Mini-Symposia and Seminars
Upcoming mini-symposium: “Controlling Hypertension: from basic research to the clinic”
April 16, 2010
NANOMEDICINE SYMPOSIUM: co-organized by BU Nanotechnology Center, Evans Cente and DOM (chaired by: Drs. Bennett Goldberg and Selim Unlu) Wednesday, May 13, 2009 Dr. Jeffery Schloss, co-chair of the NIH Nanotechnology Task Force “$1000 genomes — who needs them and how will we get them?”
Dr. Shuvo Roy, University of California, San Francisco -”Towards Total Renal Replacement using Silicon Nanopore Membrane Technology”
Dr. Daniel Kohane, Harvard Medical School and Children’s Hospital, Boston – “Drug delivery systems: nano, micro, and macro?”
IN PREPARATION for the symposium, faculty in nanoscience from Boston University presented research seminars in each of three areas (talks are now available online at http://nanoscience.bu.edu/nanomedicine/
Mini-symposium on Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine (chaired by Dr. Katya Ravid), April 17, 2009
The Program:
1. “Development of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS)”
Konrad Hochedlinger, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Cancer Center and Center for Regenerative Medicine
2. “Stem cells of the skin: their biology and clinical promise”
Elaine Fuchs, Ph.D.
Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development
The Rockefeller University
3. “Endothelial progenitor cells in regenerative medicine “
Douglas W. Losordo, M.D.
Eileen M. Foell Professor of Heart Research
Director, Program in Cardiovascular Regenerative Medicine
Director, Feinberg Cardiovascular Research Institute
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
4. “Stem cell self-renewal versus cancer cell proliferation”
Sean J. Morrison, PhD
Henry Sewall Professor in Medicine
Director, Center for Stem Cell Biology
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
Past Evans Speakers
Evans Seminar Speakers: 1994 to present
1994-95
Janet Rowley
David Livingston
Stanley B. Prusiner
Oliver Smithies
1995-96
Joan Ruderman
Cliff Tabin
Robert A. Weinberg
Robert Horvitz
Phillippa Marrack Vishva Dixit
James E. Darnell
Michael Karin
1996-97
Barry Gumbiiner
Peter Agre
Masashi Yanagisawa
Andrew McMahon
Carlo Croce
David Clapham
Barry Bloom
Jeffrey Friedman
Regis Kelly
Inder Verma
1997-98
Mark Krasnow
Elaine Fuchs
John Robbins
Steve Baylin
Rodrigo Bravo
Jeffrey Gordon
Greg Petsko
Kenneth Chien
1998-99
George Yancopoulos
C. Ronald Kahn
Jim Ihle
Richard Hynes
Michael Rosbash
Mary-Claire King
Israel Caro
Donald Ganem
1999-2000
Tyler Jacks
Darwin Prockop
Henry Bourne
Stanley Korsmeyer
Ferid Murad
David Cox
Joseph Schlessinger
2000-2001
Robert Lanza
Carol Prives
David Ron
Marlene Rabinovitch
2001-2002
Harvey Herschman
Anita Robrts
Leonard Guarente
Richard Lifton
C. D. Allis
Leonard Zon
Richard Flavell
Lucca Cavali-Sforza
2002-2003
Kenneth Walsh
Michael Lenardo
Jeffrey Kelly
Henry Kronenberg
Roger Cone
Susan Lindquist
Morris Birnbaum
Stanley Falkow
Alan Sher
Robert Shreiber
2003-2004
Barbara Corkey
Catherine Verfaillie
Katherine High
Helen Blau
Judy Liberman
Janet Rossant
Carol Greider
Elizabeth Nabel
Kathryn Holmes
