Internal state is a term used to describe how conditions like mood and past experiences impact decision making and behavior. Internal states can be studied by evaluating outward behaviors. Someone experiencing fatigue being unable to walk down the street without taking a break is an example of an internal state.
DATE: November 15, 2017TIME: 10:00AM PTInteractions between tumor and immune cells in the tumor microenvironment (TME) play a key role in tumor progression and treatment response, with...
Acute and chronic pain are often managed with drug therapy, which may include extended use of drug classes such as opioids and benzodiazepines. Pain does not go away, and may intensify...
Dr. Tony Hu’s research focuses on developing and validating integrated nanotechnique-based strategies for marker discovery and molecular diagnostics in peripheral blood samples to provi...
Monitoring unfractionated heparin (UFH) using the activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT) or the anti-factor Xa (anti-Xa) chromogenic assay still seems to be a controversy. Is the...
In 2012, Consumers Reports and the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation launched the Choosing Wisely campaign. This initiative, which attracts media attention, assists physicians, n...
DATE: November 7, 2017 TIME: 10:00AM PSTChimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR)-transduced T lymphocytes have demonstrated impressive clinical activity against B cell malignancies in...
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer among Americans, and the second deadliest. Its pathogenesis results from an interplay between environmental factors that influence biol...
Checkpoint blockade therapy for cancer has had tremendous impact on clinical outcomes, yet only a subset of patients respond. Recent studies show that response to checkpoint blockade does not...
DATE: September 21, 2017TIME: 8:00AM PSTBoard-certified hematologist-oncologist Ola Landgren, MD, PhD, will review how vague symptoms (fatigue, bone pain, back pain) are linked to...
Increasing prevalence and severity of multi-drug-resistant (MDR) bacterial infections has necessitated novel antibacterial strategies. Ideally, new approaches would target bacterial pat...
DATE: September 12, 2017TIME: 8:00am PT, 11:00am ETEvery year, millions of dollars are wasted on poorly characterized and performing antibodies. Key researchers in the antibody co...
DATE: August 24, 2017TIME: 10:00am PT, 1:00pm ETTestosterone is a steroid hormone that stimulates development of male secondary sexual characteristics, but it is also synthesized i...
DATE: July 13, 2017TIME: 9:00am PT, 12:00pm ETAlmost 1.5 million Americans are diagnosed with diabetes every year. In 2012 alone, close to 10% of the population has diab...
Addressing the antibody reproducibility crisis: A panel discussion with key scientific leaders Reproducibility and antibody validation standards are two significant challenges f...
The commercialization of micro and nanofluidic devices has had promise for providing novel solutions to deliver high throughput, more efficient, integrated biological and chemical analysis to...
The Instrumentation Group at the BC Cancer Agency’s Genome Sciences Centre (GSC) is unusual in having an engineering group and extensive prototyping facilities embedded in a biomedical...
Many computational approaches exist for predicting the effects of amino acid substitutions from protein sequence. These are often (incorrectly) used for judging disease predisposition from in...
DATE: April 11, 2017TIME: 8:00 AM PT, 11:00 AM ET Checkpoint blockade therapy for cancer has had tremendous impact on clinical outcomes, yet only a subset of patients respond....
Alterations in homeostatic functions such as energy balance and sleep patterns are frequently seen in the elderly and these changes may precede and predict subsequent cognitive decline. ...
DATE: February 8, 2017TIME: 7:30am PT, 10:30am ETMany of us who believe in the importance of aseptic rodent surgery have lived through the frustration of trying to implement rodent asep...
This panel will discuss quality requirements of ancillary materials used in cell therapy manufacturing, relevant standards and how requirements vary by phase. Participants will learn wh...
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...
Sanger sequencing and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) methods have been the standard molecular methods in clinical diagnostics for decades. Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) technology r...
DATE: November 15, 2017TIME: 10:00AM PTInteractions between tumor and immune cells in the tumor microenvironment (TME) play a key role in tumor progression and treatment response, with...
Acute and chronic pain are often managed with drug therapy, which may include extended use of drug classes such as opioids and benzodiazepines. Pain does not go away, and may intensify...
Dr. Tony Hu’s research focuses on developing and validating integrated nanotechnique-based strategies for marker discovery and molecular diagnostics in peripheral blood samples to provi...
Monitoring unfractionated heparin (UFH) using the activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT) or the anti-factor Xa (anti-Xa) chromogenic assay still seems to be a controversy. Is the...
In 2012, Consumers Reports and the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation launched the Choosing Wisely campaign. This initiative, which attracts media attention, assists physicians, n...
DATE: November 7, 2017 TIME: 10:00AM PSTChimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR)-transduced T lymphocytes have demonstrated impressive clinical activity against B cell malignancies in...
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer among Americans, and the second deadliest. Its pathogenesis results from an interplay between environmental factors that influence biol...
Checkpoint blockade therapy for cancer has had tremendous impact on clinical outcomes, yet only a subset of patients respond. Recent studies show that response to checkpoint blockade does not...
DATE: September 21, 2017TIME: 8:00AM PSTBoard-certified hematologist-oncologist Ola Landgren, MD, PhD, will review how vague symptoms (fatigue, bone pain, back pain) are linked to...
Increasing prevalence and severity of multi-drug-resistant (MDR) bacterial infections has necessitated novel antibacterial strategies. Ideally, new approaches would target bacterial pat...
DATE: September 12, 2017TIME: 8:00am PT, 11:00am ETEvery year, millions of dollars are wasted on poorly characterized and performing antibodies. Key researchers in the antibody co...
DATE: August 24, 2017TIME: 10:00am PT, 1:00pm ETTestosterone is a steroid hormone that stimulates development of male secondary sexual characteristics, but it is also synthesized i...
DATE: July 13, 2017TIME: 9:00am PT, 12:00pm ETAlmost 1.5 million Americans are diagnosed with diabetes every year. In 2012 alone, close to 10% of the population has diab...
Addressing the antibody reproducibility crisis: A panel discussion with key scientific leaders Reproducibility and antibody validation standards are two significant challenges f...
The commercialization of micro and nanofluidic devices has had promise for providing novel solutions to deliver high throughput, more efficient, integrated biological and chemical analysis to...
The Instrumentation Group at the BC Cancer Agency’s Genome Sciences Centre (GSC) is unusual in having an engineering group and extensive prototyping facilities embedded in a biomedical...
Many computational approaches exist for predicting the effects of amino acid substitutions from protein sequence. These are often (incorrectly) used for judging disease predisposition from in...
DATE: April 11, 2017TIME: 8:00 AM PT, 11:00 AM ET Checkpoint blockade therapy for cancer has had tremendous impact on clinical outcomes, yet only a subset of patients respond....
Alterations in homeostatic functions such as energy balance and sleep patterns are frequently seen in the elderly and these changes may precede and predict subsequent cognitive decline. ...
DATE: February 8, 2017TIME: 7:30am PT, 10:30am ETMany of us who believe in the importance of aseptic rodent surgery have lived through the frustration of trying to implement rodent asep...
This panel will discuss quality requirements of ancillary materials used in cell therapy manufacturing, relevant standards and how requirements vary by phase. Participants will learn wh...
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...
Sanger sequencing and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) methods have been the standard molecular methods in clinical diagnostics for decades. Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) technology r...
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