Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

Topics in Molecular Medicine

Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

Schedule

Fall, 2013

All classes are held on Wednesdays (unless noted) from 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm in room 1001 BRB

Class Date

Faculty Preceptor

Title

Student 1

Student 2

Student 3

Wednesday, Sept. 4

Roger Greenberg

"Targeting Homologous Recombination Deficiency in Hereditary Cancers"

 

 

 

Wednesday, Sept. 11

Aimee Payne

"RDEB: Gene therapy and beyond"

 

 

 

Friday, Sept. 20

Nancy Spinner and Ian Krantz

"New diagnostic platforms (exome-genome sequencing) for diagnosing and understanding disease"

 

 

 

Wednesday, Sept. 25

Robert Vonderheide

"The road to personalized cancer vaccines"

 

 

 

Wednesday, Oct. 2

Mitch Lazar

"A newly discovered mitochondrial pyruvate transporter in metabolic disease"

 

 

 

Wednesday, Oct. 9

Brad Johnson

"Cell senescence and age-related disease"

 

 

 

Monday, Oct.  14

Mark Kahn

"Peripartum cardiomyopathy: An angiogenic disease of the heart"

 

 

 

Wednesday, Oct. 23

Skip Brass and Scott Diamond

"Antiplatelet therapy to prevent heart attacks and strokes: When is enough enough and how do you know?"

 

 

 

Wednesday , Oct. 30

Joshua Friedman

"The impact of genomics on inflammatory bowel disease"

 

 

 

Wednesday, Nov. 6

George Shaw

"Protection and cure of invading RNA viral pathogens: The Hepatitis C virus paradigm"

 

 

 

Wednesday, Nov. 13

Jonathan Maltzman

"Rationally designed immunosuppression"

 

 

 

Wednesday, Nov. 20

Jim Hoxie

"HIV reservoirs and the Berlin patient"

 

 

 

Wednesday, Dec. 4

Gary Wu

"Diet, the Gut Microbiota, and Inflammatory Bowel Disease"

 

 

 

Wednesday, Dec. 11

Virginia Lee

"Alzheimer's disease therapy: The mystery of vanishing plaques"

 

 

 

Monday, Dec. 16

Dennis Kolson

"Microbial translocation and chronic immune activation in HIV neuropathogenesis"

 

 

 

• Last updated: 07/30/2013