2016
Harvard Chinese Life Science Annual Research Symposium 2016
April 30, 2016 (Saturday)
Folkman Auditorium, Enders Building, Children’s Hospital Boston
320 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115
Lunch will be served.
Please register: http://goo.gl/forms/tl22HecioW
| 8:45 am – 9:15am | Registration and Light refreshment |
| 9:15 am – 9:30am | Opening Remarks
Dr. Edward Benz President, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Professor, Harvard Medical School |
| Precision Medicine | |
| 9:30 am – 10:10am | Genome alterations and targeted therapies for cancer
Dr. Matthew Meyerson Professor, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute & Harvard Medical School Institute Member, Broad Institute Director, Center for Cancer Genome Discovery at DFCI |
| 10:10am – 10:50am | RNA methylation in gene expression regulation
Dr. Chuan He Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute John T. Wilson Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago |
| 10:50am – 11:30am | Bacteriolytic Cancer Therapy – From Bench to Bedside
Dr. Shibin Zhou Associate Professor, Director, Experimental Therapeutics Ludwig Center for Cancer Genetics and Therapeutics Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine |
| 11:30am – 12:10pm | From Precision Medicine to Precision Public Health
Dr. Frank Hu Professor, Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School Member, National Academy of Medicine |
| 12:10pm – 1:15pm | Lunch |
| Cancer Immunotherapy | |
| 1:15pm – 1:55pm | PD-1 cancer immunotherapy
Dr. Gordon Freeman Professor, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School. |
| 1:55pm – 2:35pm | Modeling Human Tumor and Immune System in Mice for Studying Cancer Immunotherapy
Dr. Jianzhu Chen Ivan R. Cottrell Professor, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and Department of Biology at MIT |
| 2:35pm – 3:15pm | Inference of tumor immunity and T-cell receptor repertoire from TCGA RNA-seq data
Dr. Shirley Liu Professor, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Director, Center of Functional Cancer Epigenetics at DFCI |
| 3:15pm – 3:30pm | Tea Break |
| Innovations in Biology and Translational Research | |
| 3:30pm – 4:10pm | Growth and Size Biology: From Research to Translations
Dr. Tian Xu Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Professor, Yale University School of Medicine |
| 4:10pm – 4:50pm | Mechanistic Basis of Metabolic Evolution in Plants
Dr. Jing-Ke Weng Member, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research Thomas D. and Virginia W. Cabot Assistant Professor of Biology, MIT |
| 4:50pm – 5:30pm | Regulation of intracellular proteostasis by protein deubiquitination.
Dr. Junying Yuan Elizabeth D. Hay Professor of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School Fellow, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
| 5:30pm – 5:50pm | 2016 Harvard Chinese Life Science Distinguished Research
Award Ceremony |
| 6:30pm – 8:30pm | Reception (Invited only) |
Organized by:
Harvard Medical School Chinese Scholars & Scientists Association
Harvard School of Public Health Chinese Scholars & Scientists Association