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Auditorium Balcony C

   
1:00 pm Iron Biology at NIDDK – A Program that Anticipated NIH-Roadmap Themes
Josephine Briggs, MD, Director, Div. of Kidney, Urologic & Hematologic Diseases
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
 
Session I:     Pathways to Discovery:  Building Blocks, Pathways and Networks
   
1:05 pm Molecular Structure in Iron Biology:  Ferritin Protein, DNA and mRNA
Elizabeth Theil, PhD     Chairperson
Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute & University of California, Berkeley, California
   
1:30 pm Moving Iron In, Out and Through Cells
Jerry Kaplan, PhD,  University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah
   
1:55 pm The Epidemiology of HFE Hemochromatosis
Ernest Beutler, MD, PhD, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California
   
2:20 pm BREAK
   
Session II:    Reengineering Clinical Research: Translational Medicine
   
2:35 pm Biological Iron Transport and Storage: Implications for Iron Chelation
Kenneth Raymond, PhD, University of California, Berkeley, California
   
3:00 pm A Search for Clinically Effective Iron Chelators
Raymond Bergeron, PhD, University of Florida Health Science Center
Gainesville, Florida
   
3:25 pm Noninvasive Measurement of Body Iron:  Dawn of a New Era
Gary Brittenham, MD, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons
New York, New York
   
3:50 pm Conclusions
   
4:00 pm Adjourn to Conference Room A
A Reception to honor the distinguished career of David Badman, PhD, upon his retirement.
   

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