Topics in Molecular Medicine

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Schedule

Fall, 2008

All classes are held on Wednesdays in Room 253 BRB II/III unless noted

Class Date

Faculty Preceptor

Title

Student 1

Student 2

Student 3

Sept. 3

Bob Doms

“Innate immunity to HIV and other viruses”

Andrew Stern

Yang Li

Apple Long

Sept. 10

Mitch Lazar

“Low Carb Diets and Obesity”

Teddy Drivas
Mark Ferreira
Jon Brestoff

Sept. 17

Josh Dunaief

“Anti-VEGF therapy for age-related macular degeneration: an eye-opening victory for bench-to-bedside.”

Yafeng Li
Chuka Didigu
Nabil Sayed

Sept. 24

Doris Stoffers

“Cell based therapies for type 1 diabetes”

Sesh Sundararaman
Ryan Moy
Ting-Lin Yang

Oct. 1

Ed Cooper

“Epilepsy and the initiation of neuronal action potentials”

Nabil Sayed
Sheena Baratono

Monday
Oct. 6

Mike Beers

“Emerging Concepts in the Pathogenesis of COPD”

Chris Nabel
Apple Long
Yin Li

Oct. 22

Roger Greenberg
“New Chemotherapeutic Strategies to Treat Lung Cancer”
Lauren Banks
Rafi Winograd
Jessica Shay

Oct. 29

Virginia Lee

“NSAIDs for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease”

Ting-Lin Yang
Yang Li
Andrew Stern

Nov. 5

Mark Kahn

"Antiangiogenic tumor therapies"

Jessica Shay
Chris Thom
Teddy Drivas

Nov. 12

Terri Laufer

“GOUT and the Inflammasome”

Brian Finkelman
Ryan Moy
Sesh Sundararaman
Nov. 19

 

No Class

 

 

 

Monday
Nov. 24

Bob Vonderheide

“Therapeutic implications of tumor associated antigens”

Matt Fishman
Mudit Gupta
Rafi Winograd

Monday
Dec. 1

George Cotsarelis

"A bald look at epithelial stem cells"

Chris Thom
Sheena Baratono
Jon Brestoff

Dec. 3

Jon Maltzman

" Improving immunosuppression through rational design"

Yin Li
Chuka Didigu
Yafeng Li

Dec. 10

Brad Johnson

“Role of telomerase in pulmonary fibrosis”

Mudit Gupta
Mark Ferreira
Lauren Banks

Monday
Dec. 15

Nancy Spinner/  Ian Krantz

“Genomic Variation--The Pathogenic and the Benign”

Chris Nabel
Matt Fishman
Brian Finkelman

 

• Last updated: 08/26/2008