International Symposium
Drexel University College of Medicine presents:
5th International Symposium on Molecular Medicine & Infectious Disease
Promoting Innovation Through Collaboration
November 14–16, 2017
245 N. 15th Street • Philadelphia, PA 19102
Major areas of focus:
- Genomics/bioinformatics and microscopy in infectious disease
- Fibrotic disease and cancer
- HIV disease, vaccines and therapeutics
- Temple/Drexel city-wide neuroAIDS workshop
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The following prizes and lectures were presented during the symposium. Learn more about the prize winners.
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
Drexel Prize in Biotechnology
Ed Boyden, PhD
Associate Professor, Biological Engineering and Brain and Cognitive Sciences
MIT Media Lab and McGovern Institute
Cambridge, Massachusetts
"Optical Tools for Analyzing and Repairing Biological Systems"
Drexel Prize in Immunology
Dan Barouch, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Medicine
Director, Center for Virology and Vaccine Research
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
"A Tale of Two Viruses: HIV and Zika"
Drexel Prize in Infectious Disease
Kevin Marsh, PhD
Professor of Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Medicine
University of Oxford
Oxford,
United Kingdom
Senior Advisor, African Academy of Sciences
"Malaria – Always With Us?"
Wednesday, November 15, 2017
Drexel Prize in Cancer Biology
Richard Hynes, PhD, FRS
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Daniel K. Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research
Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research
MIT
Cambridge, Massachusetts
"Cancer Cells Need Lots of Help to Complete Metastasis"
Thursday, November 16, 2017
Drexel's Hilary Koprowski Prize in Neurovirology
Lynn Pulliam, PhD
Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine
UCSF School of Medicine
San Francisco, California
"Tiny Bubbles and Neurovirology"
Special Lecture: Drexel Prize in Translational Medicine
Peter Palese, PhD
Professor and Chair, Department of Microbiology
Professor, Department of Medicine, Infectious Disease
Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai University
New York, New York
"Universal Influenza Virus Vaccine"
For information, call 215.762.7598 or email Betty Condran at bjc42@drexel.edu.
Symposium Highlights
- "Synthetic Lethal Approaches to Cancer Therapy"
Drexel Prize in Cancer Biology Lecture: Alan Ashworth, PhD, FRS
- "The Molecular Basis for a Future HIV Cure: The Ins and Outs of HIV Latency"
Drexel Prize in Translational Medicine Lecture: Jonathan Karn, PhD
- "HIV infection and Mucosal Immunity: Siege and Defense"
Drexel Prize in Immunology Lecture: Satya Dandekar, PhD
- "Selectively Non-selective Inhibition of Innate Immunity: Treatment for End Organ Diseases of Infectious and Non-infectious Etiologies"
Drexel's Hilary Koprowski Prize in Neurovirology Lecture: Harris A. Gelbard, MD, PhD
- "Next Generation Sequencing, Climate, and Cholera"
Drexel Prize in Infectious Disease Lecture: Rita Colwell, PhD
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Symposium Highlights
- "Blocking Interleukin-1-Mediated Inflammation: From Basic Biology to Clinical Benefits"
Immunology, Inflammation, and Autoimmunity | Drexel Prize in Immunology Lecture
- "The Human Microbiome in Health and Disease"
Microbial Pathogenesis and Vaccines | Drexel Prize in Infectious Disease Lecture
- "Cancer Metabolism Comes of Age"
Cancer Biology and Neoplastic Disease | Drexel Prize in Cancer Biology Lecture
- "Translational Research in Brain and Spinal Cord Injury: Accomplishments and Future Directions"
Spinal Cord and Traumatic Brain Injury | Drexel Prize in Translational Medicine Lecture
- "Varicella zoster Virus and Giant Cell Arteritis"
HIV CNS Disease, Reservoirs, and Eradication | Drexel's Hilary Koprowski Prize in Neurovirology Lecture
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Symposium Highlights
- "MYC: Targeting Metabolism in Cancer"
Chi Van Dang, MD, PhD
- "T Cell Memory and Exhaustion"
Rafi Ahmed, PhD | Drexel Prize in Immunology
- "Small Game Hunting"
W. Ian Lipkin, MD | Drexel Prize in Translational Medicine
- "A Worm's Tale: RNA Memories and Secrets of Inheritance and Immortality"
Craig Mello, PhD | Drexel Prize in Infectious Disease
- "SIV model of HIV CNS disease: Macrophages as latent viral reservoirs"
Janice Clements, PhD | Hilary Koprowski Memorial Lecture in Neurovirology
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Symposium Highlights
- "The rotavirus vaccine: From bench to bedside"
Paul Offit, MD | Drexel Prize in Translational Research
- "A view to a kill: Molecular and cellular interactions in pathogenesis"
John Mekalanos, PhD | Drexel Prize in Infectious Disease
- "How mammals sense infection"
Nobel Laureate Bruce Beutler, MD | Drexel Prize in Immunology
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