Are you a Harvard undergraduate or graduate student, postdoc or clinical fellow who is interested in one of the university-wide challenges and… • looking to build a team around an idea? • looking to form a multidisciplinary-team to solve...
Brigham and Women's Hospital Research Day is a way to engage the hospital community, as well as the public, industry professionals, and invited guests, with the innovative and cutting-edge research that happens here every day. It is an opportunity for researchers in all fields and academic levels to share their discoveries and learn from others, while the entire event recognizes the achievement of so many outstanding members of the research community.
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Brigham and Women's Hospital, John Homans Library, Surgery Suite, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA
BWH Multidisciplinary Transplant Ethics Seminar
Guest speaker: Jacob Lavee, MD Director of the Heart Transplantation Unit, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
Dr. Lavee is the Director of the Heart Transplantation Unit and Deputy Director of the Department of Cardiac Surgery at the Sheba Medical Center in Tel Aviv, Israel’s largest medical center, affiliated with the Tel Aviv University Faculty of Medicine. Dr. Lavee established Sheba’s Heart Transplant Unit in 1991, which, under his leadership, developed into...
Harvard Law School Library, Langdell Hall, Casperson Room, 1557 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA
I. Glenn Cohen's new book Patients with Passports: Medical Tourism, Law, and Ethics(Oxford University Press, 2014) is the first comprehensive legal and ethical analysis of medical tourism. Examining both the legal and ethical issues raised by medical tourism and how the two interact...
Harvard Medical School, Cannon Room, Building C, 240 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA
Guest speaker: Robert Bazell Adjunct Professor in the Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Yale University Former Chief Science and Health Correspondent, NBC News
Presented by: The Curriculum Fellows Program of Harvard Medical School
Reception with coffee and dessert to follow.
The CFP initiated this seminar series in graduate science education to enhance the discussion on education reform at HMS. For more information about the CFP, please visit curriculumfellows.hms.harvard.edu.
Harvard University, Sherman-Fairchild 261, 7 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA
Guest presenters: Adam Cohen, PhD Professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Departments of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and of Physics and
Daniel Hochbaum, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow Cohen Lab Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Abstract: We recently developed a technology for probing the electrophysiology of cells using light-alone. A blue light-activated ion channel triggers membrane depolarizations...
Harvard Innovation Lab, Batten Hall, 125 Western Ave., Boston, MA
Registration is required for this free event. Register here
When information includes personally identifiable information, it is necessary to address special regulatory and contractual considerations in a company’s earliest stages. By pursuing data privacy and security “by design,” startup companies can be prepared for the...
Harvard Medical School, New Research Building, Room 350, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA
Presentations by: Charles Xu(Norbert Perrimon Lab) "Regulation of somatic stem cell activity - Drosophila midgut gives a clue"
Jenna Galloway (Assistant Professor at the Center for Regenerative Medicine, MGH and HMS) "Identifying regulators of tendon development and injury repair in the zebrafish"
