2005 Guangzhou International Biomedicine Day

Time： Dec.5, 2005 (Monday)

Venue: SUN YAT-SEN UNIVERSITY

Chairman: Prof. Zhu CHEN, Vice President of CAS

Co-Chair: Ling CHEN, Director General of GIBH. CAS

Anlong XU, Dean of Life Science, SUN YAT-SEN UNIVERSITY

08:30 – 08:35 Opening Address by Prof. Zhu CHEN, Vice President of CAS

08:35 – 08:40 Opening Address by Prof. Daren HUANG, President of the

SUN YAT-SEN UNIVERSITY

08:40 – 08:50 Presentation by Dr. Ling CHEN, Director General of GIBH. CAS

08:50 – 09:00 Presentation by Prof. Anlong XU, Dean of Life Science,

SUN YAT-SEN UNIVERSITY

09:00 – 09:30 Can we make better influenza virus vaccines？

Peter Palese, Ph.D.

Member of the National Academy of Sciences, USA

Professor and Chair of Department of Microbiology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

09:30 –10:00 Influenza: Avian Influenza Tropism

Hans-Dieter Klenk, Ph.D.

Institut für Virologie, Philipps Universität Marburg, Germany

10:00 –10:30 Pathogen Discovery in Acute and Chronic Disease

W.Ian Lipkin, Ph.D.

The Jerome L. and Dawn Greene Professor and Director, Columbia University, USA

10:30 –11:00 Gene Therapy for Cancer

Savio L.C.Woo, Ph.D.

Professor and Director of Carl C.Icahn Institute for Gene Therapy and Molecular Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA

11:00 –11:30 Regulating the Invasive Phenotype of Cancer Cells

Stephen J. Weiss, M.D.

Division Chief, Molecular Medicine and Genetics, The University of Michigan, USA

11:30 –12:00 Screening for inhibitors of HCV entry

Flossie Wong-Staal, Ph.D. Chief Scientific Officer, Executive Vice President, Immusol Inc., USA

12:00 –12:30 Title to be determined

Tom Caskey, M.D., Member of the National Academy of Sciences, USA
President & Chief Executive Officer , Cogene Biotech Ventures, USA