Penn Medicine MD-PhD Medical Scientist Training Program - Monthly Event Series|| Perelman School of Medicine || University of Pennsylvania

combined degree Monthly Program Events 2012 - 2013

-In addition to events on this page, check out the events of the Women MD-PhD Student Association

Please mark your calendars. All events are at 5:00 pm and followed by a reception, which ends at 7:00 pm.

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September 12 JMB Reunion	“Planning for the Future” series event; Panel discussion on choosing lab rotations and a thesis mentor
October 18 JMB Reunion	Grand Rounds: Nick Iacobelli and Utpal Sandesara Becoming a Patient: A Cross-Cultural Examination of Diagnosis, Therapy, and Biological Citizenship
November 14 CRB Austrian Auditorium	Grand Rounds: Rose Li, Eva Klinman and Lucie Guo The H Factor: What can complement do for YOU (and your vision!)
December 4 BRB Auditorium	“Planning for the Future” series event: Making Sense of the Science: A Workshop on Effective Scientific Writing Judith A. Swan, Ph.D., Associate Director for Writing in Science and Engineering, Princeton Writing Program
January 7 CRB Austrian Auditorium	Student invited Penn faculty speaker Ralph L. Brinster, VMD, PhD Richard King Mellon Professor of Reproductive Physiology The Mammalian Germline and The Program of Life
February 13 CRB Austrian Auditorium	Grand Rounds: Jeffrey Carey, Erika Lin-Hendel and Robyn Allen Epilepsy: Innovation in Detection and Therapy
March 20 CRB Austrian Auditorium	Grand Rounds: Basil Bakir, Eric Mukherjee and Sara Small Metastasis Before Cancer? Pancreatic Cancer as a Model for Understanding Tumor Dissemination
April 4 JMB Reunion	“Planning for the Future” series event; Panel discussion on residency choices
May 6 CRB Austrian Auditorium	Student invited Guest Speaker, Beau Ances, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neurology at Wash U What Are You Going to Do When You Grow Up?: Experiences From Clinical Translational Research and Graduating MD-PhD student reception

MD-PhD Monthly Program Events 2011 - 2012

Please mark your calendars. All events are at 5:00 pm and followed by a reception, which ends at 7:00 pm

September 22 Reunion Hall	“Planning for the Future” series event; Panel discussion on choosing lab rotations and a thesis mentor (required for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd years - everyone else is welcome to attend and chime in!)
October 17 CRB Austrian Auditorium	Grand Rounds: Apple Long and Jess Shay Immunotherapy in the Treatment of Late Stage Pancreatic Cancer
November 21 BRB Auditorium	Grand Rounds: Dania Daye and Jiyeon Kim Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells in chronic lymphoid leukemia (CLL)
January 19 BRB Auditorium	Grand Rounds: Lauren Banks and Chris Nabel Adenosine homeostasis and vascular calcification: Lessons from a rare genetic disease
January 25 BRB Auditorium	Student invited Penn faculty speaker Dr. Carl June, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Synthetic biology with engineered T cells
February 15 Reunion Hall	“Planning for the Future” series event “Traversing the bridge years” presentation by Skip
March 22 Reunion Hall	Grand Rounds: Nora Becker and Ari Friedman Health Reform: The Economics Behind the Individual Mandate
April 16 BRB Auditorium	Grand Rounds: Teddy Drivas, Rafi Winograd and Ting Yang Neutralizing antibodies to prevent HIV infection
May 9 BRB Auditorium	Student Invited Guest Speaker, Daniel H. Geschwind, MD, PhD Professor, Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry, Gordon and Virginia MacDonald Distinguished Chair in Human Genetics Autism: A model for integration of genetics and neurobiology in neurodevelopmental disorders

MD-PhD Monthly Program Events 2010 - 2011

Please mark your calendars. All events are at 5:00 pm and followed by a reception, which ends at 7:00 pm

September 20 CRB Austrian Auditorium	“Planning for the Future” series event; Panel discussion on choosing lab rotations and a thesis mentor (required for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd years - everyone else is welcome to attend and chime in!)
October 18 BRB Auditorium	Grand Rounds: Henry Bergquist and Dave Rawnsley Modeling cardiac disease with patient-specific induced pluripotent stem cells
November 16 BRB Auditorium	Grand Rounds: Brittany Gregory and Abby Shearin Evidence for glutamate receptor involvement in human and canine compulsive disorders
December 8 CRB Austrian Auditorium	Student invited Penn faculty speaker Dr. Doug Wallace, Michael and Charles Barnett Endowed Chair of Pediatric Mitochondrial Medicine and Metabolic Disease Director, Center of Mitochondrial and Epigenomic Medicine at CHOP Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania "Energyomics-Energenomics: A Mitochondrial Etiology of Complex Diseases”
January 19 BRB Auditorium	Grand Rounds: Omar Butt and Kevan Salimian Discovering the truth about antibody-mediated limbic encephalitis
February 24 CRB Auditorium	Residency Considerations for Future Physician Scientists Panel (Planning for the future series event)
March 15 BRB Auditorium	Grand Rounds: Matt LeBeouf and Jie Xu Remodeling the Disease Process: The use of HDAC Inhibitors to treat Cutaneous T-cell Lymphoma and beyond
April 11 BRB Auditorium	Grand Rounds:Lisa Korn and Brittany Weber Notching victories against leukemia: notch inhibition in T-ALL treatment
May 18 CRB Auditorium	Student Invited Guest Speaker, Andrew I. Schafer, MD, Chairman and Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell

MD-PhD Monthly Program Events 2009 - 2010

Please mark your calendars. All events are at 5:00 pm and followed by a reception, which ends at 7:00 pm

September 22 CRB Austrian Auditorium	Guest Speaker: Elizabeth Nabel, MD Director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health "Genomic Medicine: Cardiovascular Insights from a Premature Aging Syndrome" …and a Physician-Scientist’s View of the NIH
October 19 BRB Auditorium	Grand Rounds: Marcus Goncalves and Nik Singh Taking the snooze button off your clock: Circadian rhythms and sleep
November 12 Class of '62 Auditorium	Grand Rounds: Eric Allenspach and Tao Zou Drug Development: How to Predict a Storm
January 21 BRB Auditorium	Grand Rounds: Daniel Abravanel and Scott Gordon Stopping traffic: Targeting integrins in inflammatory bowel disease
February 17 BRB Auditorium	Grand Rounds: Aaron Stonestrom and Natalie Wolkow Cilia genetics: a hairy situation
February 24 CRB Austrian Auditorium	Student invited Penn faculty talk Josep Dalmau, MD, PhD Professor of Neurology and Director of the Neuro-oncology Lab of the Abramson Cancer Center "Synaptic autoimmunity and the new disorders of memory, behavior, cognition, and psychosis"
April 13 BRB Auditorium	Grand Rounds: Mike Gandal and Armen Moughamian Reducing tuber burden: mTOwaRds new therapies for intractable epilepsy
April 27 252 BRB	Junior Faculty Panel Discussion
May 13 BRB Auditorium	Student Invited Guest Speaker Pat Brown, MD, PhD Professor of Biochemistry at Stanford