9:00am – 9:20am

Registration and Light refreshment

9:30 am – 9:45 am

Opening Remarks

Dr. Edward Benz

CEO, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School

 (Facilitator: Dr. Jin Zhang)

Technology innovation drives development in Medicine

 (Facilitator: Dr. Shirley Liu)

9:45 am – 10:30 am

Life at the Single Molecule Level.

Dr. Xiaoliang Xie

Mallinckrodt Professor, Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Harvard University

10:30 am – 11:15 am

Understanding active demethylation and SCNT through tool development

Dr. Yi Zhang 

Professor, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

11:15 am – 12:00 pm

Intersectional genetic mapping of spinal microcircuits processing mechanical pain

Dr. Feng Zhang

Assistant Professor, Broad Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

12: 00 pm – 12:45 pm

DNA probes for highly multiplexed super-resolution imaging

Dr. Peng Yin

Associate Professor, Wyss Institute, Harvard Medical School

12:45 pm – 1:00 pm

Lunch

Cancer Research

(Facilitator: Dr. Jiping Wang)

1:15 pm – 2:00 pm

A perspective in immune modulation therapy of cancer.

Dr. Lieping Chen

Professor,  Yale University

Director, Cancer Immunology Program at Yale Cancer Center

2:00 pm – 2:45 pm

Targeting the PI3K/PTEN pathway in cancer: from mouse genetics to human therapies

Dr. Jean Zhao

Associate Professor, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School

2:45 pm – 3:00 pm

Tea Break

Translational Medicine

(Facilitator: Dr. William Pu)

3:00 pm – 3:45 pm

Update on use of gene therapy for monogenic diseases: the bad, the good and the future

Dr. David Williams

Professor, Director of Translational Medicine Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School

3:45 pm – 4:30 pm

Viral Vector-Based In Vivo Gene Therapy

Dr. Guangping Gao 

Professor, University of Massachusetts Medical School

4:30 pm – 5:15 pm

TBA

Dr. Nathanael Gray

Professor, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School

5:15 pm – 6:00 pm

2014 Harvard Chinese Life Science Distinguished Research Award Ceremony

6:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Reception (Invited only)