Learn about the latest medical breakthroughs by participating in webinars on topics surrounding disease, prevention and treatment in accordance with the latest research in health and medicine. Updates encompass a biological, psychological and sociological understanding of health.
DATE: August 27, 2020 TIME: 7:00am PT Novel anti-viral medications, including biologics and small molecule inhibitors, as well as serologic diagnostic tool sets are in urgent demand to fight...
SARS-CoV-2 has created significant challenges for laboratories, requiring the development, validation, and scale up of testing in a very short time period--often this was done for multiple m...
DATE: August 26, 2020 TIME: 8:00 am PDT The host immune "recognition" of cancer forms the basis of modern tumor immmunotherapy, a highly targeted treatment option with the demonstr...
DATE: August 20, 2020 TIME: 10:00am PT, 1:00pm ET Millions of formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissue specimens are archived annually. The enormous number of FFPE specimens available...
DATA: 19 de agosto, 2020 Horário: às 15:00 horas Desde que foi detectado pela primeira vez em Wuhan, China, em 2019, o novo coronavírus SARS-CoV-2 e a doença que...
FECHA: 19 de Agosto, 2020 HORA: 10:00 AM PST 1:00 PM CST Desde que se detectó por primera vez en Wuhan, China, en 2019, el nuevo coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 y la enfermedad que causa, COVI...
DATE: August 18, 2020 TIME: 10:00am PT Get deeper understanding of gene expression patterns by using assays that retain spatial organization at single cell resolution! Come learn about the n...
DATE: August 18, 2020 TIME: 6:00am PDT, 9:00pm EDT Hundreds of HPV tests with different variants are commercially available globally, but many of these tests do not meet the performance char...
DATE: August 12, 2020 TIME: 10:00am PT Routine Environmental Monitoring in GMP cleanrooms is a manual process and is usually complex, involving thousands of sample data points per month, man...
DATE: August 11, 2020 TIME: 8:00am PDT The goal of TB elimination, less than 1 case per million people per year, can only be achieved through a concerted effort to detect and treat persons i...
Join us for Symposium closing remarks, with a presentation by William May, Chairman of the Board, and appreciation award to Craig Gatto, PhD for his years of service on the Beckman Scholars...
The highly competitive nature of academic environments might seem to suggest that success can only be obtained at the cost of taking good care of oneself. However, sacrificing self‐care can...
This talk will touch on several key points: PhD (MD) important grounding in science; how to develop friendships, gather mentors and collaborators; keep up with the literature; look at eviden...
I will present how I came to choose the physician-scientist career pathway. I was inspired from an early age by stories about my great-grandfather, an academic surgeon who innovated gastric...
In this presentation Shameema Sikder will discuss her career trajectory starting as an undergraduate studying chemical engineering and biochemistry to an Associate Professor of Ophthalmology...
During this seminar I will present details of my path from Beckman Scholar to MD-PhD, advanced training as a neurologist, then a neurointensivist, and the interleaving of additional research...
A career in science journalism may not be what you think. This talk is more than a rehash of one writer's career path (though there is a little of that). It explains where the majority o...
In this presentation, I will discuss my experiences leading to my current position as a scientist and team leader, focused on chemical biology and drug discovery in the pharmaceutical indust...
In the movie "Moana" the lead character sings the refrain, "There's no telling how far I'll go" before she heads off on the adventure of a lifetime. In this short...
I will tell brief stories of experiences that have shaped my career, generalize the lessons learned, and translate them to three actionable items: (1) be careful with your pronouns, (2) embr...
Most researchers are curious about how to communicate their science to the media, yet they may also be worried that they'll be misquoted or misrepresented in an article. In an age where...
Scientific posters haven't changed in 30 years, which should be alarming to you (nothing in science should be stagnant). And evidence suggests they are incredibly ineffective. In this ta...
RNA mediates essential biological processes in all organisms. These functions include catalysis of crucial biochemical reactions such as peptidyl transfer during translation and transesterif...
Extrachromosomal circular DNA (eccDNA) comprises products of genomic recombination that cause somatic changes in gene length and sequence. These circular molecules are derived from canonical...
Current cancer management follows a multipronged approach that include surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. There is a pressing need for a platform technology to provide precision chemother...
In the adult mammalian hippocampus, neurogenesis (in which new neurons are generated and integrated into the CNS) is believed to underlie learning and memory. Within the hippocampus, numerou...
The rodent visual system has attracted great interest in recent years, owing to its experimental tractability, but the fundamental mechanisms used by the mouse to represent the visual world...