Celebrating the Life and Science of Ed Rall & Jack Robbins - February 13, 2009
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AGENDA

 
7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast
   

Welcome

8:30 a.m. – 8:40 a.m. NIDDK
Griffin P. Rodgers, M.D., M.A.C.P., Director, NIDDK
8:40 a.m. – 8:50 a.m. National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Michael Gottesman, M.D.
8:50 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences (FAES)
Henry Metzger, M.D.
   

Scientific Program I

Session 1 Chair:   Bruce Weintraub, M.D., Trophogen, Inc.
9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Iodothyronine Deiodinases, Sonic Hedgehog, and Basal Cell Carcinoma
P. Reed Larsen, M.D., Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Molecular Mechanisms of Thyroid Carcinogenesis
Giancarlo Vecchio, M.D., University of Naples Federico II, Italy
10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Thyroid Hormone Transport, Thyroid Hormone Receptors, and Thyroid Carcinogenesis
Sheue-Yann Cheng, Ph.D., National Cancer Institute
10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Break
   
Session 2 Chair:  Jan Wolff, M.D., Ph.D., NIDDK
11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. From Compound X to Thyroid Hormone Action
Dr. Jamshed Tata, Ph.D., National Institute for Medical Research, United Kingdom
11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Development/Evolution and Diseases:  The Thyroid Gland Model
Roberto Di Lauro, M.D., Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
12:00 p.m. – 12:30 p.m. Low Molecular Weight Ligands for the Human TSH Receptor with Therapeutic Potential
Marvin Gershengorn, M.D., NIDDK
12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Lunch Buffet (in foyer)
   

Scientific Program II

Session 3 Chair:  Jesse Roth, M.D., F.A.C.P.
2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Immunotoxins, Receptors, and CEB
Ira Pastan, M.D., National Cancer Institute
2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Innate Immunity and the Toll-like Receptors
David Davies, Ph.D., NIDDK
3:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Break
   
Session 4 Chair:  Marshall Nirenberg, Ph.D., National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Tracking the Metabolic Syndrome to its Molecular Origins
C. Ronald Kahn, M.D., Joslin Diabetes Center and Harvard Medical School
4:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Endocrine Neoplasia, Leukemia, and Chromatin Modification: Bedside to Bench
Allen M. Spiegel, M.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine
4:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Closing Remarks, Adjournment
Phillip Gorden, M.D., NIDDK
6:30 p.m. Dinner at Tragara Restaurant (Bethesda, MD). All attendees are invited, cost is $50/person.
   
 
Celebrating the Life and Science of Ed Rall & Jack Robbins - February 13, 2009
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