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Follow on Google News | CHI's 2nd Annual FAST: Functional Analysis & Screening Technologies Congress, Nov. 17-19, Boston, MAKeynote Presentations Delivered by George Church, Anna Collén, Meir Click and More
Over 250 R&D teams are anticipated to attend the six conferences happening at the FAST Congress: Phenotypic Drug Discovery (Parts I & II), Engineering Functional 3D Models, Screening and Functional Analysis of 3D Models, Organotypic Culture Models for Toxicology, and Physiologically- Keynote presentations include: Personalized Reading and Writing of Organs George Church, Ph.D., Professor, Genetics, Harvard Medical School; Professor, Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard and MIT; Founding Core Faculty Member, Platform Lead, Synthetic Biology, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University Phenotypic Discovery at AstraZeneca Anna Collén, Ph.D., Director, Reagents and Assay Development, AstraZeneca R&D, Mölndal, Sweden Organs-on-Chips to Screen for Drug Efficacy and Toxicity Kristin Fabre, Ph.D., Scientific Program Manager, NCATS, National Institutes of Health In silico Lead Finding through Holistic Understanding of Screening Data from Multiple Approaches Meir Glick, Ph.D., Head, In Silico Lead Discovery – Cambridge, Center for Proteomic Chemistry, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research Organs-on-Chips: Geraldine A. Hamilton, Ph.D., Senior Staff Scientist, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University Phenotypic Screening: A New Perspective Jing Li, Ph.D., Director, Genomics and Phenotypic Screening, Merck Research Laboratories An All-Human Microphysiologic Liver System for Carcinoma Metastasis Alan H. Wells, M.D., D.M.Sc., Vice Chair and Thomas J. Gill III Professor, Pathology, University of Pittsburgh Scaling and Systems Biology for Integrating Multiple Organs-on-a- John P. Wikswo, Ph.D., Founding Director, Vanderbilt Institute for Integrative Biosystems Research and Education and Gordon A. Cain University Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University In addition to the six conference tracks, the FAST Congress includes five short courses, panel discussions, and an exhibit/poster hall displaying technologies and research revolutionizing early-stage drug discovery. Important Dates: Early registration discount deadline: August 22, 2014 Poster abstract submission deadline: October 10, 2014 Advanced registration discount deadline: October 10, 2014 For additional information and to register, visit http://www.fastcongress.com Writers and editors are encouraged to attend. To request a press pass, contact Lisa Scimemi at lscimemi@healthtech.com About Cambridge Healthtech Institute (www.chicorporate.com) Cambridge Healthtech Institute (CHI), founded in 1992, is the industry leader in providing superior-quality scientific information to eminent researchers and business experts from top pharmaceutical, biotech, and academic organizations. Delivering an assortment of resources such as events, reports, publications and eNewsletters, CHI's portfolio of products include Cambridge Healthtech Institute Conferences, Barnett Educational Services, Insight Pharma Reports, Cambridge Marketing Consultants, Cambridge Meeting Planners, Cambridge Healthtech Media Group, and The Knowledge Foundation. End
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