Past Events

  • 2014 Jun 19

    "You Have a Great Idea, and Nobody Cares"

    4:00pm to 6:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Innovation Lab, Batten Hall, 125 Western Ave., Boston, MA

    You have a great idea and nobody cares: How to figure out who cares and how to get them to buy from you.

    Join Richard Banfield for this workshop, which will give you the essential tools to identify who your customers are and what the various touch points will be along their journey with your product or service. These tools are the same tools used by leading design-driven companies like Apple, Google and Dyson to develop a remarkable and rewarding experience for their customers. From this workshop, you'll learn tools that are both lean and useful for: - Identifying who your...

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  • 2014 Jun 18

    "Stem Cell Therapy for Retinal Degeneration: A Vision for the Future"

    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 Lecture Series

    Guest speaker:
    Robin Ali, PhD
    Professor, Head of Department of Genetics
    University College London
    Hosted by the Ocular Genomics Institute & Ocular Regenerative Medicine Institute

  • 2014 Jun 10

    "Li-Fraumeni Syndrome: Beyond TP53"

    4:00pm to 5:00pm

    Location: 

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

    Frederick P. Li Lecture

    Guest speaker:
    David Malkin, MD
    Professor of Pediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children
    University of Toronto

    Host:  Judy Garber, MD

    For more information or to join the Seminars in Oncology email list, please email: claudia_steele@dfci.harvard.edu

  • 2014 Jun 06

    "Harnessing neuronal competition to rejuvenate aging memory circuits with adult-born neurons"

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Via WebEx - see information below

    HSCI Nervous System Program Webinar Series

    Guest presenter:
    Kathleen McAvoy, PhD (Amar Sahay Lab)
    Post-doctoral Fellow, Center for Regenerative Medicine
    Massachusetts General Hospital

    To start or join the online meeting
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    Go to https://hms.webex.com/hms/j.php?MTID=m3af44289c27a9fe8e8db23ad1c82859c
    Password:  HSCINeuro

  • 2014 Jun 03

    "Dissecting Pluripotency and Differentiation with Network Biology"

    4:00pm to 5:00pm

    Location: 

    Brigham and Women's Hospital, Anesthesia Conference Room, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA

    Next Leaders in Regenerative Medicine Seminar

    Guest speaker:
    George Daley, MD, PhD
    Samuel Lux IV Professor of Hematology/Oncology

    Online registration is required.

    These seminars will provide a platform for regenerative medicine researchers at BWH to come together, network with each other, learn about the latest findings in regenerative medicine and explore...

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  • 2014 Jun 03

    "Targeting Therapy for Triple Negative Breast Cancer"

    4:00pm to 5:00pm

    Location: 

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

    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and DF/HCC Seminars in Oncology

    Guest speaker:
    Andrea Richardson, MD, PhD
    Associate Professor of Pathology
    Brigham and Women's Hospital

    Host:  Myles Brown, MD

    For more information or to join the Seminars in Oncology email list, please email: claudia_steele@dfci.harvard.edu

  • 2014 Jun 03

    Massachusetts Life Sciences Innovation Day

    8:00am to 7:00pm

    Location: 

    The Harvard Club of Boston

     The 7th Massachusetts Life Sciences Innovation (MALSI) Day  is the biggest day for life sciences startups and innovation in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. This is a high-energy, hands-on event which brings together scientific leaders and business experts to mingle with scientists, post-docs, professors, entrepreneurs, innovators, and venture capitalists.

    Can you still be creative? In every lab in every research institution and company, researchers...

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  • 2014 Jun 02

    HSCI Technology Series

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard University, Sherman-Fairchild G62, 7 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA

    Program:
    Susan Dymecki, MD, PhD
    "Decoding the brain serotonergic system:  intersectional genetics and functional probing"

    Fernando Carmargo, PhD
    "Novel clonal and fate mapping approaches for the study of hematopoiesis"

    Attendees are invited to bring a brown bag lunch.  Open to the entire HSCI community.

    Unable to join us in Cambridge?  Join the discussion on WebEx at:
    ...

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  • 2014 May 30

    "What is Life? The Science and Ethics of Making New Life in the Laboratory"

    4:00pm to 5:15pm

    Location: 

    The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, Radcliffe Yard, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

    Registration is required. Please register here.

    How has knowledge of the human genome transformed the biological sciences? How should we assess the promises, perils, and ethics of creating new organisms in the laboratory?

    Eric S. Lander (moderator), president and founding director, Broad Institute of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); professor of biology, MIT; and professor of systems biology...

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