Breaking Boundaries: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Disease Solutions | Tenth Annual HSCI Malkin Retreat

Date: 

Thursday, May 21, 2015, 8:00am to 6:00pm

Location: 

Harvard University, Northwest Lab Building, Room B103, 52 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA

Faculty co-chairs:
Paola Arlotta, PhD and Ya-Chieh Hsu, PhD
Breaking Boundaries logo

The program will include remarks by Doug Melton, PhD, and David Scadden, MD, on HSCI - The Second Decade.

Morning keynote speaker:
Lorenz Studer, MD
"Modeling and Treating Neural Disease using Human Pluripotent Stem Cells"
Lorenz Studer, MD photo
Director, SKI Center for Stem Cell Biology
Member, Developmental Biology Program
Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research

Afternoon keynote speaker:
Aviv Regev, PhD
"Systemic Dissection of Tumor Cell Circuits"

Aviv Regev, PhD photo
Associate Professor of Biology, MIT
Core Member, Broad Institute
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Special presentations by:
David Mooney, PhD
"Biomaterials to Control Cell Trafficking and Activity"
David Mooney, PhD
Robert P. Pinkas Family Professor of Bioengineering
The Mooney Lab:  Laboratory for Cell and Tissue Engineering
Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Founding Core Faculty Member and
Platform Lead, Programmable Nanomaterials
Wyss Institute

Merit Cudkowicz, MD
"Solving ALS:  Lessons from Multiple Disciplines"
Merit Cudkowicz, MD
Chief of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Julieanne Dorn Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School

This event is open to the HSCI research community free of charge, but registration is required.  Please click here to register.

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See also: Annual Retreat