2002 ASCI/AAP Joint Meeting


Friday, April 26, 2002
1:30 p.m. ASCI Institutional Representatives Retreat
3:30 p.m. Trainee Welcome Reception
4:30 p.m.
  to 6:15 p.m.
Keynote Panel Discussion
A tale of two campuses: The relationship between academia and industry
Co-Chairs: David Ginsburg (ASCI President) and Lee Goldman (AAP President)
Introduction: Barry Coller (Rockefeller University)
Panelists: Jeffrey Leiden (Abbott Labs), Joseph Martin (Harvard Medical School), Arnold Relman (Harvard Medical School), Eve Slater (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services), Ralph Snyderman (Duke University School of Medicine), and Tadataka Yamada (GlaxoSmithKline)
6:30 p.m. ASCI New Member Reception
Introduction of new ASCI members
7:30 p.m. ASCI Dinner
Presentation by Francis Collins

Saturday, April 27, 2002
8:00 a.m. Bench to Bedside Symposium: Chromosomes to Cancer
STI571: A Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor for the Treatment of CML -- Validating the Promise of Molecularly Targeted Therapy
Brian Druker (Oregon Health and Science University)
Cooperating Oncogenes as Therapeutic Targets in AML
D. Gary Gilliland (Harvard Medical School)
9:30 a.m. New member presentation
Novel Regulators of Vitamin D Metabolism and Action: Lessons Learned at the Los Angeles Zoo
John S. Adams (AAP) (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center)
10:00 a.m. Break
10:30 a.m. New member presentations
Neuro Imaging and Schizophrenia
Nancy C. Andreasen (AAP) (University of Iowa)
The Pathophysiology of Stress in the Endoplasmic Reticulum
David Ron (AAP) (NYU School of Medicine)
Cell Cycle Control of Morphogenesis and Chromosome Segregation
David S. Pellman (ASCI) (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute)
12:00 noon Poster Session (trainees present) with lunch
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2:30 p.m. Scientific Symposium
Genomic Approaches to Finding New Cancer Genes
Barbara L. Weber (University of Pennsylvania)
Rethinking the Pathogenesis of Kaposi's Sarcoma
Donald E. Ganem (University of California, San Francisco)
4:00 p.m. Break
4:15 p.m. New member presentations
Signal Transduction by Oxygen Radicals
Toren Finkel (ASCI) (National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, NIH)
Multi-Species Sequencing of Targeted Genomic Regions: A Platform for Studying Genome Architecture, Function, and Evolution
Eric D. Green (ASCI) (National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH)
5:15 p.m. ASCI Award Presentation and Lecture
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The Age of Cancer
Ronald A. DePinho (Harvard Medical School)
7:00 p.m. AAP Annual Reception and Dinner
Presentation by D.A. Henderson
10:00 p.m. Presidential Dessert Reception

Sunday, April 28, 2002
8:00 a.m. AAP Business Meeting and Presidential Address
Lee Goldman
9:15 a.m. Presentation of the George M. Kober Medal
Presenters: Jean Wilson and Daniel Foster
Recipients: Michael Brown and Joseph Goldstein
9:45 a.m. ASCI business meeting and Presidential Address
David Ginsburg
11:00 a.m. Trainee panel discussion
Mentoring from the other side
Trainee panelists discuss mentorship issues from their perspective.
11:45 a.m. Presentation of Trainee Poster Awards
12:00 noon Adjourn
The American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians gratefully acknowledge the support of the following companies who made this program possible by providing unrestricted educational grants.
BenefactorMerck & Co., Inc.
DonorAbbott Laboratories
GlaxoSmithKline
SponsorAmgen, Inc.
Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Genentech