The Biology Gap Panel takes place at 10 a.m.Tuesday from the “Innovation in Healthcare Symposium.” Find the webcast here.
Meeting Number: 646 750 825
Meeting Password: innovation
This panel will discuss opportunities to improve the productivity of biomedical research and its translation to meaningful improvements in patient care. The panel will discuss the issues behind the declining productivity of research efforts, the contribution of different fields of research, the role of technology, and methods to improve translational medicine.
•Peter Sorger, Ph.D.
Professor of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School
MIT Department of Biological Engineering & Center for Cancer Research
•Janet Woodcock, M.D.
Director, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
Food and Drug Administration
•Tawanda Gumbo, M.D.
Associate Professor, Southwestern Medical School
•Gustavo Stolovitzky, Ph.D.
Manager, Functional Genomics and Systems Biology
IBM Computational Biology Center
•Anand R. Asthagiri
Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering at Northeastern University
•Gavin MacBeath, Ph.D.
Senior Director, Head of Translational Research, Merrimack Pharmaceuticals
Lecturer in the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School