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2005 Guangzhou International Biomedicine Day

Date:Dec 30, 2006
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