High-Risk, High-Reward Research (HRHR)
High-Risk, High-Reward Research (HRHR)
2024 HRHR Symposium
June 6-7, 2024
- PDF version of the symposium agenda and program booklet will be available closer to the event. Please see the dropdowns below for a web version of the agenda.
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Thursday, June 6, 2024
Session 1 | |
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| 9:00 AM - 9:20 AM | Pulin Li, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research/MIT New Innovator Award Reconstructing Developmental Signaling History of Single Cells via Deep Learning |
| 9:20 AM - 9:40 AM | Buck Trible, Harvard University Early Independence Award The Molecular Basis of Caste Development and Evolution in Ants |
| 9:40 AM - 10:00 AM | Diego Bohorquez, Duke University New Innovator Award The Neural Basis of Sugar Cravings |
| 10:00 AM - 10:15 AM | Break |
| 10:15 AM - 10:30 AM | Tara Schwetz, NIH Remarks from NIH DPCPSI Director |
| 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM | Monica Bertagnolli, NIH Remarks from NIH Director |
Session 2 | |
| 10:45 AM - 11:05 AM | Leor Weinberger, University of California San Francisco Transformative Research Award Discovery of a New Class of Antivirals: Single-Dose, 'Drive' Therapies with a High Barrier to Resistance |
| 11:05 AM - 11:25 AM | Huan Bao, Scripps Research New Innovator Award Designer Nanodiscs to Probe and Reprogram Membrane Biology |
| 11:25 AM - 11:45 AM | Katharine White, University of Notre Dame New Innovator Award Intracellular pH Regulates Stiffness-Associated Cancer Behaviors |
| 11:45 AM - 12:05 PM | Nicolas Rohner, Stowers Institute New Innovator Award Metabolic Adaptation to Nutrient Limitation in Vertebrates |
| 12:05 PM - 1:05 PM | Lunch (on your own) |
Session 3 | |
| 1:05 PM - 1:25 PM | Jacob George, University of Utah Early Independence Award Restoring Upper-Limb Function to Hemiparetic Stroke Patients with an Powered Orthosis Controlled by High-Density Electromyography and Machine Learning |
| 1:25 PM - 1:45 PM | Paul Greer, University of Massachusetts Medical School New Innovator Award Elucidating the Role of MS4A Receptors in Alzheimer’s Disease |
| 1:45 PM - 2:05 PM | Cammie Lesser, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School Transformative Research Award Bacterial Delivery Systems: from Pathogenesis to Therapeutics |
| 2:05 PM - 2:25 PM | Steven Schiff, Yale University Transformative Research Award Neonatal Paenibacilliosis and Predictive Personalized Public Health |
| 2:25 PM - 2:45 PM | Gregory Corder, University of Pennsylvania New Innovator Award Mimicking Opioid Analgesia in Cortical Pain Circuits |
| 2:45 PM - 3:05 PM | William Peranteau, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia New Innovator Award In Utero Gene Editing for a Metabolic Liver Disease in Mice and Nonhuman Primates |
| 3:05 PM - 3:20 PM | Break |
| 3:20 PM - 5:00 PM | Poster Session & Office Hours |
| 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Happy Hour |
Friday, June 7, 2024
Session 4 | |
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| 8:30 AM - 8:50 AM | Jens Schmidt, Michigan State University New Innovator Award Single-Molecule Imaging Reveals the Kinetics of Non-Homologous End-Joining in Living Cells |
| 8:50 AM - 9:10 AM | Bonnie Dittel, Versiti Blood Research Institute Transformative Research Award Building a B Cell Adoptive Cell Therapy for Autoimmunity from the Ground Up |
| 9:10 AM - 9:30 AM | Jason Shepherd, University of Utah Transformative Research Award Virus-Like Intercellular Signaling in the Nervous System |
| 9:30 AM - 9:50 AM | Mandë Holford, Hunter College/The CUNY Graduate Center/The American Museum of Natural History/Weill Cornell Medicine Pioneer Award Decoding and Visualizing Venom Diversity and Neuronal Control of Envenomation in Cephalopods |
| 9:50 AM - 10:10 AM | Natasha Sheybani, University of Virginia Early Independence Award Immunoengineering Next-Generation Cancer Therapies with Focused Ultrasound |
| 10:10 AM - 10:30 AM | Break |
| 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM | Poster Session & Office Hours |
| 12:10 PM - 1:10 PM | Lunch (on your own) |
Session 5 | |
| 1:10 PM - 1:30 PM | Katherine Aboud, Vanderbilt University Early Independence Award Characterization of Real-Time Brain Networks of Reading Comprehension in Adults Using Convergent fMRI-EEG |
| 1:30 PM - 1:50 PM | Yonatan Winetraub, Stanford University Early Independence Award Noninvasive Virtual Biopsy Using Micro-Registered Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) in Human Subjects |
| 1:50 PM - 2:10 PM | Ariel Furst, Massachusetts Institute of Technology New Innovator Award Self-Assembling Materials to Protect Microbes from Processing Stresses |
| 2:10 PM - 2:30 PM | Alexander Villani, Massachusetts General Hospital New Innovator Award Learning the Rules of Immune Tolerance Through the Lenses of the Achilles Heel of Cancer Immunotherapy |
| 2:30 PM - 2:50 PM | Ophir Shalem, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia New Innovator Award Proteome-Scale Measurements of Localization Dynamics Using Pooled Multiplexed Endogenous Gene Tagging and Optical Barcode Sequencing |
| 2:50 PM - 3:10 PM | Break |
Session 6 | |
| 3:10 PM - 3:30 PM | Rajat Gupta, Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard University New Innovator Award High-Throughput CRISPR Screening Links CAD Loci to Endothelial Cell Programs and Causal Pathways |
| 3:30 PM - 3:50 PM | Wesley Legant, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill New Innovator Award Lattice Light Sheet Microscopy – Innovations, Applications and Future Directions |
| 3:50 PM - 4:10 PM | Brian Brown, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Transformative Research Award Spatial Functional Genomics Identifies Regulators of Tumor Immunotherapy |
| 4:10 PM - 4:30 PM | Sylvie Naar, Florida State University Transformative Research Award Developing Antiracism Interventions in Integrated Primary Care |
| 4:30 PM - 4:50 PM | Xuebing Wu, Columbia University New Innovator Award Pervasive Noncoding Translation and its Implications in Cancer, Immunity, Aging, and Evolution |
| 4:50 PM - 5:00 PM | Trish Labosky, NIH Closing Remarks |
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