Third Annual NIH Director’s
Pioneer Award Symposium
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Auditorium
Natcher Conference Center (Building 45)
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland
Agenda
8:15 a.m. | Welcome Jeremy M. Berg, Ph.D., NIGMS, NIH |
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8:30 a.m. | Introductory Remarks and Announcement of 2007 Pioneer Award Recipients Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D., NIH |
8:50 a.m. | Dominant Drug Targets in RNA Viruses Karla Kirkegaard, Ph.D., Stanford University School of Medicine |
9:10 a.m. | New Approaches to Fight Bacterial Infections Evgeny Nudler, Ph.D., New York University School of Medicine |
9:30 a.m. | It's a Jungle in There: Explorations of the Human Microbiome David Relman, M.D., Stanford University |
9:50 a.m. | Break |
10:20 a.m. | Neurogrid: Emulating a Million Neurons in the Cortex Kwabena Boahen, Ph.D., Stanford University |
10:40 a.m. | Putting Nanostructures to Work for Biomedical Resrch Younan Xia, Ph.D., Washington University in St. Loueais |
11:00 a.m. | Understanding Adaptive Immunity and Its Aberrant Regulation: A Crossroad of the Physical, Life, and Engineering Sciences Arup Chakraborty, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
11:20 a.m. | Moving the Protein Folding Problem from the Test Tube to the Cell Lila Gierasch, Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Amherst |
11:40 a.m. | Protein Biophysics Under Physiological Conditions Gary Pielak, Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Noon | Lunch |
1:30 p.m. | Monitoring the Immune System with Synthetic Molecule Microarrays: A New Route to Biomarker Discovery Thomas Kodadek, Ph.D., University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas |
1:50 p.m. | Proteoglycan Interactions with Sonic Hedgehog Are Selectively Required for Mitogenic Responses Rosalind Segal, M.D., Ph.D., Dana-Farber Cancer Institute |
2:10 p.m. | Break |
2:30 p.m. | Making Human Adult Stem Cell Expansion Routine James Sherley, M.D., Ph.D., Boston Biomedical Research Institute |
2:50 p.m. | Elucidating Mechanisms of Intracellular Scaling Rebecca Heald, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley |
3:10 p.m. | Suspended Animation of Non-hibernating Mammals Cheng Chi Lee, Ph.D., University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston |
3:30 p.m. | Concurrent Poster Session and Reception |
5:30 p.m. | Close |
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