Thursday, April 9 |
8:00 a.m. |
Conference Registration
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9:00 a.m. |
Welcome
Arthur S. Levine, MD
Senior Vice Chancellor for the Health Sciences
John and Gertrude Petersen Dean, School of Medicine
Professor of Medicine and Molecular Genetics
University of Pittsburgh
Bai Lu, PhD
Professor and Executive Vice Dean, School of Medicine
Tsinghua University
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9:30 a.m. |
SESSION 1—DRUG DISCOVERY
Moderator: Mark E. Schurdak, PhD
D. Lansing Taylor, PhD
Implementation of Quantitative Systems Pharmacology for Drug Discovery and Development
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10:00 a.m. |
Yanan Du, PhD
3D Microtissues for Upgrading Cell-Based High-Throughput Drug Testing to 3D Using Bench-Top Equipment
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10:30 a.m. |
Q&A
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10:45 a.m.
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Refreshment Break
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11:00 a.m. |
SESSION 2—EPIGENETICS
Moderator: Dennis Kostka, PhD
Haitao Li, PhD
Gripping Histone Acetylation with YEATS Domain
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11:30 a.m. |
Roderick O’Sullivan, PhD
Stuck on Repeat: Platforms To Study Repetitive DNA at Chromosome Ends
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12:00 noon |
Q&A
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12:15 p.m. |
Lunch Buffet
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1:00 p.m. |
Tsinghua Student Poster Session
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2:30 p.m. |
SESSION 3—STEM CELLS
Moderator: Jeremy Berg, PhD
Lei Yang, PhD
Pluripotent Stem Cells and the Heart: What Can We Do?
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3:00 p.m. |
Xiaohua Shen, PhD
Study of IncRNA Functions in Stem Cell and Gene Regulation
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3:30 p.m. |
Q&A
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3:45 p.m. |
Refreshment Break
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4:00 p.m.
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SESSION 4—PURSUING NEW DIRECTIONS AT TSINGHUA AND PITT
Moderator: Margaret C. McDonald, PhD, MFA
Bai Lu, PhD
Recent Developments at Tsinghua University School of Medicine
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4:30 p.m. |
Gregory Cooper, MD, PhD
Big Data to Knowledge: The Center for Causal Discovery
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5:00 p.m. |
Q&A
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5:15 p.m. |
Adjournment |
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Friday, April 10 |
8:30 a.m. |
Conference Registration
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9:00 a.m. |
SESSION 5—MEDICAL DEVICES
Moderator: Robert L. Kormos, MD
William R. Wagner, PhD
Designing Biomaterials To Interrupt Pathological Tissue Remodeling Processes |
9:30 a.m. |
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10:00 a.m. |
Q&A
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10:15 a.m. |
Refreshment Break
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10:30 a.m. |
SESSION 6—NEUROSCIENCE
Moderator: Elizabeth Tyler-Kabara, MD, PhD
Wei Wang, MD, PhD
Clinical Neuroprosthetics Studies for Improving Quality of Life
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11:00 a.m. |
Bo Hong, PhD
Cortical Processing of Chinese Phonemes and Tones
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11:30 a.m. |
Q&A
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11:45 a.m. |
Concluding Remarks
Bai Lu, PhD
Arthur S. Levine, MD
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