University of Illinois College of Medicine
Department of Pharmacology
Visiting Professor Seminar Series
Spring 2011
Wednesdays at 12:00 Noon, 1020 COMRB |
Date |
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February 9 |
John Hartwig, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Division of Translational Medicine
Brigham & Women’s Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA |
"What Filamin A Null Platelets are Trying to Tell Us!" |
February 16
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Mortimer Poncz, MD
Division Chief
Pediatric Hematology
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA |
"Making & Stopping Platelet Production" |
February 23
*Canceled* |
Kalpana Merchant, PhD
CSO, Translational Science
Eli Lilly and Company
Indianapolis, IN |
"Translational Science: What is it and How Can Improve Human Health?" |
March 2 |
John K. Westwick, PhD
President and CEO
Odyssey Thera, Inc.
San Ramon, CA |
"High Context Drug Discovery" |
March 9
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Balaraman Kalyanaraman, PhD
Quadracci Professor and
Chairman and Professor of Biophysics
Director, Free Radical Research Center
Department of Biophysics
Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI |
"Targeted Antioxidants and Nitroxides in Breast Cancer Biology, Treatment and Imaging" |
March 16 |
Ed Morrisey, PhD
Professor of Medicine and Cell and Developmental Biology
Scientific Director, Penn Institute for Regenerative Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA |
"Post-Transcriptional Regulation of Lung Endoderm Development and Regeneration" |
March 23 |
Kristin Baldwin, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Cell Biology
The Scripps Research Institute
La Jolla CA |
"Diversity in Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Lines and Neurons: A Role for Stochastic Mechanisms" |
March 30 |
David Brindley, PhD
Professor
Department of Biochemistry
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada |
"Mechanisms for the Production of Chemo-resistance by Circulating Autotaxin and Lysophosphatidate in Breast Cancer" |
April 6 |
R Mark Henkelman, PhD
Department of Medical Biophysics
Mouse Imaging Centre
Hospital for Sick Children
Toronto Centre for Phenogenomics |
"Imaging for Mouse Phenotyping" |
April 20
**BRISTOW LECTURE**
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Shaun R. Coughlin, MD, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
Cardiovascular Research Institute
San Francisco, CA |
"Protease-activated Receptors in Vascular Biology and Beyond"
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*Monday, May 2
Rm. 4175 COMRB |
David T. Eddington, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Bioengineering
College of Engineering
University of Illinois at Chicago |
“Microfluidic Solutions for Medicine and Biology” |
May 4
*Canceled*
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Kurt Stenmark, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Section Head, Critical Care Medicine
Director, Developmental Lung Biology and Cardiovascular Pulmonary Research Laboratories
University of Colorado Denver
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"Importance of the Vascular Stroma in Pulmonary Hypertension: Evidence from animal models and the human disease"
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May 18 |
J. Silvio Gutkind, PhD
Chief, Oral and Pharyngeal Cancer Branch, DIR
Chief, Cell Growth Regulation Section, and Molecular Carcinogenesis Unit
NIH/NIDCR
Bethesda, MD |
"From G proteins to mTOR: Translating Signaling Circuitries into Targeted Cancer Therapies"
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