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Ninth Annual HSCI Malkin Retreat

Agenda
(morning)

8:00-9:00: Registration & Continental Breakfast

9:00-9:10: Welcome - Brock Reeve, MPhil, MBA
9:10-9:40: Opening Keynote - Doug Melton, PhD - "Making beta cells for diabetics"
9:40-10:10: Steve Hyman, MD - “For schizophrenia and autism, the genetics revolution has arrived: How do we make it matter for patients?”
10:10-10:40:  Ya-Chieh Hsu, PhD - "A good hair day:  Transit-amplifying cells orchestrate stem cell activity and tissue regeneration"
10:40-10:55: Break
11:00-12:10: Postdoctoral Lightning Round

(afternoon)
12:15-2:30: Lunch & Poster Session

2:30-3:00: Derrick Rossi, PhD - “Reprogramming committed blood cells to induced hematopoietic stem cells with defined factors”
3:00-3:30: Challenges/Opportunities/Resources for Cell Therapy -
Moderator: Les Silberstein, MD
Discussants: George Daley, MD, PhD, Clifford Woolf, MD, PhD and Kevin Eggan, PhD
3:30-4:00: Community Introduction:  Olivier Pourquie, PhD
4:00-4:30: Closing Keynote - David Scadden, MD
4:30-6:00: Poster Session and Special 10th Anniversary Reception

Faculty co-chairs:  
John Rinn, PhD
Harvard University Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology and
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Andrew Brack, PhD
Center for Regenerative Medicine
Massachusetts General Hospital

2014 Susan Swerling Lectures

Speakers:
David Bowtell, PhD
Peter MacCallum Cancer Center – Melbourne, Australia
“Catch Me If You Can: Primary and Acquired Chemotherapy Resistance in Cancer”

Joan Brugge, PhD
Harvard Medical School – Boston, MA
“Matrix Control of Adaptive Responses to Targeted Therapies in Breast and Ovarian Cancer”

Ernst Lengyel, MD, PhD
University of Chicago – Chicago, IL
“Interactions Between Ovarian Cancer Cells...

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Guest lecturer:
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