Agenda

Wednesday – October 27, 2010

Barnhardt Student Activities Center, UNC Charlotte

Agenda

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8:00 AM – 3:30 PM	REGISTRATION
8:00 AM – 11:00 AM	SPONSOR BOOTH SETUP
11:00 AM – 5:00 PM	SPONSOR BOOTH EXHIBIT
9:00 AM – 11:30 AM	GRADUATE STUDENT POSTER COMPETITION
	(students to be available at posters)
11:30 AM	WELCOME Joan Lorden, Ph.D – Provost and Vice Chancellor
11:45 PM – 12:45 PM	LUNCHEON KEYNOTE
11:45 AM – 12:00 PM	INTRODUCTION Cory Brouwer, Ph.D – Director, Bioinformatics Research Center, North Carolina Research CAMpus
12:00 PM – 12:45 PM	SPEAKER Dave Hodgson – Chief Information Officer, Tethys Bioscience
	A new model for how drugs are developed and prescribed is emerging. It is driven by powerful movements in technology innovation, molecular understanding of disease, regulation and the rise of the empowered consumer. Bioinformatics has a central role to play in this new healthcare ecosystem from managing massive data volumes to integrating knowledge assets along the entire value chain.
12:45 PM – 1:00 PM	BREAK
1:00 PM – 1:15 PM	Robert G. Wilhelm, Ph.D – Associate Provost for Strategic Research Partners, Executive Director – Charlotte Research Institute, UNC Charlotte
1:15 PM – 2:00 PM	FUTURE TRENDS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY – A Candid Conversation between State Leaders
	Marjorie Benbow, JD, MBA, MSPH – Executive Director, Greater Charlotte Office, North Carolina Biotechnology Center
	Michael Luther, PhD, MBA – President, David H. Murdock Research Institute
	Arthur Pappas, MBA – Managing Partner, Pappas Ventures Chairman, Board of Directors, North Carolina Biotechnology Center
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM	ALTERNATIVE SOURCES OF BIOTECHNOLOGY FUNDING – A Success Story
	Robin N. Coger, Ph.D – Professor, Mechanical Engineering & Engineering Science, Director, Center for Biomedical Engineering Systems, UNC Charlotte
	Mark A. Hirsch, Ph.D – Carolinas Rehabilitation, Carolinas Medical Center
	Michael F. Dulin, MD, Ph.D –Executive Director, Dickson Institute for Health Studies; Research Director and Vice-Chair, CMC Department of FAMily Medicine
2:45 PM – 3:00 PM	BREAK
3:00 PM – 4:15 PM	REGIONAL PUBLIC/PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
	Clyde Higgs – Vice President, Castle & Cooke
	Susan MacIsaac, Ph.D – Monsanto NCRC Site Lead, Monsanto Company
	Stephen L. Hurst JD – Chief Business Officer, The Immune Tolerance Institute, Inc.
	Lane Johnson, Ph.D – Director, Agricultural Research, General Mills
	Allain C. Andry – Robinson, Bradshaw &AMp; Hinson
	Helen Gruber, Ph.D – Research Group Director, Department of Orthopedics, Carolinas Medical Center
	Yuri E. Nesmelov, Ph.D – Department of Physics and Optical Science, UNC Charlotte
	Irina Nesmelova, Ph.D – Department of Physics and Optical Science, UNC Charlotte
4:15 PM – 4:20 PM	NC BIOCONNECT
	Sheetal Ghelani, Ph.D – Manager, Business Development David H. Murdock Research Institute
4:20 PM – 4:25 PM	CLOSING REMARKS
	Lawrence E. Mays, Ph.D – Professor and Chair Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics
4:25 PM – 4:30 PM	GRADUATE STUDENT POSTER COMPETITION AWARDS
	Sheetal Ghelani, Ph.D – Chairman
	Robert G. Wilhelm, Ph.D – Associate Provost for Strategic Research Partnerships &AMp; Executive Director – Charlotte Research Institute, UNC Charlotte
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM	VIP NETWORKING RECEPTION
	Bioinformatics and Genomics Center, UNC Charlotte