Biotech and Health Sciences Research Symposium Program
| Date: Thursday April 20, 2017 Location: Krasnow Institute Focus: possibilities created by collaborative clinical partnerships, and specific opportunities for collaborative project/funding development. |
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| 6pm-6:30pm | Welcoming remarks: Dr. Deborah Crawford and Mr. Jeffrey M. Gallagher |
| 6:30pm-8pm | Successful Mason-Clinical Partnerships – Synergies and Strategies Dr. Thomas P. Conrads, Dr. Emanuel Petricoin III, Dr. Andrew Lincoln, Dr. Michelle Harris Love, and Dr. Laurence Bray |
| 8pm-9pm | Networking reception |
| Date: Friday April 21, 2017 Location: Johnson Center (starting in Dewberry Hall) Focus: exploring Mason’s current research portfolio – including fundamental, clinical, and community-based projects, and identifying new funding opportunities to pursue in the future. |
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| 8:30am-9am | Refreshments and poster set-up |
| 9am-9:30am | Welcoming remarks |
| 9:30am-10:30am | Keynote: Successful Team Science Across Disciplines Dr. Michael Gorman |
| 10:30am-10:45am | Break |
| 10:45am-11:30am | Presentation by Dr. Deborah Crawford, focused on Mason’s health research agenda, Institute for Biomedical Innovation, and clinical partnerships |
| 11:30am-12:15pm | Poster session |
| 12:15pm-1pm | Lunch |
| 1pm-2pm | Breakout presentations Breakout A: Evidence Based Interventions Breakout B: Novel Approaches to Disease Treatment Breakout C: Approaches for Understanding and Improving Quality of Life Breakout D: Use of Technology to Improve Health and Healthcare Abstracts for Presentations |
| 2pm-2:15pm | Break |
| 2:15pm-3:15pm | Breakouts presentations Breakout A: Science and Public Policy Breakout B: Grand Health Challenges Breakout C: Technology- and Neuroscience-Based Interventions Breakout D: Discussion of and convening team to pursue NSF Abstracts for Presentations |
| 3:15pm-3:30pm | Break |
| 3:30pm-4:30pm | Breakouts by engagement opportunity Breakout A: Visiting Scientist Programs: Dr. Zarixia Zavala-Ruiz, HHMI and Dr. James Thompson, VNI Breakout B – Commercializing Biotechnology, Mr. Jeffrey Kaczmarek, Prince William Economic Development and Ms. Jennifer Hiltwine, CIT CRCF Program Breakout C – The future of Medicine – Big Data, its Challenges and Promises, Collaborative Opportunities with Inova |