Screening is a test to detect early disease or risk factors for disease in large numbers of apparently healthy individuals. In medicine, it is checking for disease when there are no symptoms.
DATE: February 24th, 2017TIME: 8:00AM PT, 11:00AM ETPesticide residue analysis of baby food products represents a challenge for routine control laboratories as consequence of the string...
Although there have been enormous advances in gene sequencing, the results give massive amounts of data that only point to disease risk. Major health factors, including diet, lifestyle, envir...
In this talk, I will use examples from my research using big data analytics to define ideals of precision medicine and digital health across a variety of diseases. Specifically, I will i...
The starting point for an interaction between a patient and a clinician is almost always a set of clinical facts (aka a phenotype). Phenotype-first medicine is the standard way in which the p...
The use of pluripotent stem cell-derived cell types for disease modeling, drug screening and regenerative medicine is an exciting area of activity in health research. Prior to the availabilit...
DATE: February 8, 2017TIME: 1:30pm PT, 4:30pm ETPerlara PBC, is a public benefit company committed to discovering small molecule therapeutics for rare genetic diseases. Our approach con...
DATE: January 26, 2017TIME: 8:00am PT, 11:00am ETThe demand for low-cost, disposable devices with short response times capable of performing routine electrochemical biosensing has...
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 7, 2016
TIME: 9:00 AM PT, 12:00 PM ET
Kinases play important roles in many biological signaling pathways. Kinase inhibitors are therefore potentially found as actives in ty...
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...
DATE: November 16, 2016
TIME: 8:00am PT, 11:00am ET
Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in women and is the second leading cause of cancer death among wo...
Bulk analysis often leads to conclusions that assume averages reflect the dominant biological mechanism operating within an entire population. To fully understand how cellular heterogeneity c...
DATE: November 9th, 2016
TIME: 9:00 AM PT, 12:00 PM ET
The screening and functional characterization of novel ligands for G-Protein Coupled Receptors (GPCR) remains a key focus in drug di...
Antibodies are used in a broad range of research and diagnostic applications for the enrichment, detection, and quantitation of proteins and their modifications. Hundreds of thousands o...
In the past several years, there has been an increase in drug testing associated with chronic pain. Immunoassays are the most common method for initial screening which can test for a specific...
With increasing emphasis on effective pain management in clinical care, there has been a significant increase in the number of opioid prescriptions in the past decade. While these drugs...
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...
DATE: October 13, 2016TIME: 9:00am PT, 11:00am CTPrimary Aldosteronism (PA) is a group of disorders characterized by inappropriate aldosterone production. PA is commonly caus...
Date: October 11th, 2016Time: 10:00AM EST, 4:00PM CEST, 3:00PM BST, 7:00AM PSTPlate readers first became available about 30 years ago and have become the workhorses of researc...
The most important job of automated biology is to produce results that moves your research forward. If automation only executes a program of pre-determined set of steps, the researcher is lef...
DATE: September 20th, 2016TIME: 7:00AM PST, 10:00AM ETThere is a growing trend towards developing in vitro cell models that recapitulate the in vivo environment in basic research,...
DATE: February 24th, 2017TIME: 8:00AM PT, 11:00AM ETPesticide residue analysis of baby food products represents a challenge for routine control laboratories as consequence of the string...
Although there have been enormous advances in gene sequencing, the results give massive amounts of data that only point to disease risk. Major health factors, including diet, lifestyle, envir...
In this talk, I will use examples from my research using big data analytics to define ideals of precision medicine and digital health across a variety of diseases. Specifically, I will i...
The starting point for an interaction between a patient and a clinician is almost always a set of clinical facts (aka a phenotype). Phenotype-first medicine is the standard way in which the p...
The use of pluripotent stem cell-derived cell types for disease modeling, drug screening and regenerative medicine is an exciting area of activity in health research. Prior to the availabilit...
DATE: February 8, 2017TIME: 1:30pm PT, 4:30pm ETPerlara PBC, is a public benefit company committed to discovering small molecule therapeutics for rare genetic diseases. Our approach con...
DATE: January 26, 2017TIME: 8:00am PT, 11:00am ETThe demand for low-cost, disposable devices with short response times capable of performing routine electrochemical biosensing has...
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 7, 2016
TIME: 9:00 AM PT, 12:00 PM ET
Kinases play important roles in many biological signaling pathways. Kinase inhibitors are therefore potentially found as actives in ty...
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...
DATE: November 16, 2016
TIME: 8:00am PT, 11:00am ET
Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in women and is the second leading cause of cancer death among wo...
Bulk analysis often leads to conclusions that assume averages reflect the dominant biological mechanism operating within an entire population. To fully understand how cellular heterogeneity c...
DATE: November 9th, 2016
TIME: 9:00 AM PT, 12:00 PM ET
The screening and functional characterization of novel ligands for G-Protein Coupled Receptors (GPCR) remains a key focus in drug di...
Antibodies are used in a broad range of research and diagnostic applications for the enrichment, detection, and quantitation of proteins and their modifications. Hundreds of thousands o...
In the past several years, there has been an increase in drug testing associated with chronic pain. Immunoassays are the most common method for initial screening which can test for a specific...
With increasing emphasis on effective pain management in clinical care, there has been a significant increase in the number of opioid prescriptions in the past decade. While these drugs...
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...
DATE: October 13, 2016TIME: 9:00am PT, 11:00am CTPrimary Aldosteronism (PA) is a group of disorders characterized by inappropriate aldosterone production. PA is commonly caus...
Date: October 11th, 2016Time: 10:00AM EST, 4:00PM CEST, 3:00PM BST, 7:00AM PSTPlate readers first became available about 30 years ago and have become the workhorses of researc...
The most important job of automated biology is to produce results that moves your research forward. If automation only executes a program of pre-determined set of steps, the researcher is lef...
DATE: September 20th, 2016TIME: 7:00AM PST, 10:00AM ETThere is a growing trend towards developing in vitro cell models that recapitulate the in vivo environment in basic research,...