Updated: February 23, 2022
2022
19th Annual CBC Symposium
Stress and Human Health: Diabetes
2021
18th Annual CBC Symposium
Immunology and Immunoengineering Response to COVID-19
G.R. Scott BUDINGER, MD ▸ More info
Dr. Budinger is the Ernest S. Bazley Professor of Airway Diseases, chief of the Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, and professor of Cell and Molecular Biology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Dr. Budinger is a leading investigator in lung disease and is internationally recognized for his research examining the mechanisms by which environmental stresses activate signaling pathways in resident lung cells that induce lung injury and fibrosis. His recent work aims to understand how these responses change with aging to increase the risk of acute and chronic lung disease.
Michael CAFFREY, PhD ▸ More info
Dr. Caffrey is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has been studying the entry mechanisms of viruses for over 20 years. Viruses which his lab studies, include Ebola, HIV, Influenza and Coronaviruses. In addition, they are interested in the development of novel antiviral therapies, diagnostics and characterization methods. His laboratory has expertise in biochemistry, structural biology and virology.
Alexis DEMONBREUN, PhD ▸ More info
Dr. Demonbreun is Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacology at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University. Her research expertise encompasses various aspects of basic and translational research with a focus on striated muscle injury and muscular dystrophies. Her work utilizes mouse models to study primary disease-causing mutations and also secondary mutations, modifiers, which act to change the basic disease phenotype.
George GEORGIOU, PhD ▸ More info
Dr. Georgiou is the Dula D. Cockrell Centennial Chair Chair Professor at UT Austin, Dep. of Chemical Engineering and Molecular Biosciences. He has authored >280 publications and is co-inventor of >140 issued and pending US patents, licensed to 29 pharma & biotech companies. Notably, he is co-inventor of 5 protein therapeutics that are approved or in clinical evaluation. His research is focused on: (i) the molecular level understanding of human adaptive immunity in infectious diseases and in autoimmunity; (ii) the discovery/preclinical development of protein therapeutics and (iii) the biology of Fc receptors and the engineering of therapeutic antibodies with improved effector functions. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering (2005), National Academy of Medicine (2011), National Academy of Inventors (2015) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2016).
Jennifer LAYDEN, MD, PhD ▸ More info
Dr. Layden, joined the US CDC in August 2020, and serves as the Deputy Director for the Office of Science. She additionally leads the Strategic Science Unit within the Agency’s COVID-19 response. Prior to joining the CDC, she was the Deputy Commissioner and Chief Medical Officer for the Chicago Department of Public Health, and prior to that served as the State Epidemiologist for the Illinois Department of Public Health. During this time, she led numerous public health responses, including CDPH’s COVID 19 response, and IDPH’s EVALI response. Dr Layden is clinically trained in infectious diseases and internal medicine and holds her doctorate degree in epidemiology. She has held academic appointments at both the University of Illinois at Chicago and Loyola University Chicago. She has authored over 80 scientific publications.
Sally MCFALL, PhD ▸ More info
Dr. McFall, Ph.D. is a cofounder and Chief Scientific Officer of Minute Molecular Diagnostics, Inc. (M2Dx). M2Dx has developed DASH, a field-deployable molecular diagnostic device that delivers actionable result in 15 minutes or less. Dr. McFall is also the Deputy Director of the Administrative Core and Director of the Technology Development/Refinement Core C-THAN. C-THAN was established in 2018 as part of the Point-of-Care Technologies Research Network created by National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering. Dr. McFall has extensive experience in technology development for low- and middle-income countries as the Director of Research of the Center for Innovation in Global Health Technologies (CIGHT) in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Northwestern University.
Bellur S. PRABHAKAR, PhD ▸ More info
Dr. Prabhakar is a Senior Associate Dean for Research, Associate Dean for Technological Innovation & Training and a Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology. He has worked throughout his career extensively in the areas of virology, viral immunology, immunopathology and autoimmune diseases.
Aaron RING, PhD ▸ More info
Dr. Ring, M.D., Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Immunobiology at the Yale School of Medicine. His research focuses on using directed evolution to create new pharmacologic tools and therapeutics against immune receptors as well as to “tune” immune cytokines and growth factors for defined activities. His laboratory has also developed new technologies to detect functional autoantibodies against the exoproteome. Aaron is a recipient of the NIH Director’s Early Independence Award, a Milstein Young Investigator Award from the International Cytokine and Interferon Society, and he was also named a Pew-Stewart Scholar and Robert T. McCluskey Yale Scholar.
Karla Fullner SATCHELL, PhD ▸ More info
Dr. Satchell earned her Ph.D. in Microbiology at the University of Washington and conducted post-doctoral studies at the University of Pittsburgh and at Harvard Medical School. Across all the areas of research, she has published more than 100 research articles. In recognition of her work, she was the recipient of a Burroughs Wellcome Investigators in Pathogenesis of Infectious Diseases Award in 2006. She has been elected as a fellow for the American Academy of Microbiology and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She is also active in teaching of graduate students and in 2016 was awarded the Driskill Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Melody SWARTZ, PhD ▸ More info
Dr. Swartz is the William B. Ogden Professor in the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago, where she holds a joint appointment in the Ben May Department for Cancer Research and is a member of the Committee on Immunology. She obtained her BS from Johns Hopkins and her PhD from MIT, both in chemical engineering, and carried out postdoctoral work at the Brigham & Women’s Hospital. She was an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Northwestern University before moving to the EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, where she eventually served as the Director of the Institute for Bioengineering.
2020
17th Annual CBC Symposium
Epigenetics & Disease
Shelley BERGER, PhD ▸ More info
Daniel S. Och University Professor; Director, Epigenetics Institute; Penn Integrated Knowledge Professor (PIK), The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Department of Cell and Developmental Biology; Biology; Genetics; Philadelphia, PA; Recipient of the HHMI Collaborative Innovator award, the Ellison Foundation Senior Scholar award, the Glenn Foundation award for Mechanisms in Aging and awards from the Stand Up To Cancer Foundation, the Kleberg Foundation, Sanofi, and Celgene. Dr. Berger received the Stanley N. Cohen award in 2016, the highest recognition for basic biomedical research at the Penn School of Medicine; the 2016 Penn Biomedical Postdoctoral Programs Distinguished Mentor Award and the 2017 Award for Faculty Mentoring Undergraduate Research. Dr. Berger is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences (18), National Academy of Medicine (12), and American Academy of Arts and Sciences (13).
Peggy GOODELL, PhD ▸ More info
Professor and Chair, Molecular and Cellular Biology; Vivian L. Smith Chaiir in Regenerative Medicine; Director, Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine Center (STaR), Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; Recipient of the Damashek Prize from the American Society of Hematology (2012), the Edith and Peter O’Donnell Award in Medicine from TAMEST (2011) and the Tobias Award from the International Society for Stem Cell Research (2020). Goodell is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and holds the Vivian L. Smith Chair in Regenerative Medicine; is Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Keystone Symposia and a member of their Board of Directors.
Chuan HE, PhD ▸ More info
John T. Wilson Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Chemistry, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Recipient of Arthur L. Kelly Faculty Prize for Exceptional Service in the Physical Sciences Division, University of Chicago (2020), ACS Chemical Biology Lectureship (2019), Paul Marks Prize in Cancer Research (2017), American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow (2015), Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award (2015), Mr. and Mrs. Sun Chan Memorial Award in Organic Chemistry (2012), American Chemical Society Akron Section Award (2010), Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry Early Career Award (2010), Burroughs Wellcome Fund Investigator in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease Award (2008), CACPA Distinguished Junior Faculty Award (2007), Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (2006), CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (2005), Cottrell Scholar by the Research Corporation (2005), Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation Young Investigator (2005) and Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2005).
Yuan HE, PhD ▸ More info
Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
Cigall KADOCH, PhD ▸ More info
Associate Professor, Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Affiliated Faculty, Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School; Institute Member and Epigenetics Program Co-Director, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Boston, MA; Recipient of the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, the Pew Scholar Award, the American Cancer Society Research Scholar Award, and, most recently, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Martin and Rose Wachtel Cancer Research Prize. Additionally, she was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list, MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35, Popular Science Brilliant 10, and Business Insider Top 30 Young Leaders in Biopharma.
Danny REINBERG, PhD ▸ More info
Terry and Mel Karmazin Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, New York University Langone School of Medicine at Smilow Research Center, Boston, MA; Recipient of the American Cancer Society Junior Faculty Research Award and Faculty Research Award, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HCIA Award; 2012) and Collaborative Innovation Award (CIA; 2008), NIH Clinical Center Merit Award (2004); Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2015), National Academy of Medicine (2013), American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2012); Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2015).
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2018
16th Annual CBC Symposium
A New Age of Structural Biology: Structure Meets Dynamics
Jingyi FEI, PhD ▸ More info
Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Chicago; Recipient of Searle Scholars and the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award.
André HOELZ, PhD ▸ More info
Professor of Chemistry, Investigator, Heritage Medical Research Institute Faculty; Scholar, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, California Institute of Technology; Recipient of the Albert Wyrick V Scholar Award of the V Foundation for Cancer Research (2010), the 54th Mallinckrodt Scholar Award of the Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Foundation (2011), the Kimmel Scholar Award of the Sidney Kimmel Foundation for Cancer Research (2012), and the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award of the Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation (2015).
Janet SMITH, PhD ▸ More info
Associate Institute Director, Research Professor and Center for Structural Biology Director, Life Sciences Institute; Margaret J. Hunter Collegiate Professor in the Life Sciences, Professor of Biological Chemistry, Medical School, Professor of Biophysics, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, University of Michigan.
Reza VAFABAKHSH, PhD ▸ More info
Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University.
Eric XU, PhD ▸ More info
Professor, Innovation and Integration Program Center for Cancer and Cell Biology, Van Andel Research Institute (VARI), Grand Rapids, MI; Primary Investigator and Distinguished Director, VARI-SIMM Research Center, Shanghai, China; Recipient of a Senior Investigator Award from American Asthma Foundation, a past DOD Prostate Cancer Idea Development Award, the 2016 Hans Neurath Award of Protein Society and the 2016 Wuxi Outstanding Achievement Award.
Xiaojing YANG, PhD ▸ More info
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago.
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2017
15th Annual CBC Symposium
Small Molecule Discovery
Karin BRINER, PhD ▸ More info
Vice President and Global Head, Global Discovery Chemistry (GDC), Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR), Cambridge, MA; Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the European Federation of Medicinal Chemistry.
Ray MOELLERING, PhD ▸ More info
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, The University of Chicago; Recipient of Dale F. Frey Award for Breakthrough Scientists from the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, the Pathway to Independence Award from the National Cancer Institute, the V Scholar Award from the V Foundation for Cancer Research and the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award.
Victoria RICHON, PhD ▸ More info
President and Chief Executive Officer, Ribon Therapeutics, Lexington, MA.
Brian SHOICHET, PhD ▸ More info
Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, School of Pharmacy, University of California, San Francisco.
Rick SILVERMAN, PhD ▸ More info
Professor, Departments of Chemistry, Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences, Northwestern University; Recipient of American Chemical Society Award for Creative Invention (2017), Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (2014), Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (2014), ICON Innovator Award of the iBIO Institute (2014), Northwestern University Trustee Medal for Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship (2014), Excellence in Medicinal Chemistry Prize of the Israel Chemical Society (2014), Centenary Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2013), Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2013), BMS-Edward E. Smissman Awardee of the American Chemical Society (2013), Sato Memorial International Awardee from the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan (2012), Fellow of the American Chemical Society (2011), E.B. Hershberg Awardee for Important Discoveries in Medicinally Active Substances from the American Chemical Society (2011), Perkin Medal of the American Section of the Society of Chemical Industry (2009), Medicinal Chemistry Hall of Fame of the American Chemical Society (2009), Arthur C. Cope Senior Scholar Awardee of the American Chemical Society (2003).
Gregory THATCHER, PhD ▸ More info
Professor, Department of Medicinal Chemistry & Pharmacognosy, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago; Founding director of UICentre.
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2016
14th Annual CBC Symposium
Genetics of Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders
Nancy Cox, PhD ▸ Bio
Director, Vanderbilt Genetics Institute Director, Division of Genetic Medicine; Mary Phillips Edmonds Gray Professor of Genetics,
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
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Nancy Cox, PhD ▸ Bio
Director, Vanderbilt Genetics Institute Director, Division of Genetic Medicine; Mary Phillips Edmonds Gray Professor of Genetics,
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
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Mark DALY, PhD ▸ Lab Link
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Chief, Analytic and Translational Unit, Center for Human Genetic Research, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital; Senior Associate Member, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; Recipient of the 2014 Curt Stern Award, presented by the American Society of Human Genetics for outstanding scientific achievements in human genetics
Daniel GESCHWIND, MD, PhD ▸ Lab Link
Gordon and Virginia Macdonald Distinguished Professor; Director, UCLA Center for Autism Research and Treatment (CART), University of California, Los Angeles; Recipient of Derek Denny-Brown Neurological Scholar Award from the American Neurological Association in 2004, the Scientific Service Award from Autism Speaks in 2007, the Ruane Prize for Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Research from the Brain and Behavior Foundation in 2012, the Taking on Tomorrow Innovation Award (Research/Scientific Breakthrough in Autism) from Boston Children’s Hospital in 2013 and is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies
Chunyu LIU, PhD ▸ Lab Link
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago
Peter PENZES, PhD ▸ Lab Link
Professor, Departments of Physiology, and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
Barbara STRANGER, PhD ▸ Lab Link
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Section of Genetic Medicine Core Member, Institute for Genomics and Systems Biology; Senior Fellow, Center for Data Intensive Science, The University of Chicago
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2015
13th Annual CBC Symposium
The Unseen Majority: Microbes in Health and Disease
Michael J. Federle, PhD ▸ Bio
Associate Professor, Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy, College of Pharmacy,
University of Illinois at Chicago
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Tatyana V. Golovkina, PhD ▸ Bio
Professor, Department of Microbiology, Committee on Immunology Committee on Microbiology,
The University of Chicago
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Robert A. Lamb, PhD, ScD ▸ Bio
John Evans Professor of Molecular Biology and Cell Biology, Chair, Department of Molecular Biosciences,
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
Northwestern University; Recipient of the Irma T. Hirschl Career Scientist Award, the Phoebe Weinstein Award for Creativity in Negative Strand Virus Research; an Established Investigator of the American Heart Association; recipient of two consecutive MERIT awards from the National Institutes of Health, a Bristol- Myers Squibb Infectious Diseases Unrestricted Five Year Research Grant, and the Wallace Rowe Award for Excellence in Virologic Research by the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease; Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology (1987), a Member of the National Academy of Sciences, USA (2003) and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2007); awarded a D.Sc. honoris causa by the University of Birmingham, UK (2010)
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Ruth Ley, PhD ▸ Bio
Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics,
Cornell University; Recipient of Fellowships from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, The Hartwell Foundation and the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation, the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, and the 2014 ISME Young Investigator Award
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Charles M. Rice, PhD ▸ Bio
Maurice R. and Corinne P. Greenberg Professor,
The Rockefeller University; Scientific and Executive Director, Center for the Study of Hepatitis C; past President of the American Society for Virology, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a Member of the National Academy of Sciences
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Julie Segre, PhD ▸ Bio
Chief & Senior Investigator, Translational and Functional Genomics Branch; Head, Microbial Genomics Section,
National Institute of Health, National Human Genome Research Institute; Recipient of a 2013 Service to America Medal, together with NIH Clinical Center epidemiologist Tara Palmore, for deploying genomic sequencing to guide hospital outbreak containment.
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2014
12th Annual CBC Symposium
Protein Engineering: From Computers to Cells to Clinic
Germaine Fuh, MS ▸ Bio
Senior Scientist, Department of Antibody Engineering,
Genentech Inc.; Adjunct appointment with the Early Biochemistry Discovery department, Research and Early development group (gRED) at South San Francisco, California; Recipient of the Ralph Schwall Memorial Inventor Award at Genentech (2009); Fuh’s work on Two-in-One antibodies was listed by MIT Technology Review as an important emerging technology in 2010
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Michael Jewett, PhD ▸ Bio
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering; Member, Chemistry of Life Processes Institute; Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center,
Northwestern University; Recipient of a David and Lucile Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering, the DARPA Young Faculty Award, and the Agilent Early Career Professor Award (2011)
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Shohei Koide, PhD ▸ Bio
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Committee on Cancer Biology,
The University of Chicago; Member of the University of Chicago Cancer Research Center, a Fellow of the Institute of Genomics and Systems Biology of the University of Chicago, and a Scientific Director of the Chicago Biomedical Consortium
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Jie Liang, PhD ▸ Bio
Richard and Loan Hill Professor of Bioengineering Department of Bioengineering,
University of Illinois at Chicago; Recipient of an NSF CAREER award (2003), a fellow of the American Institute of Medicine and Biological Engineering (2007), UIC University Scholar (2010-2013)
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Lynne Regan, PhD ▸ Bio
Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Professor of Chemistry,
Yale University; The first director of Yale’s Raymond and Beverly Sackler Institute for Biological, Physical and Engineering Sciences (2008); President of the Protein Society (2013-2014); Recipient of a 2-year Shannon Grant (1992), the Margaret Oakley Dayhoff Award (1995), a one-year Guggenheim Fellowship (2005)
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James A. Wells, PhD ▸ Bio
Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry,
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), School of Pharmacy; Professor (joint appointment), Department of Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology, UCSF School of Medicine; Co-founder, president and chief scientific officer of Sunesis Pharmaceuticals: Founder and director of the Small Molecule Discovery Center (SMDC), UCSF; Recipient of the Hans Neurath Award, the Pfizer Award, the du Vigneaud Award and the 2006 Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award
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Karl Dane Wittrup, PhD ▸ Bio
Carbon P. Dubbs Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biological Engineering, Associate Director, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Co-founder (2007) and Chief Scientific Officer of Adimab, Inc.; Co-founder and Scientific Advisory Board member of Eleven Biotherapeutics; Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2011) and the National Academy of Engineering (2012)
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2013
11th Annual CBC Symposium
Exploring Human Biology with Small Molecules
Virginia W. Cornish, PhD ▸ Bio
Helena Rubinstein Professor, Department of Chemistry,
Columbia University; Recipient of NSF Career Award (2000), a Sloan Foundation Fellowship (2003), the Protein Society Irving Sigal Young Investigator Award (2009), and the American Chemical Society Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry (2009)
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Paul J. Hergenrother, PhD ▸ Bio
Kenneth Rinehart Jr. Endowed Chair in Natural Products, Chemistry Professor, Department of Chemistry; Affiliate, Department of Biochemistry,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Recipient of an NSF-CAREER Award, a Research Corporation Research Innovation Award, a Beckman Young Investigator Award, an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, the GlaxoSmithKline Chemistry Scholar Award, an American Cancer Society Research Scholar Award, the ACS David Robertson Award for Excellence in Medicinal Chemistry, the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, the ACS Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry
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Stephen J. Kron, MD, PhD ▸ Bio
Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology,
The University of Chicago; Recipient of Beckman Foundation Young Investigator Award, an NSF CAREER award, and the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Scholar Award.
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Stuart L. Schreiber, PhD ▸ Bio
Director of Chemical Biology at and a Founding Member of the
Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Morris Loeb Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University; and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Recipient of many accolades including Searle Scholar (1982), Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow and NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award (1985), NIH Merit Award (1992), U.S. Cancer Foundation Award of Distinguished Scientist (2007) and AACR Award for Outstanding Achievement in Chemistry in Cancer Research (2010)
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Kevan M. Shokat, PhD ▸ Bio
Professor and Chair, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology,
University of California San Francisco; Department of Chemistry,
University of California Berkeley; Named a Fellow of the Pew Foundation, Searle Foundation, Sloan Foundation, Glaxo-Wellcome Foundation, and the Cotrell Foundation; Recipient of the Eli Lilly Award a member of the National Academy of Sciences (2010), the Institute of Medicine (2011), and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2011)
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Richard B. Silverman, PhD ▸ Bio
John Evans Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry,
Northwestern University; His awards include DuPont Young Faculty Fellow (1976), Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow (1981-1985), NIH Research Career Development Award (1982-1987), the Perkin Medal (2009), the E.B. Hershberg Award for Important Discoveries in Medicinally Active Substances from the American Chemical Society (2011), Fellow of the American Chemical Society (2011), and BMS-Edward E. Smissman Award of the American Chemical Society (2013)
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Gregory R. J. Thatcher, PhD ▸ Bio
Hans W. Vahlteich Chair of Medicinal Chemistry, Professor and Assistant Head for Research, Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy,
University of Illinois at Chicago
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2012
10th Annual CBC Symposium
Epigenomics
Chuan He, PhD ▸ Bio
Professor, Department of Chemistry; Director, Institute for Biophysical Dynamics,
The University of Chicago; Recipient of many accolades including Searle Scholar Award (2003), W. M. Keck Foundation Distinguished Young Scholar in Medical Science (2004), Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship and CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (2005) and Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator (2013)
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Steve Henikoff, PhD ▸ Bio
Member, Basic Sciences,
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Affiliate Professor, Genome Sciences,
University of Washington; a Member of the US National Academy of Sciences (2005)
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Steve Henikoff, PhD ▸ Bio
Member, Basic Sciences,
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Affiliate Professor, Genome Sciences,
University of Washington; a Member of the US National Academy of Sciences (2005)
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Jonathan Licht, MD ▸ Bio
Johanna Dobe Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology,
Northwestern University
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Tom Misteli, PhD ▸ Bio
Head, Cell Biology of Genomes Grou,p Senior Investigator,
National Cancer Institute; Recipient of numerous awards including the Gian-Tondury Prize, The Gold Medal of the Charles University, the NIH Director’s Award and an NIH Merit Award
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Qun-Tian Wang, PhD ▸ Bio
Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences,
University of Illinois at Chicago
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Joanna Wysocka, PhD ▸ Bio
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Systems Biology, Department of Developmental Biology,
Stanford University; Recipient of many accolades including the Searle Scholar Award, Baxter Award, Terman Fellow Award, California Institute for Regenerative Medicine New Faculty Award, W.M. Keck Foundation Distinguished Young Scholar Award and 2010 International Society for Stem Cell Research Outstanding Young Investigator Award
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2011
9th Annual CBC Symposium
Engineering Biology: From Tools to Insights
Christopher Chen, MD, PhD ▸ Bio
Skirkanich Professor of Innovation, Department of Bioengineering,
University of Pennsylvania; Recipient of numerous honors, including the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the Angiogenesis Foundation Fellowship, the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, the Mary Hulman George Award for Biomedical Research, and the Herbert W. Dickerman Award For Outstanding Contribution to Science, and a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
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David Eddington, PhD ▸ Bio
Associate Professor, Department of Bioengineering,
University of Illinois at Chicago
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Douglas Lauffenburger, PhD ▸ Bio
Ford Professor of Bioengineering, Head, Department of Biological Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology; a member of the National Academy of Engineering and of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and has served as President of the Biomedical Engineering Society, Chair of the College of Fellows of AIMBE and on the Advisory Council for the National Institute for General Medical Sciences at NIH
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Joshua Leonard, PhD ▸ Bio
Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science,
Northwestern University
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Dorothy Sipkins, MD, PhD ▸ Bio
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine,
The University of Chicago; Recipient of NIH Director’s New Innovator Award
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Melody Swartz, PhD ▸ Bio
Professor of Bioengineering,
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Switzerland; Recipient of many awards including many awards including the Leenaards Prize for Scientific Research, the Robert Wenner Award of the Swiss Cancer League, a Beckman Young Investigator Award, the NSF Career Award and the Rita Schaffer Award of the BMES
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2010
8th Annual CBC Symposium
Protein Folding and Misfolding in Health and Disease
Scott T. Brady, PhD ▸ Bio
Professor and Head, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology,
University of Illinois at Chicago
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Ana Maria Cuervo, MD, PhD ▸ Bio
Professor, Departments of Developmental and Molecular Biology and of Medicine; Co-director, Einstein Institute for Aging Studies,
Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Recipient of P. Benson Award in Cell Biology (2005), Keith Porter Fellow in Cell Biology (2005/8), Nathan Shock Memorial Lecture Award (2006), and Vincent Cristofalo Rising Star in Aging Award (2008)
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Steven Finkbeiner, MD, PhD ▸ Bio
Associate Director and Senior Investigator,
Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease; Director, Taube-Koret Center for Huntington’s Disease Research; Professor of Neurology and Physiology,
University of California, San Francisco; Recipient of many awards including the Lieberman Award, the Taube-Koret Prize and the Award for Outstanding Research Achievement from
Nature Biotechnology
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Judith Frydman, PhD ▸ Bio
Professor of Biology, School of Humanities and Sciences,
Stanford University
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Randal J. Kaufman, PhD ▸ Bio
Warner-Lambert/Park-Davis Professor of Medicine; Professor, Departments of Biological Chemistry and Internal Medicine,
University of Michigan; Recipient of Distinguished Investigator Award from Michigan Hemophilia Society (2000), Van Wezel Prize (2003), and an American Association for the Advancement of Science Award (2007)
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Richard I. Morimoto, PhD ▸ Bio
Bill and Gayle Cook Professor of Biology; Professor of Molecular Biosciences; Director, Rice Institute for Biomedical Research,
Northwestern University; and a CBC Scientific Director; Recipient of American Cancer Society Faculty Research Award (1987); Dreyfus Distinguished Young Faculty Award (1982); NIH Merit Award (2000, 2011); Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1998); Huntington Disease Society of America, Award for Excellence in Medicine (2005)
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2009
7th Annual CBC Symposium
The Biology of Non-Coding RNAs: Old Molecules, New Actions
Richard Carthew, PhD ▸ Bio
Owen L. Coon Professor of Molecular Biosciences,
Northwestern University
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Richard Doudna, PhD ▸ Bio
Howard Hughes Investigator and Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology,
University of California Berkeley; Recipient of the Johnson Foundation Prize for innovative research, the National Academy of Sciences Award for initiatives in research, the Alan T. Waterman Award from the National Science Foundation, and the Eli Lilley Award in Biological Chemistry from the American Chemical Society.
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Manyuan Long, PhD ▸ Bio
Edna K. Papazian Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolution,
The University of Chicago
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Alexander Mankin, PhD ▸ Bio
Professor, Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology,
University of Illinois at Chicago
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John Rinn, PhD ▸ Bio
Assistant Professor of Stem Cell & Regenerative Biology,
Harvard Medical School; Recipient of Damon Runyon Cancer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship (2005), Smith Family Foundation Fellow and Damon Runyon Cancer Foundation Innovation Fellow (2009)
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Gisela Storz, PhD ▸ Bio
Deputy Chief of the Cell Biology and Metabolism Program,
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
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2008
6th Annual CBC Symposium
Frontiers in Molecular Imaging: From Promise to Practice
Robert S. BALABAN, PhD ▸ Bio
Scientific Director of the Division of Intramural Research (DIR) at the
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
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Chin-Tu CHEN, PhD ▸ Bio
Associate Professor of Radiology,
The University of Chicago
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Christopher CONTAG, PhD ▸ Bio
Departments of Pediatrics, Radiology and Microbiology & Immunology,
Stanford University; Recipient of the Society for Molecular Imaging Achievement Award (2006)
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Thomas Meade, PhD ▸ Bio
Professor of Chemistry,
Northwestern University; Recipient of many awwards including llinois Biotechnology Industry Organization (iBIO) iCON Innovator Award (2009), Fellow of the American Chemical Society (2011) and Fellow of the World Molecular Imaging Society (2012)
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Michael E. Phelps, PhD ▸ Bio
Norton Simon Professor of Molecular & Medical Pharmacology,
University of California, Los Angeles; Recipient of multiple accolades including the Enrico Fermi Presidential Award presented by President Clinton
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Keith Thulborn, MD, PhD ▸ Bio
Professor of Radiology, Physiology, and Biosphysics; Director of the Center for MR Research;
University of Illinois at Chicago
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2007
5th Annual CBC Symposium
Where Science Goes Next: Translation of Basic Discovery for Human Health
Speakers:
Anna Barker, PhD ▸ Bio
Professor and Director, Transformative Healthcare Networks; Co-Director, Complex Adaptive Systems Network,
Arizona State University; Former Deputy Director of the
National Cancer Institute (NCI) and as the Deputy Director for Strategic Scientific Initiatives; Recipient of the The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Margaret Foti Award for Leadership and Extraordinary Achievements in Cancer Research (2009)
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John Kessler, MD ▸ Bio
Ken and Ruth Davee Professor of Stem Cell Biology, Professor in Neurology, Ken and Ruth Davee Department and Molecular Pharmacology and Biological Chemistry,
Northwestern University
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Mark Ratain, MD ▸ Bio
Ken and Ruth Davee Professor of Stem Cell Biology, Professor in Neurology, Ken and Ruth Davee Department and Molecular Pharmacology and Biological Chemistry,
Northwestern University
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Panelists:
Gary Gordon, MD, PhD (Abbott)
Michael Flavin, PhD (Advanced Life Sciences)
Norbert Riedel, PhD ▸ Bio
President and Chief Executive Officer of
Naurex, Inc.; Member of the
Illinois Innovation Council; Member of the Board of Directors of the
Illinois Biotechnology Industry Organization (iBIO); Former Corporate Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer,
Baxter International Inc.
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Michael Rosen ▸ Bio
Senior Vice President, New Business Development, Science & Technology Group,
Forest City Enterprises, Inc.
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Mark Weinberg, MD (Takeda)
2006
4th Annual CBC Symposium
Infrastructures for Systems Biology
Ken Buetow, PhD ▸ Bio
Director, Computational Science and Informatics Core Program, Complex Adaptive Systems Initiative,
Arizona State University; Former Director of the
National Cancer Institute’s Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology; Recipient of The Editor’s Choice Award from Bio-IT World (2008)
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Leroy Hood, MD, PhD ▸ Bio
President,
Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, Washington; Recipient of many accolades including Lasker Award (1987), Kyoto Prize (2002) and National Medal of Science (2011)
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Kevin White, PhD ▸ Bio
James and Karen Frank Family Professor, Department of Human Genetics and Department of Ecology & Evolution,
The University of Chicago; Director, Institute for Genomics and Systems Biology at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory; Pritzker Fellow, The University of Chicago and the Pritzker School of Medicine
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2005
3rd Annual CBC Symposium
Proteomics and Informatics
Richard CARTHEW, PhD ▸ Bio
Owen L. Coon Professor of Molecular Biosciences,
Northwestern University
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Aaron Ciechanover, MD ▸ Bio
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2004); Distinguished Professor at the
Rappaport Family Institute for Research in the Medical Sciences at the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology), Haifa; Visiting professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine (2002-2003)
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2002
1st Annual CBC Symposium
The New Biology: Technological Innovations Applied to Health and Disease
Robert Grossman, PhD ▸ Bio
Professor of Medicine (Section of Genetic Medicine); Director of Informatics, Institute for Genomics and Systems Biology; Chief Research Informatics Officer for the Division of the Biological Sciences at the
University of Chicago; Senior Fellow, Computation Institute at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory; Former Professor of Math and Director, Laboratory for Advanced Computing,
University of Illinois at Chicago
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Andrzej Joachiemiak, PhD ▸ Bio
Director, Structural Biology Center,
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL); Senior Fellow, Institute for Genomics and Systems Biology,
The University of Chicago; Associate Adjunct Professor, Northwestern University
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Thomas Meade, PhD ▸ Bio
Professor of Chemistry,
Northwestern University; Recipient of many awwards including llinois Biotechnology Industry Organization (iBIO) iCON Innovator Award (2009), Fellow of the American Chemical Society (2011) and Fellow of the World Molecular Imaging Society (2012)
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Milan Mrksich, PhD ▸ Bio
Henry Wade Rogers Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry and Cell and Molecular Biology, McCormick School of Engineering,
Northwestern University; Former Professor of Chemistry,
The University of Chicago; Recipient of many awards including Searle Scholar Award (1996-1999), Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award (1996-2001), Sloan Research Fellow (2000), Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (2000), ACS Arthur C. Cope Young Scholar Award (2003), Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (2005) and Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (2013)
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Janet Rowley, MD ▸ Bio
Blum-Riese Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine,
The University of Chicago; Recipient of many accolades including Lasker Award and National Medal of Science (1998), Gruber Prize in Genetics and the Presidential Medal of Freedom (2009)
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