Disease modeling is the use of a disease model, which is an animal or cells containing all or some of the pathological characteristics and mechanisms of a disease, to study that particular disease.
DATE: February 8, 2017TIME: 10:30am PT, 1:30pm ETThe cat remains an important comparative species for studying the long-term safety and efficacy of emergent medical modalities, such as...
DATE: February 8, 2017TIME: 10:30am PT, 1:30pm ETThe utility of animal models in drug development is limited, in part, by the measures available to researchers for monitoring animals. I...
DATE: February 8, 2017TIME: 9:00am PT, Noon ETTraining programs for animal care and use personnel are integral to both animal welfare and quality research outcomes. There are a variety...
DATE: February 8, 2017TIME: 6:00am PT, 9:00 ETSeveral regulatory bodies require that animals used in biomedical and behavioral research exposed to procedures that may cause more th...
DATE: December 14, 2016
TIME: 7:30am PT, 10:30am ET
A major hurdle in developing relevant disease models for drug discovery is access to the healthy and diseased tissue of interest; induc...
DATE: December 1, 2016TIME: 8:00 AM PT, 11:00 AM ETPreclinical imaging enables the measurement and assessment of biological processes in vivo utilizing technologies such as biolum...
Inherited retinal degenerative disorders such as retinitis pigmentosa are characterized by death of the light sensing photoreceptive neurons of the outer retina. Like the rest of the CNS, the...
The generation of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) from adult easily accessible somatic tissues was introduced ten years ago. This technology has revolutionized our opportunities to stu...
Culture systems for pluripotent stem cell (PSC) expansion enable generation of a nearly unlimited pool of cells for downstream differentiation, disease modeling, drug discovery, and therapeut...
DATE: November 15, 2016
TIME: 9:00 AM PT, 12:00 PM ET
The virulent intracellular pathogen Francisella tularensis subsp. tularensis (Ftt) causes an acute, lethal diseas...
DATE: November 10, 2016
TIME: 9:00am PT, Noon ET
The CellSimple™ Cell Analyzer enables quick and easy research assays, including functional cell-based assays, cell-model...
DATE: November 9, 2016
TIME: 8:00am PT, 11:00am ET
This talk will characterize the current clinical and laboratory standards for determining risk for chronic renal dysfunction...
There have been significant increases in emergency room visits across the US and delays in the ED leads to poor outcomes. There is an association between waiting times and short term mo...
Vitamin D3 supplementation can effectively remedy the current epidemic of vitamin D deficiency, especially within the African-American population and the elderly of any ethnicity. Racial disp...
Cell Sciences Innovation, Merck Research Laboratories, 2015 Galloping Hill Road, Kenilworth, NJ USA
In vitro translational models play a critical role in the drug discovery process because t...
Induced pluripotent stem cells derived from patient cells have emerged as complementary tools to study human neurological disorders. Neurxstem Inc has generated human iPSC-derived synth...
Virus Ecology is a field that is gaining momentum, fueled in part by metagenomic studies from many environments previously ignored. Biodiversity studies of plant viruses show that they...
Despite FDA-approved vaccines and antivirals, seasonal and pandemic influenza remains a serious threat associated with substantial morbidity and mortality. The present modalities and va...
The human race, like all macrobiological life, evolved in a sea of microbes. There was no way to keep the bacterial and archaeal hoards at bay, so instead life evolved mechanisms to live with...
The human enteric nervous system (ENS) is derived from the neural crest and represents a complex network of ~500 million neurons with dozens of distinct neurotransmitter and hormone subtypes ...
Stem cells, specifically induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), offer exciting potential for the future of cell therapy and regenerative medicine. More recently, genetic engineering of stem ...
In the last 10 years, PCSK9 emerged as a promising target for the treatment of autosomal dominant hypercholesterolemia (ADH). With the emergence of induced pluripotent stem (hiPS) cells and f...
Neuropathic pain and bladder dysfunction represent significant quality of life issues for many spinal cord injury patients. Loss of GABAergic tone in the injured spinal cord may contribute to...
DATE: February 8, 2017TIME: 10:30am PT, 1:30pm ETThe cat remains an important comparative species for studying the long-term safety and efficacy of emergent medical modalities, such as...
DATE: February 8, 2017TIME: 10:30am PT, 1:30pm ETThe utility of animal models in drug development is limited, in part, by the measures available to researchers for monitoring animals. I...
DATE: February 8, 2017TIME: 9:00am PT, Noon ETTraining programs for animal care and use personnel are integral to both animal welfare and quality research outcomes. There are a variety...
DATE: February 8, 2017TIME: 6:00am PT, 9:00 ETSeveral regulatory bodies require that animals used in biomedical and behavioral research exposed to procedures that may cause more th...
DATE: December 14, 2016
TIME: 7:30am PT, 10:30am ET
A major hurdle in developing relevant disease models for drug discovery is access to the healthy and diseased tissue of interest; induc...
DATE: December 1, 2016TIME: 8:00 AM PT, 11:00 AM ETPreclinical imaging enables the measurement and assessment of biological processes in vivo utilizing technologies such as biolum...
Inherited retinal degenerative disorders such as retinitis pigmentosa are characterized by death of the light sensing photoreceptive neurons of the outer retina. Like the rest of the CNS, the...
The generation of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) from adult easily accessible somatic tissues was introduced ten years ago. This technology has revolutionized our opportunities to stu...
Culture systems for pluripotent stem cell (PSC) expansion enable generation of a nearly unlimited pool of cells for downstream differentiation, disease modeling, drug discovery, and therapeut...
DATE: November 15, 2016
TIME: 9:00 AM PT, 12:00 PM ET
The virulent intracellular pathogen Francisella tularensis subsp. tularensis (Ftt) causes an acute, lethal diseas...
DATE: November 10, 2016
TIME: 9:00am PT, Noon ET
The CellSimple™ Cell Analyzer enables quick and easy research assays, including functional cell-based assays, cell-model...
DATE: November 9, 2016
TIME: 8:00am PT, 11:00am ET
This talk will characterize the current clinical and laboratory standards for determining risk for chronic renal dysfunction...
There have been significant increases in emergency room visits across the US and delays in the ED leads to poor outcomes. There is an association between waiting times and short term mo...
Vitamin D3 supplementation can effectively remedy the current epidemic of vitamin D deficiency, especially within the African-American population and the elderly of any ethnicity. Racial disp...
Cell Sciences Innovation, Merck Research Laboratories, 2015 Galloping Hill Road, Kenilworth, NJ USA
In vitro translational models play a critical role in the drug discovery process because t...
Induced pluripotent stem cells derived from patient cells have emerged as complementary tools to study human neurological disorders. Neurxstem Inc has generated human iPSC-derived synth...
Virus Ecology is a field that is gaining momentum, fueled in part by metagenomic studies from many environments previously ignored. Biodiversity studies of plant viruses show that they...
Despite FDA-approved vaccines and antivirals, seasonal and pandemic influenza remains a serious threat associated with substantial morbidity and mortality. The present modalities and va...
The human race, like all macrobiological life, evolved in a sea of microbes. There was no way to keep the bacterial and archaeal hoards at bay, so instead life evolved mechanisms to live with...
The human enteric nervous system (ENS) is derived from the neural crest and represents a complex network of ~500 million neurons with dozens of distinct neurotransmitter and hormone subtypes ...
Stem cells, specifically induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), offer exciting potential for the future of cell therapy and regenerative medicine. More recently, genetic engineering of stem ...
In the last 10 years, PCSK9 emerged as a promising target for the treatment of autosomal dominant hypercholesterolemia (ADH). With the emergence of induced pluripotent stem (hiPS) cells and f...
Neuropathic pain and bladder dysfunction represent significant quality of life issues for many spinal cord injury patients. Loss of GABAergic tone in the injured spinal cord may contribute to...
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