Harvard Stem Cell Institute Events Update
Week of October 15th
| "Developing screening and transplantation aids for hESC derived cells"
HSCI Seminar Series at MGH's Center for Regenerative Medicine |
| When: October 16 2007 ~ 12:15 - 1:15 p.m.
Where: Simches Research Building, 3rd Floor Large Conference Room, 185 Cambridge St., Boston
Description:
Mahendra Rao, MD, PhD
Vice President, Research, Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
Invitrogen
Pizza will be provided. |
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| | Public Forum: Stem Cells and the Media |
| When: October 18th 2007 ~ 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Where: Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Radcliffe Gym, Second Floor, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
Description:
This event is offered free to charge to the general public, but registration is required. Please register online at the website, www.hsci.harvard.edu/node/1038 or by calling 617.496.6647.
Light refreshments will be served.
Moderator: B.D. Colen, Sr. Communications Officer for University Science, Harvard University
Panelists:
Mary Carmichael, General Editor for Health and Science, Newsweek
Gideon Gil, Heath and Science Editor, The Boston Globe
Will Saletan, Slate
Dan Vergano, USA Today and 2007 Nieman Fellow | Fourth Annual Tony & Shelly Malkin Stem Cell Symposium:
Cancer Stem Cells
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| When: November 2nd 2007
Where: Harvard Club of Boston, 374 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
Description:
Faculty Co-Chairs: Gary Gilliland and Jerome Ritz
Full day event
Abstract submission deadline is this Wednesday, October 17!
Abstracts are being accepted for the scientific poster session being held in conjunction with this event (research presented need not be restricted to the field of cancer). Researchers who submit an abstract will be automatically registered for the Symposium as well as the dinner. The deadline for submitting an abstract is Wednesday, October 17.
For registration, and abstract submission, please visit the website at: www.hsci.harvard.edu/node/414.
Guest speakers:
John E. Dick, PhD
Canada Research Chair in Stem Cell Biology/Director, Program in Stem Cell Biology, Toronto General Research Institute
"Modeling the leukemogenic process in human cells"
Scott A. Armstrong, MD, PhD
Dana Farber Cancer Institute
"Cellular origins of leukemia stem cells"
Owen N. Witte, MD
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, UCLA
"Stem cells for prostate development and prostate cancer"
Kornelia Polyak, MD, PhD
Dana Farber Cancer Institute
"Stem cells and cancer in the breast"
Peter Dirks, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, University of Toronto Division of Neurosurgery/Program in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology
"Cancer stem cells at the root of human and mouse brain cancer"
Dinner (by invitation only)
Jeffrey Flier, MD
Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
"Biomedical science at Harvard: Should we change the paradigm?"
| For a complete listing of events, please visit the HSCI events page at
www.hsci.harvard.edu/upcoming_events/ |
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