Harvard Medical School, TMEC Amphitheater, 260 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA
Guest speaker: Gregory L. Verdine Venture Partner, Third Rock Ventures Erving Professor of Chemistry, Harvard University
What does it take to commercialize academic innovation? Join us for a discussion of translational research in academia and biotech, followed by networking and refreshments. RSVP on Eventbrite: http://hvrd.me/ON2xH
For more information, visit: http://otd.harvard.edu/news-events/events/pathways-to-entrepreneurship-gregory-verdine
Harvard Medical School, Modell Center for Immunology, Rosen Lecture Hall 100A, 210 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA
Curriculum Fellows Program of Harvard Medical School
Guest presenter: Bennett Goldberg, PhD Director of STEM Education Initiatives in the Office of the Provost Boston University Professor of Physics, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and Professor of Education Boston University
More than 80% of future STEM faculty that will teach the next generation of students in the 4,500+ institutions of higher education in the US receive their...
Harvard Medical School, New Research Building, Room 350, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA
Special Invited Seminar of the Heart and Vascular Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Guest speaker: David Sassoon, PhD Director of Research INSERM Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine Team Universite de Pierre et Marie Curie - Sorbonne Universites
Guest speaker: Brian J. Anderson Whitehead Institute
Join the ISSCR for a Stem Cells in Focus webinar entitled "Ethical Considerations for Stem Cell Research," an exploration of the ethical and regulatory questions that often surround stem cell research and use.
Dr. Brian J. Abraham of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research will clarify and contextualize some of these issues, highlighting multiple topics including stem cell sources, proper informed consent, oversight, and genetic modifications made to stem cells...
Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein West A, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Program of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School
Can brain imaging be a "pain-o-meter" that tells courts when a person is in pain? Can fMRI help us discern whether intractable chronic pain is "all in your head" or all in the brain - or will it require us to reconsider that distinction? Leading neuroscientists, legal scholars, and bioethicists will debate standards and limits on how the law can use brain science to get smarter about a subject that touches everyone....