2011 Schedule

Weekly meetings will be held 4-6 pm at:
Stanley Hall 179, UC Berkeley
Byers Hall 212, UCSF Mission Bay
If you have any questions, contact Linda Eng (415-476-5716).

Date Location Speaker Topic
August 31 UCSF Andy Grove and Panel Translational Medicine: Key to Progress or Bridge to Nowhere?
September 7 UCB Ahmed Ghouri Approaches to Data Mining of Personal Genetic Information
September 8 UCSF Daniel Burnett The Fundamentals of a Fundable Startup
September 14 UCB James Rubenstein Drug Delivery to the Central Nervous System
September 15 UCSF Hanmin Lee Pediatric and Fetal Surgery
September 21 UCB Isha Abdullah Transforming Transplant Diagnostics
September 22 UCSF Vineeta Singh Monitoring the Injured Brain
September 28 UCB Yerem Yeghiazarians Cardiac Stem Cell Therapy
September 29 UCSF Steven Hetts Interventional Neuroradiology and Interventional MRI
October 5 UCB Gary Schoolnik & Scott Tabakman Plasmonic Films for Surface-Enhanced Biosensing Applications
October 6 UCSF Jacque Duncan Novel Approaches to See Retinal Cells in Living Eyes
October 12 UCB Gil Rabinovici & Michael Weiner How do you measure success? Developing biological outcome measures for Alzheimer’s disease clinical trials
October 13 UCSF Michael Matthay Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Treatment of Acute Lung Injury
October 19 UCB Steven Finkbeiner TBD
October 20 UCSF Sigurd Berven New technologies in spine surgery: Identifying a need and measuring a value
October 26 UCB Michael Busch, Eric Delwart, & William Reed Blood Safety: Past, Present and Future
October 27 UCSF Michael Conte Engineering a Better Vein Graft: An Integrated Translational Approach
November 2 UCB David Phillips Antithrombotic Drug Discovery
November 3 UCSF Michael Harrison Pediatric Device Consortium Projects
November 9 UCB Krystof Bankiewicz Translational journey into the brain, why well controlled drug delivery matters
November 10 UCSF Sarah Arron Lasers and Light in Dermatologic Surgery: Not Your Father’s Lightsaber
November 16 UCB Robert Cohen Challenges in Developing and Delivering Next-Generation Cancer Care: Lung Cancer as a Paradigm
November 17 UCSF Mervyn Maze Perioperative Inflammation: Is there too much of a good thing?
November 30 UCB Marcelle Cedars & Victor Fujimoto Challenging Problems in In Vitro Fertilization
December 1 UCSF Robin Shaw Heart Failure—Are There Better Ways to Diagnose and Treat?
December 7 UCB Andrew Goldberg Challenges and Opportunities in Obstructive Sleep Apnea
December 8 UCSF Fred Cohen Investing in Bending the Health Care Cost Curve