CNDR 2010 Marian S. Ware Research Retreat

October 15, 2010
8:15am - 5:00pm
Biomedical Research Building 2/3Auditorium
421 Curie Boulevard
University of Pennsylvania

This year CNDR's Marian S. Ware Research Retreat focused on "Academic Neurodegenerative Disease Drug Discovery: Programs and Partnerships."

To view select streaming video of the day's presentations, visit http://tinyurl.com/2b53xoo or scroll down to click on each talk to connect with the streaming video. Please note not all talks are available.

Event Information, Registration, Parking and Directions

To register to attend the retreat and/or present a poster, please click here.

For directions to Biomedical Research Building or BRB 2/3, click here. Please note that exit 346a, the South Street exit from the Schuylkill Expressway, is closed for bridge repair. Information on parking is provided at the above link. You can also access parking information at http://www.business-services.upenn.edu/parking/index.html.

Agenda

The draft agenda for the day's proceedings is as follows:

8:00-8:30am	Breakfast Buffet in the Auditorium Lobby (BRB 2/3)
8:30-8:45am	Opening Remarks - Virginia M.-Y. Lee, PhD, MBA University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Director, Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research “The Challenges Ahead for Neurodegenerative Disease Drug Discovery”
8:45-9:20am	Speaker - Kurt Brunden, PhD University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Director, Penn CNDR Drug Discovery Program Talk: “Tau, and Aβ Focused Drug Discovery Programs at the Penn Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research (CNDR)”
9:20-9:55am	Speaker - Kelvin Luk, PhD University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Research Associate, Penn CNDR Drug Discovery Program Talk: “Alpha-synuclein Focused Drug Discovery Programs at the Penn CNDR”
9:55-10:30am	Speaker - Adrian J. Ivinson, PhD Director, the Harvard NeuroDiscovery Center Talk: "A Collaborative Approach to Neurodegenerative Diseases Drug Discovery”
10:30am	BREAK
11:00-11:35am	Speaker - Garret A. FitzGerald, MD University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Director, Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics Talk: “Fostering Translational Therapeutics Through the Penn ClinicalTranslational Science Award"
11:35am-12:10pm	Speaker - Franz Hefti, PhD Chief Scientific Officer, Avid Radiopharmaceuticals, Inc. Talk: "Biotech & Academic Partnerships - Lessons From ß-Amyloid Imaging Ligands”
12:10pm-1:45pm	Lunch and Visit Posters
1:45pm-2:20pm	Speaker - Richard Cowburn, PhD Principal Scientist and Head of the Neurology Therapeutic Target Team, AstraZeneca, Inc. Talk: "Charting New Directions for Alzheimer Drug Discovery at AstraZeneca”
2:20pm-2:55pm	Speaker - Steven L. Roberds, PhD Pfizer, Inc. Associate Research Fellow, Worldwide Research and Development Talk: “Pfizer’s Indications Discovery Unit: A Virtual Research Unit Employing An Innovative Industry-Academia Paradigm”
2:55pm-3:30pm	Speaker - Sohini Chowdhury Vice President for Research Programs, The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Disease Research Talk:“The Future of Foundation Partnerships to Accelerate Parkinson’s Disease Drug Discovery”
3:30pm-4:05pm	Speaker - Michael J. Cleare, PhD University of Pennsylvania Associate Vice Provost for Research and Director of Technology Transfer Talk: “New Strategies for Academic-Pharma Partnerships”
4:05pm-4:45pm	Closing Remarks/Refreshments/Best Poster Award - Virginia M.-Y. Lee, PhD

Questions

Questions? Please call 215-662-4708.

Sponsored by the Training Program in Age-Related Neurodegenerative Diseases, NIH/NIA AG 00255, the Penn Alzheimer’s Disease Core Center (AG 10124) and the Institute on Aging.

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

CNDR 2010 Marian S. Ware Research Retreat

October 15, 2010 8:15am - 5:00pm Biomedical Research Building 2/3Auditorium 421 Curie Boulevard University of Pennsylvania

Event Information, Registration, Parking and Directions

Agenda

Questions

October 15, 2010
8:15am - 5:00pm
Biomedical Research Building 2/3Auditorium
421 Curie Boulevard
University of Pennsylvania