Frontiers
in Gene and Molecular Therapies
Lecture Series
2008-2009
Hosted by:
Mark A.
Kay, M.D., Ph.D., Director of Human Gene Therapy
Sponsored by the Department of Pediatrics
3:00-4:00
p.m. at Munzer Auditorium
Beckman Center
Stanford University
Reception to follow
Scheduled Speakers:
November 13 , 2008: Dieter Gruenert, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute, Adjunct Professor of the University of California, San Francisco and the University of Vermont
“Sequence-specific gene modification: Implications for sickle cell anemia and cystic fibrosis”
January 22, 2009: Punam Malik, M.D., Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Program Leader of the Molecular and Gene Therapy Program, and Deputy Director of the Comprehensive Sickle Cell Program for the University of Cincinnati
“Gene therapy for red cell disorders”
February 5, 2009: Ian MacLachlan, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer, Protiva Biotherapeutics, Inc.
“Considerations for the development of siRNA-based drugs”
April 2, 2009: Daniel Anderson, Ph.D., David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Combinatorial development of biomaterials for tissue engineering and drug delivery”
April 23, 2009: David Root, Ph.D., Director of the RNA Interference Platform and Project Leader of the RNAi Consortium for the Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“RNAi screening approaches to cancer”
May 7, 2009: Kenneth S. Zaret, Ph.D., Chair in Cancer Biology, Leader of the Cell and Developmental Biology Program and Leader of the Keystone Program in Epigenetics and Progenitor Cells for the Fox Chase Cancer Center
“Specifiying liver and pancreas progenitors”
*May 14, 2009: Charles Coutelle, Ph.D., Professor, Imperial College, London
“Towards Prevention of Genetic Disease by in utero Gene Therapy -- Animal models, target disease and ethical considerations”
*Note special time of 2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
May 21, 2009: Snorri Thorgeirsson, M.D., Ph.D., Chief, Laboratory of Experimental Carcinogenesis of the National Institutes of Health and the National Cancer Institute
"Genomics of human liver cancer"
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