2003 ASCI/AAP Joint Meeting


Friday, April 25, 2003
1:00 PM - 6:30 PM Registration
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Panel Discussion
Balancing Personal Life and A Career in Science/Medicine
Chairs: Chi Van Dang and Michael Welsh
Elizabeth Nabel - National Institutes of Health
Gary Nabel - National Institutes of Health
Judith Swain - Stanford University
Lopa Mishra - Georgetown University
Leon Rosenberg - Princeton University
Jonathan Licht - Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
6:30 PM ASCI New Member Reception
Introduction of New ASCI Members
7:30 PM ASCI Annual Dinner
Presentation by Edward Benz, Jr.
Poster Viewing

Saturday, April 26, 2003
7:30 AM Continental Breakfast
8:00 AM - 9:10 AM Plenary Session I
Insight into Complex Disease from Monogenic Disorders
Chairs: Kenneth Kaushansky and Ralph Snyderman
8:00 AM Genetic Defenses Against Sterol Accumulation
Helen Hobbs
UT Southwestern Medical Center, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
8:35 AM Elastases in Health and Disease
Steven Shapiro
Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital
9:10 AM - 11:50 PM Plenary Session II
New Member Presentations
Chairs: Chi Van Dang and Michael Welsh
9:10 AM ASCI New Member Presentation
Harry Dietz III
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
9:25 AM Discussion
9:30 AM AAP New Member Presentation
Achieving Specificity in the Control of Growth and Metabolism
Morris Birnbaum
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
9:45 AM Discussion
9:50 AM Break
10:30 AM ASCI New Member Presentation
Joseph Heitman
University Medical Center
10:45 AM Discussion
10:50 AM AAP New Member Presentation
The Neurotrophins: Jekyll and Hyde Growth Factors
Barbara Hempstead
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
11:05 AM Discussion
11:10 AM ASCI New Member Presentation
Elizabeth McNally
The University of Chicago
11:25 AM Discussion
11:30 AM AAP New Member Presentation
Leptin and the Biologic Basis of Obesity
Jeffrey Friedman
Rockefeller University
11:45 AM Discussion
12:00 PM Poster Session with Lunch
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2:30 PM - 5:10 PM Plenary Session III
Cellular and Molecular Bases of Disease
Chairs: Elizabeth Nabel and Elliott Kieff
2:30 PM Bone Marrow Transplantation: A Precedent for Successful Stem Cell Therapy?
Ernest Beutler
The Scripps Research Institute
3:00 PM Discussion
3:05 PM Cancer, Epigenomics and Life in a Dish
Andrew Feinberg
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
3:35 PM Discussion
3:40 PM Break
4:00 PM Pluripotent Adult Stem Cells: Hype and Reality?
Catherine Verfaillie
University of Minnesota
4:35 PM Adrenergic Receptor Polymorphisms in Heart Failure
Steven Liggett
University of Cincinnati
5:10 PM - 6:00 PM ASCI Award Presentation and Lecture
Craig B. Thompson
University of Pennsylvania
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7:00 PM AAP Annual Reception and Dinner
Presentation by Abraham Verghese
10:00 PM Presidential Dessert Reception

Sunday, April 27, 2003
Breakfast Buffet will be offered during Sunday sessions beginning at 7:30 AM
8:00 AM - 9:15 AM ASCI Business Meeting and Presidential Address
Chi Van Dang, ASCI President
9:15 AM - 10:30 AM AAP Business Meeting and Presidential Address
Michael Welsh, AAP President
10:30 AM Presentation of the George M. Kober Medal
Presenter: Irwin Rosenberg
Recipient: Leon Rosenberg
11:00 AM George M. Kober Lecture
Apoptosis in Homeostasis and Disease
Stanley Korsmeyer
11:30 AM Presentation of AAP Gavel to Ralph Snyderman
11:45 AM Presentation of Trainee Poster Awards
Chairs: Michael Welsh and Chi Van Dang
12:00 PM 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.
DonorAbbott Laboratories
GlaxoSmithKline
ContributorMerck & Co., Inc.