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2009 Scientific Meeting
Each year, Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure hosts a scientific meeting to give researchers, investors, policy leaders, and industry leaders the chance to discuss progress in brain cancer research. The meeting serves as a catalyst for innovation and allows scientists to form collaborations with biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies that can drive discoveries from lab to the clinic.
2009 Annual Scientific Meeting
Cavallo Point - Sausalito, CA
Steve Case, Chairman, Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure
Conversation with Anna Barker, Ph.D. Deputy Director, NCI and Max Wallace, CEO, Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure
9:30 – 10:30am
Thoughts On How We Might Best Go Forward From Here
Ron DePinho, M.D. - Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Tim Cloughesy - Director of the Neuro-Oncology Program and Clinical Professor at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
10:45 – 12:15pm
The View From Corporate Drug Discoverers
Ira Mellman, Ph.D. – Vice President, Research Oncology, Genentech
Georg Terstappen, Ph.D. - Vice President, Discovery
Research, Siena Biotech
Rob Macleod, Ph.D. - Executive Director Discovery
Biology, Isis Pharmaceuticals
Diagnostics And Biomarkers – New Developments
Jim Heath, Ph.D. - Professor of Chemistry, Caltech; Professor of Molecular & Medical Pharmacology, UCLA; and Director of the National Cancer Institutes NSB Cancer Center
Qiang Tian, Ph.D. - Senior Research Scientist and Stem Cell Group Leader, Institute for Systems Biology
2:30 - 3:00pm
A Clinician's View - Turn Discoveries Into Personalized Treatments
Greg Foltz, M.D. - Director of the Center for Advanced Brain Tumor Treatment at the Neuroscience Institute of
the Swedish Medical Center
Air game – Two Pass Plays
Harry Gruber, M.D. - CEO, Tocagen, Inc.
Jim Olson, M.D., Ph.D. - Principal Investigator & Associate Member, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Different Looks At Cells That Promote Brain Tumor Progression
Harley Kornblum, M.D., Ph.D. - Founding Director of the Neural Stem Cell Research Center and professor, Departments of Molecular & Medical Pharmacology, Pediatrics and Psychiatry at UCLA
Brent Reynolds, Ph.D. - Associate Professor of Surgery, Director of Adult Stem Cell Engineering and Therapeutic Core, McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida
Jeremy Rich, M.D. - Chair, Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic
Lee Rubin, Ph.D. - Director of Translational Research, Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology
Dennis Steindler, Ph.D. - Professor of Neuroscience, Director of McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida
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