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2017 Nov 08

Standard of Cure | Winners in the War on Cancer

8:30am to 5:00pm

Location: 

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

10th Annual BIDMC Cancer Symposium

This program is offered free of charge, but you must register by November 3, 2017!

Cancer cures are maddeningly elusive, but important victories have been achieved and others are on the horizon.  Join us on the 10th anniversary of the...

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2017 Nov 08

24 Hours of Stem Cells

6:00pm

Location: 

Virtual - log on after registering

5th Annual Gibco 24 Hours of Stem Cells (if you log on anytime after 8:00 a.m., regardless of your time zone, programming will have started or be in progress)

Register at thermofisher.com/24hours

Program features presentations by Alex Meissner and Christine Mummery.  See below for a flyer to share with your lab.

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2017 Oct 18

How to live and love the biotech rollercoaster

3:30pm to 4:30pm

Location: 

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

Celixir plc is a UK stem cell company with two Phase 3 products, and is expected to IPO in 2018 with the founders still retaining 75% of the equity (after 5 rounds of external funding).

Founders Prof. Sir Martin Evans (2007 Nobel Laureate) and CEO Ajan Reginald (Former Global Head of New Technologies, Roche Pharmaceuticals),...

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2017 Oct 18

How to live and love the biotech rollercoaster

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

Harvard University, Sherman-Fairchild Building, Room G62, 7 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA

Celixir plc is a UK stem cell company with two Phase 3 products, and is expected to IPO in 2018 with the founders still retaining 75% of the equity (after 5 rounds of external funding).

Founders Prof. Sir Martin Evans (2007 Nobel Laureate) and CEO Ajan Reginald (Former Global Head of New Technologies, Roche...

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2017 Oct 16

Using stem cells to make functional islets for diabetics AND Developmental Origins of Adult Disease: Insights into Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

4:00pm to 5:00pm

Location: 

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

DRB Student Data Club & Faculty Seminar Series

Using stem cells to make functional islets for diabetics
Doug Melton, PhD

Harvard University and HHMI

Developmental Origins of Adult Disease: Insights from Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
Olivia Weeks
BBS G5
Laboratory of Dr. Wolfram Goessling

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2017 Oct 16

From Pipette to Pen: Science Writing for General Audiences

4:00pm to 7:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Medical School, New Research Building, Room 1031, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA

Nanocourse of the Genetics Department

Lecturers:
Ali Rudolph, Kelsey Tyssowski, Katherine Wu

In the era of fake news and alternative facts, communicating science clearly and effectively to the general public is more important than ever. From tweets to Facebook posts to news articles, there are countless media through which we can bring science to people from all walks of life. This nanocourse offers the opportunity to learn the basics of science writing for general audiences through...

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2017 Oct 10

CRISPR-Cas Systems and the Future of Genome Editing

9:00am to 12:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Medical School, Armenise Amphitheater, 210 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA

Nanocourse of the Genetics Department

Lecturers:
J. Keith Joung, John Doench, and Morgan Maeder

Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR) RNAs and their CRISPR-associated (Cas) proteins are an important part of adaptive immune systems in many prokaryotes. CRISPR-Cas systems function as RNA-directed endonucleases that can target nucleic acids in a sequence-specific manner and are now widely used as genome editing tools. In this course, we will provide lectures...

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2017 Nov 06

DF/HCC Celebration of Junior Investigators

1:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 450 Brookline Avenue, 3rd Floor, Boston, MA 02215

Please save the date (November 6th, 2017) for an upcoming half-day symposium to highlight the talent of junior investigators at Dana Farber/Harvard Cancer Center (DF/HCC) who are producing important research in several areas of population science, including epidemiology, biostatistics, outcomes, diversity and survivorship. A primary aim of this symposium is to build opportunities for collaboration for junior investigators and provide a forum for new interactions and projects...

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