2015哈佛医学院华人专家学者联合会年会

 2015 Harvard Chinese Life Science Symposium

－Translating Innovation from Life Science Research to Medicine

Time: March, 28, 2015, 9am-6pm

Location: Jimmy Fund Auditorium 35 Binney St, Boston, MA 02115

Organized by: HMS-CSSA & HSPH-CSSA

The Harvard Chinese Life Sciences Symposium is the most influential annual event co-organized by HMS-CSSA and HSPH-CSSA, which draws several hundreds of participants from both the US and China every year since 2012. The symposium covers basic life science research, translational medicine and biopharmaceutical industries, with the goal of encouraging open dialogue and exploring potential collaborations. The confirmed speakers of 2015 include:

Opening Remarks

Dr. Edward Benz 

CEO of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School

Session 1: Technology Innovation Drives Development of Medicine

Dr. Xiaoliang Xie

Professor, Harvard University; Member of National Academy of Sciences

Life at the Single Molecule Level

Dr. Yi Zhang

Professor, Harvard Medical School; Investigator of Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Understanding Active Demethylation and SCNT through Tool Development

Dr. Feng Zhang

Assistant Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Genome Editing Technologies and Applications

Dr. Peng Yin

Associate Professor, Wyss Institute, Harvard Medical School

DNA Probes for Highly Multiplexed Super-resolution Imaging

Session 2: Cancer Research and Therapeutics

Dr. Lieping Chen

Professor, Director of Cancer Immunology

Yale University School of Medicine

2014 Coley Award Winner for discovering PD-L1

A Perspective in Immune Modulation Therapy of Cancer

Dr. Jean Zhao

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

Targeting the PI3K/PTEN Pathway in Cancer: from Mouse Genetics to Human Therapies

Session 3: Translational Medicine 

Dr. David Williams

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

Current President of American Society of Hematology (ASH)

Update on Use of Gene Therapy for Monogenic Diseases: the Bad, the Good and the Future

Dr. Guangping Gao

Professor, Founding Director of the Gene Therapy Center

University of Massachusetts Medical School

Viral Vector-Based In Vivo Gene Therapy

Annual Distinguished Research Award Presentation and ceremony

For early bird registration, please follow the following link:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2015-harvard-chinese-life-science-symposium-tickets-15969700805

The conference is organized by Harvard Medical School-Chinese Scientists and Scholars Association (HMS-CSSA) and Harvard School of Public Health-Chinese Students and Scientists Association (HSPH-CSSA). HMS-CSSA a non-profit, science-driven, research-oriented organization. It is dedicated to building a dynamic platform to facilitate communications among its ~2400 scholar and scientist members in Harvard Medical School and the seventeen affiliated hospitals/institutions, and to strengthening multifaceted collaborations among scientists in US and China. Information about previous conferences and other events can be found at our website http://hms-cssa.org/wp/.

HMS-CSSA 2015 organizing committee

Organizing committee advisors:

Xi He, Professor, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Xiaole Shirley Liu, Professor, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard School of Public Health

Yi Zhang, Professor, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Jiping Wang, Assistant Professor, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School

William Pu, Associate Professor, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School

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

Jing Ma, Associate Professor, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard School of Public Health

Jianzhu Chen, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Sponsors:

Biocytogen  

http://www.biocytogen.com

Developing Novel Gene-Targeted Models to Advance Life Science Research

Life Technologies

https://www.lifetechnologies.com/us/en/home.html

Integrated Systems for genetic Analysis

BGI   华大基因

http://www.genomics.cn/en/index

BGI, founded in 1999 with the vision of using genomics to benefit the human race, is now the world’s largest genomics organization.