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| Monday, September 13, 2010
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Noon - 1:00 PM
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HNRCA Seminar Series - 9/13/10 Larry Feig, Ph.D.
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Fall 2010 Seminar Series: The Brain: New Insights into Function, Age-Related Functional Decline, and Their Nutritional Modulation
“Transgenerational Effects of an Enriched Environment on Signaling Pathways Involved in Memory Formation”
Larry Feig, Tufts Medical School
HNRCA Auditorium, 711 Washington Street, Boston Campus, Tufts University
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Tristan Mangindin
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12:30 PM - 6:30 PM
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Symposium Therapeutic Peptides in the Treatment of Cancer
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Symposium: Therapeutic Peptides in the Treatment of Cancer
Alumni Lounge, 15th Floor, 1 Kneeland Street, Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, Boston
12:30-12:40 James D. Baleja, Ph.D., Tufts University, Opening Remarks
12:40-1:25 Janice Reichert, Ph.D., Tufts University, "Peptide therapeutics: Global development trends"
1:30-2:15 Lidija Covic, Ph.D., Tufts Medical Center, “Pepducins for the Treatment of Metastatic Cancer"
2:20-3:05 William Bachovchin, Ph.D., Tufts University, “Peptide Boronic Acid Inhibitors in the Treatment of Cancer”
3:05-3:20 Coffee Break
3:20-4:05 Vladimir Torchilin, Ph.D., Northeastern University, “Pharmaceutical nanocarriers modified with cell-penetrating peptides: Enhanced interaction with cells”
4:10-5:10 Sanjay Awasthi, M.D., Univ. of North Texas Medical School, "Targeting Ralbp1 for Therapy of Cancer and Diabetes"
5:15-5:30 James D. Baleja, Closing Remarks
5:30-6:30 Reception
Co-Sponsored by the Tufts Medical School Biochemistry Department
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Katie Griffin
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| Tuesday, September 14, 2010
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4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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Iron chelation in Thalassemia: Where do we go next?
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Harvard Blood Scholars Monthly Colloquium
Ellis J. Neufeld, Egan Family Foundation Professor of Transitional Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Cannon Room, Building C, Harvard Medical School
*refreshments will be served.
For more information visit www.bloodscholars.org
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Meghan Sullivan
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4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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WEST Fall Kickoff Party & Networking Event
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Join Women Entrepreneurs in Science & Technology/ WEST for the "Fall Kickoff & Networking Event", and help us celebrate the organization's 10th anniversary! This is a great opportunity for formal and informal networking, and a chance to connect with old colleagues as well as to grow your network. Enjoy an exciting party with a spectacular view overlooking the Charles River.
Everyone is invited to attend. More info at www.WESTorg.org.
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Susan Silberman
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| Wednesday, September 15, 2010
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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
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Meet with the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Development Leadership: Discussions on Upcoming SBIR & STTR Funding Opportunities, the Bridge Award, and Tips for Applying
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Meet with the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Development Leadership
Discussions on Upcoming SBIR & STTR Funding Opportunities, the Bridge Award, and Tips for Applying
The Koch Institute (KI) at MIT invites you to learn more about National Cancer Institute's (NCI) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) programs and upcoming funding opportunities in Cambridge, MA on September 15th 2010. Learn about how your company may be eligible to tap into the financial resources and new funding opportunities available from the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Programs.
EVENT PROGRAM
11:00 – 12:30 pm: NCI SBIR Overview & Upcoming Funding Opportunities
* Deepa Narayanan, MS, Program Director, NCI SBIR Development Center, National Cancer Institute
* Andrew Kurtz, PhD, Program Director, NCI SBIR Development Center, National Cancer Institute
Location: Broad Auditorium, 7 Cambridge Center, Cambridge
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm: Meet the Experts -- SBIR Program Directors will be available for one-on-one discussions (rsvp to heckbert@mit.edu to reserve time slot)
* Deepa Narayanan
* Andrew Kurtz
Location: Koch Institute, 50 Ames Street, (E18-603), Cambridge
ADDITIONAL DETAILS
Deepa Narayanan & Andrew Kurtz from the NCI SBIR Development Center will discuss the upcoming SBIR and STTR funding opportunities, the Bridge Award and offer practical advice on strategies for developing successful NCI SBIR & STTR funding proposals. Presentations and discussions will provide in-depth information about funding opportunities available to small businesses to support the research, development, and commercialization of technologies and products designed to prevent, diagnose, and treat cancer.
New contract funding opportunities for about $11MM in a range of novel technology areas to help successfully finance and lead innovations to commercialization will be discussed. The NCI SBIR Program solicits proposals for SBIR contracts once annually. As compared to grant funding opportunities, SBIR contract topics are focused in scope and require the completion of specific activities and deliverables. In order to catalyze targeted technology development in key need areas that will result in a commercial product, the NCI SBIR Program is moving more of its resources towards contracts. The SBIR and STTR Programs offer funding in nanotechnology, anti-cancer agents, biomarkers, proteomics, pharmacodynamics, and many more areas of interest to the NCI.
In addition, the session will highlight the new SBIR Phase II Bridge Award, which provides up to $3 million funding to advance a promising therapeutic or device toward commercialization.
Also learn about new programs that NCI has launched to support its SBIR companies in moving their technologies towards the marketplace. These include the NCI SBIR Investor Forum to be held November 9th, 2010 at Stanford University. This is a unique opportunity for NCI's top SBIR firms to showcase their companies to investors. NCI will also describe its new SBIR Regulatory Assistance Program in development.
For more information about this NCI SBIR & STTR, please visit http://sbir.cancer.gov.
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Mary Heckbert
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6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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| Thursday, September 16, 2010
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Noon - 1:00 PM
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4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
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Optogenetic studies of olfactory circuits in rodents
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2010 MIT Colloquium on the Brain and Cognition
Speaker: Venkatesh N. Murthy, Professor of Molecular & Cellular Biology, Harvard University
Singleton Auditorium, Room 3002, Building 46, MIT
Host: Yingxi Lin
http://bcs.mit.edu/newsevents/colloquia.html
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Kathleen Dickey
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7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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| Friday, September 17, 2010
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1:45 PM - 3:00 PM
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Week of Sunday, September 12, 2010
