minnesota Medical School)
Neural prosthetic devices to replace motor, sensory, and cognitive function lost by disease or trauma hold great therapeutic promise but have not been widely used in people. This conference will examine how to use neural prosthetics therapeutically.
Tuesday, September 28, 2010 | 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speakers: Fadi G. Akar (Mount Sinai School of Medicine), Roger J. Hajjar (Mount Sinai School of Medicine), Mariell Jessup (University of Pennsylvania College of Medicine), Walter J. Koch (Thomas Jefferson University), and Evangelia Kranias (University of Cincinnati College of Medicine)
Development of therapies to treat heart failure is hampered by a lack of understanding of underlying mechanisms. This symposium reviews current and potential therapeutic approaches, and research to identify useful molecular targets.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Speakers: Johanna Daily (Albert Einstein College of Medicine), Jayne Raper (New York University School of Medicine) and Honorine Ward (Tufts University School of Medicine)
Backpacking and city living facilitate the spread of parasites through food and water, via pets or through sexual contact. This symposium provides a research update into parasitic diseases, including sleeping sickness, malaria and Cryptosporidium.
Monday, May 24, 2010 | 1:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Organizers: Doris Bucher (New York Medical College), Jennifer Henry (The New York Academy of Sciences)
Influenza viruses such as H1N1 continue to pose a major global public health problem, so understanding their pathogenicity and transmission is crucial. This symposium will revisit the 2009 outbreak and examine strategies against future outbreaks.
May 19 - 21, 2010 | Spain
Keynote Speaker: J. Michael Bishop (The G.W. Hooper Research Foundation, University of California, San Francisco)
This conference will discuss advancements, challenges, and future steps in research leading to an individualized understanding of cancer and its translation into personalized clinical care.
May 14 - 15, 2010
Organizers: Ali K. Abu-Alfa (Yale Medical School) and Shawn Cowper (Yale Medical School)
Join expert scientists and physicians in nephrology, radiology, rheumatology, dermatology and pathology for a CME accredited meeting to discuss this rare disease.
Thursday, January 14, 2010 | 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Speakers: Ned S. Wingreen (Princeton University), Alexander R. A. Anderson (H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute) and John Jeremy Rice (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
This symposium will bring together researchers using systems biology tools to study a wide array of multi-scale processes including bacterial sensing and response to environment, tumor angiogenesis and invasion, and cardiac function.
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eBriefing
Organizers: Doris Bucher (New York Medical College) and Jennifer Henry (The New York Academy of Sciences)
Influenza viruses such as H1N1 continue to pose a major global public health problem, so understanding their pathogenicity and transmission is crucial. This symposium revisited the 2009 outbreak and examined strategies against future outbreaks.
Annals
Edited by Douglas H. Bartlett (Marine Biology Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California)
Pressure influences on biological processes is the focus of this Annals volume.
eBriefing
Organizers: Anthony Atala (Wake Forest University), Stacie Bloom (New York Academy of Sciences), Yilin Cao (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Anita Chong (The University of Chicago), Stefanie Dimmeler (University of Frankfurt), Michael P. Sheetz (Columbia University), Qiming Zhan (Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences), Alex Zhang (Sanofi Aventis), Chunhua Zhao (Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences)
A recent international conference in Beijing focused on exciting developments in fields like stem cell biology, tissue engineering, and xenotransplantation. A new eBriefing documents the event.
eBriefing
Speakers: Jeanne Loring (The Scripps Research Institute), Raju Chaganti (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center), Ihor Lemischka (Mount Sinai School of Medicine)
Researchers are using high-throughput techniques to determine how gene expression and epigenetic states affect pluripotency. As this new eBriefing reports, this profiling has identified some key features of stem cells.
eBriefing
Speakers: John Porco (Boston University), R. Kip Guy (St. Jude Children's Research Hospital), and Daniel A. Erlanson (Carmot Therapeutics, Inc.)
The search for chemicals that will serve as drugs and research tools is unrelenting. Three scientists discuss innovative approaches to meeting this need.
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