Harvard Law School, Griswold Hall, Room 110, 1525 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Program of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics
Guest speaker: Neil Flanzraich
Please join us for a lecture by Neil Flanzraich, Chairman and CEO of Cantex Pharmaceuticals, Inc., discussing the balance between speed and safety in FDA’s regulation of pharmaceutical products. Topics will include how FDA’s approach has ebbed and flowed over time, the various tools FDA has introduced to reach this balance, and the potential impact of FDA’s various approaches on products and companies, especially...
Harvard Medical School, New Research Building, Room 350, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA
Guest presenters: Olivier Pourquie, PhD Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School Professor of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital "Integrating signaling with metabolism during embryo patterning"
and
Tyler Huycke (Lab of Dr. Clifford Tabin) "Generating morphological variation in the developing gut"
Broad Institute, Auditorium, 415 Main Street, Cambridge, MA
Life sciences innovation is moving fast these days, and perhaps nowhere is this more evident than in Boston. Local companies, researchers, and entrepreneurs are pursuing some of the boldest ideas in the field—T-cell therapy, gene therapy, RNA interference, and microbiome analysis, among others. What's more, they're seeing real results, in human trials, that indicate these approaches might soon change the way a number of diseases are treated. But a whole host of hurdles still have to be cleared. How can we avoid the pitfalls of the past, and turn these innovative visions into a reality?...
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Jimmy Fund Auditorium, 35 Binney Street, Boston, MA
Guest speaker: Warren Pear, MD, PhD Gaylord P. and Mary Louise Harnwell Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine
MGH Center for Regenerative Medicine (CRM) presents:
"Modeling narcolepsy and obesity with human stem cells”
Florian Merkle, PhD Harvard University Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellow Advisors: Profs. Kevin Eggan, Alex Schier
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Bornstein Family Amphitheater, 45 Francis Street, Boston, MA
Paula A. Johnson, MD, MPH Executive Director, Mary Horrigan Connors Center for Women’s Health and Gender Biology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
cordially invites you to a medical Grand Rounds featuring
Doris Taylor, PhD, FACC, FAHA Director, Regenerative Medicine Research Director, Center for Cell and Organ Biotechnology Texas Heart Institute
for the Estrellita and Yousuf Karsh Visiting Professorship in Women's Health
Boston Children's Hospital, Folkman Auditorium, Enders Research Bldg., 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA
Fyler Lecture at Medical Grand Rounds | Department of Medicine
Guest speaker: Richard P. Lifton, MD, PhD Chair, Department of Genetics Sterling Professor of Genetics and Internal Medicine Howard Hughes Medical Institute Yale School of Medicine
Being able to answer, "Will my device get reimbursed?" has become critical, even for early development stage life sciences companies. From early investment rounds, investors want assurance of a return on their investment, and while they may not expect start-up companies to have all the...
