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  • 2015 Mar 27

    Lower Extremity: Innovations and Discovery

    8:00am to 5:30pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Medical School, Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, Rotunda Room, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA

    Wyss Annual Diabetes Symposium

    Please click here to register and learn more.

    Diabetic foot problems significantly impair the quality of life of diabetic patients. Each year in the United States, these complications lead to more than 750,000 new diabetic foot ulcers and 70,000 lower extremity amputations. Our inaugural one-day symposium will promote better understanding of the unmet management needs of Diabetic Lower Extremity (DLE) complications and the new therapeutic...

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  • 2015 Mar 26

    Stem cell dynamics and clonal evolution in squamous carcinogenesis

    3:00pm to 5:00pm

    Location: 

    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Dana 1620, 44 Binney Street, Boston, MA

    HSCI Cancer Program Symposium

    Guest speaker:
    Phil Jones, FMedSci
    Programme Leader
    MRC Cancer Unit
    University of Cambridge
    Hutchison/MRC Research Centre

    Additional presentations by
    Bradley Bernstein, MD, PhD (MGH and HHMI)
    "Epigenetic plasticity of drug-tolerant glioblastoma cells"

    and
    Franziska Michor, PhD (DFCI and HSPH)
    "Systems biology of cancer stem cells"

    ...

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  • 2015 Mar 26

    Quality Control of iPS-induced Neurons

    9:00am to 10:00am

    Location: 

    Harvard Medical School, New Research Building, Room 350, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA

    Guest speakers:
    Ajamete Kaykas, PhD
    "Generation of isogenic-hPSC neuronal disease models"
    Senior Investigator
    and
    Bilada Bilikan, PhD
    "High-throughput cellular phenotyping of hPSC-derived neuronal sub-types"
    Neuroscience Group
    Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research

    Moderators:
    Elizabeth Buttermore and Maria Sundberg

  • 2015 Mar 26

    MassBio Annual Meeting 2015: The Business of Science

    Thu - Fri, Mar 26 to Mar 27, 8:00am - 5:00pm

    Location: 

    RoyalSonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA

    Mark Levin, Partner, Third Rock Ventures, to be honored with Henri A. Termeer Innovative Leadership Award

    Keynote speakers:
    Kathy Giusti
    Founder & Executive Chairman
    Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation

    and

    Andrew Lo
    Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor and Director
    MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering

    The MassBio Annual Meeting is a two day event that focuses on the most timely and critical challenges facing the Massachusetts biotechnology industry. As MassBio's largest event,...

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  • 2015 Mar 18

    Human Pluripotent Stem Cells to Study and Treat Retinal Diseases: Understanding the Limits

    4:00pm to 5:00pm

    Location: 

    Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Meltzer Auditorium, 243 Charles Street, Boston, MA 02114

    Genetic and Regenerative Medicine of Eye Disease

    Organized by the Ocular Regenerative Medicine Institute (ORMI) & Ocular Genomics Institute (OGI)

    Guest speaker:
    David Gamm, MD, PhD
    Associate Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
    RRF Emmett A. Humble Distinguished Director
    McPherson Eye Research Institute
    University of Wisconsin

    The Ocular Regenerative Medicine Institute (ORMI) & Ocular Genomics Institute (OGI) invites you to the 2nd annual "Genetic & Regenerative Medicine of Eye Disease"...

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  • 2015 Mar 17

    Stem Cell, their Niches and Oncogenesis

    4:00pm to 5:00pm

    Location: 

    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Jimmy Fund Auditorium, 35 Binney Street, Boston, MA

    Guest speaker:
    David Scadden, MD
    Gerald & Darlene Jordan Professor of Medicine, Harvard University
    Director, MGH Center for Regenerative Medicine
    Co-Director, Harvard Stem Cell Institute

    Host:  Irene Ghobrial, MD

    For more information, please email claudia_steele@dfci.harvard.edu

  • 2015 Mar 10

    Toward single-cell population genomics

    4:30pm to 6:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Medical School, Countway Library, Minot Room, 5th floor, 10 Shattuck Street, Boston

    Boston Single-Cell Network Seminar

    Guest speakers:
    Paul Blainey, PhD
    Core Member, Broad Institute
    Assistant Professor, Biological Engineering, MIT

    and

    Liyi (Lily) Xu
    Graduate Student, Blainey Lab

    Abstract:
    The incredible biological resolution of single-cell sequencing has been clearly demonstrated in recent studies.  By contrast, the accuracy and throughput of single-cell...

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  • 2015 Mar 10

    Inhibiting STAT3/5 Activity in Cancer with Small Molecules

    4:00pm to 5:00pm

    Location: 

    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Jimmy Fund Auditorium, 35 Binney Street, Boston, MA

    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Seminars in Oncology | Rose Winer Levin Lecture

    Guest speaker:
    Patrick T. Gunning, PhD
    Canada Research Chair & Associate Professor of Chemistry
    University of Toronto

    Hosted by:David Frank, MD, PhD

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