Case Studies in Translational Research

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Welcome to CSTR

Fall, 2008

General guidelines for your CSTR presentation:

The goal is to learn about topics that are “outside of the box”, like running a clinical trial, starting a company, patenting a result etc.  Some sessions can be approached like TiMM—that is, one student covers a clinical review and the other student summarizes a specific scientific finding, drug, etc.  Other sessions may require a different strategy, depending on the material and preceptor.  Plan this strategy among yourselves and your preceptor.  Feel free to discuss with Mitch, Skip or Emma.

Most sessions include two students.  You and the other member(s) of your group should plan to meet as a group with your preceptor twice, the first time at least two weeks before the presentation. For preceptors who are offsite, you may need to schedule conference calls rather than meeting face to face.  In this case, make sure that you email your preceptor(s) any presentations, outlines in advance.  Although each member of the group is responsible for covering a specific part of the topic, you should work as a team and coordinate your presentations.

Your formal presentations should be concise and provide a basic framework for discussion.  Assume that your classmates have read the material, but review the most important points.  Summarize the reading material and show important data, but please do not review papers figure by figure, which will surely put you and your classmates to sleep!  The total time for formal presentation should be about 30 minutes—15 minutes per student.  This will leave the majority of time for informal discussion-- plan to guide, but not dominate this.  You may want to pose some questions for the class and preceptor.  You can review these questions with your preceptor in advance to gain some insight into how he/she would like you to direct the discussion.

Be creative!  Have fun!

CSTR Presentations08

Class Date

Faculty Preceptor

Title

Student 1

Student 2

Mon, Sept. 8

1412 BRB II/III

Jennifer Lagenberger

Intellectual Property

Mon., Sept. 15

104 Stellar-Chance

Rosemary Mazanet

Application of Intellectual Property to drug development.

Mon, Sept. 22

104 Stellar-Chance

Jordan Orange

Cytokine therapy in disease

   

Tues, Sept. 30

104 Stellar-Chance

Jean Bennett

Gene therapy for congenital blindness

 

 

Tues, Oct. 7

John Morgan

Wood Room

Kathy High

Gene Transfer for Hemophilia

   

Mon, Oct. 13

1412 BRB II/III

Don Siegel

Targeted drug delivery to human skin using human single-chain antibody fragments

   

Mon, Oct. 20

104 Stellar-Chance

Carl June

Genetically engineered lymphocytes for HIV and Cancer Therapy: Translational Take Home Lessons

   

Mon, Oct 27

104 Stellar-Chance

Barbara Weber &

Tal Zaks

EGFR inhibitors in cancer therapy: biological, study design, and regulatory implications.

   

Tues, Nov. 4

1412 BRB II/III

Brian Litt

Implantable Devices to Treat Epilepsy

   

Tues, Nov. 11

301 BRB II/III

Paul Offit

The Growing Threat of America's Anti-Vaccine Movement

   

Mon, Nov. 17

1412 BRB II/III

Robert Levy

Developing novel heart valve replacements: Clinical, laboratory & corporate mechanisms.

 

 

Mon, Nov. 24

1412 BRB II/III

Dan Rader

Genetics of lipids and translation to therapeutics

 

 

Mon, Dec. 1

1412 BRB II/III

Robert Vonderheide

Telomerase-based vaccines for cancer

   

 

• Last updated: 06/20/2008