Thursday, April 7:

• 7 p.m.: Networking/socializing the Doubletree Hotel.

Friday, April 8:

• 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. (including lunch): Healey Library, 11th Floor Rooms - H11-0011A & B
  Current Students: US-based BMEP students for the 2010/2011 Academic Year will present their current scientific results and experiences. Hosted by Hilmar Stolte, M.D., President. Moderators for three panels:

• Panel 1: Boston & New Hampshire, Moderator: Prof. Dirk Hentschel, M.D., Harvard Institute of Medicine, Boston
• Panel 2: Canada & the Eastern United States, Moderator: Dr. Miriam Haverkamp, M.D., M.P.H., Harvard Medical School
• Panel 3: Central / Western States, Moderator: Elmar Burchardt, M.D., Ph.D., Vice President, Pfizer Inc., Cambridge

• 4:00 p.m.: Informal Alumni Networking Event for all U.S.-based BMEP Alumni and current BMEP students, hosted by Prof. Karsten Dreinhöfer, M.D., Univ. Professor & Chairman Development Committee IALS, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin.

• 7 p.m.:  Dinner for all participants, including the Saturday Planning Group panel.

Saturday, April 9:

• 10:00 a.m to 5:00 p.m.: Wheatley Hall, Third Floor Room 176, Venture Development Center

Planning Group Panel Discussions
Current students and alumni are welcome to listen in on the planning for two major upcoming IALS conferences (lunch is included):


• 1. “Advancing the Life Science and Uniting Universities, Corporate, and Government Partners,” Boston, Mass., October, 2011
• This conference continues issues and discussions begun at the February 2009 IALS conference, including the topic of “Breaking down barriers for cooperation: life sciences and stakeholders in the global arena.”

Chair:
Prof. Andrew Grosovsky, Ph.D.
Dean College of Science and Mathematics, UMass, Boston

Introduction:
Prof. Robert Price, Ph.D.,
Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry, King’s College London

Prof. Russel K. Schutt, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair of Sociology University of Massachusetts Boston

Alexander Schachtrupp, M.D.,
Associate Professor (Agenda continued on p. 2) Chief of Clinical Research, B.Braun Melsungen AG, Melsungen, Germany

• 2. “A Transnational Dialog: Protection of Human Subjects,” Berlin., October, 2012
• A collaborative discussion by faculty and industry leaders from PRIM&R, IALS, and UMass Boston on the topic of “Ethical implications of biomedicine at the molecular and genetic levels.”

Chair:
Joan Rachlin, JD, MPH
Executive Director PRIM&R, Boston

Introduction:
Roya Khosravi-Far, Ph.D., Associate Professor,
Harvard Medical School, Boston

Dr. Reef Youngreen, Assistant Professor,
Sociology, UMass Boston

Prof. Siegfried Geyer, Ph.D.
Director Medical Sociology Unit Medizinische Hochschule Hannover

• Optional Evening Program and dinner at the VDC, on-campus restaurant.

Accommodations:
Doubletree Club Boston Bayside
240 Mt. Vernon Street
Boston, MA 02125      1-617-822-3600 

• A limited number of rooms have been reserved at the university rate at the Doubletree Hotel, so please try to register early. Use code “UMC” to get this rate.  
• (NOTE: Please enter Dorchester as the hotel’s actual location in your GPS, not Boston. Otherwise you may end up at a different Doubletree hotel in Boston.)

CONTACT:

Prof. Hilmar Stolte, M.D.  Univ. Professor em. & President IALS Medizinische Hochschule Hannover stolte@lifesciences.net Phone: (49) 5731 23941

Eunsook Hyun, Ph. D. Professor & Associate Provost Office Int. and Transn. Affairs (OITA) UMass, Boston Eunsook.Hyun@umb.edu Phone: (1) 617 287 7643

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