The Conference on Clinical Research for Rare Diseases - CCRRD 2018 - will be held November 28, 2018 in Rockville, Maryland. Many fundamental advances in medicine have come from the study of rare diseases and these have benefited common diseases. In order to assure the future of this research, the training of the next generation of
The 2018 Virginia Ebola & Highly Infectious Disease Summit will be held Nov. 19, 2018 in Winchester, Virginia. Highlighted presentations include: From Ebola to Emerging Infectious Diseases: A Focus on the Frontlines Ebola PUI: Laboratory Testing and Biosafety Perspective Center for Domestic Preparedness Highly Infectious Disease Training Valley Health System-Wide Exercise Panel Discussion Eastern Virginia
Please join us on Monday, November 26, 2018, in Washington, DC, for a momentous occasion reflecting on the 100th anniversary of the influenza pandemic of 1918. A panel discussion entitled “A Century After the 1918 Influenza Pandemic—Why Are We Still Concerned Today?” cohosted by the National Academy of Medicine, with the Forum on Microbial Threats, will be held from
The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine will host “A topsy-turvy world where pathogen sequencing leads infection,” a lecture by Sharon Peacock describing how sequencing is being used to redesign hospital infection prevention and control on 26 November 2018. The event is part of the LSHTM’s Global Health Lecture Series. Sharon Peacock was previously
The Victorian branch of the Australasian Plant Pathology Society is hosting a Pathogen Bioinformatics special interest group meeting on the 28th November. The scope of this meeting broadly encompasses the genomic and bioinformatic study of pathogen and pest interactions with their hosts. Similar meetings have been previously held under the name of the Australian Pathogen Bioinformatics
Dr. Amesh Adalja, MD, a Senior Scholar at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security, will speak about the intersection of terrorism, pandemics, and emergency medicine on November 28th in Arlington, Virginia. Dr. Adalja specializes in infectious diseases, critical care, and emergency medicine. He was deployed to Haiti with the US Department of Health and Human
On December 3, 2018, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM), with participation from the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), will hold a public webinar about genome editing in animals. Genome editing is an innovative and rapidly evolving technology that offers many promising benefits to both human and
Public and Private Financing Markets: What's the Outlook for the Life Science Industry Join friends and colleagues for our last life sciences forum in the 2018 series. Experts from JPMorgan will provide insight into recent market activity as well as their outlook for the future of the life science industry. In addition, a panel of companies
The George Mason University Schar School of Policy and Government will host “Preventing Pandemics and Bioterrorism: Past, Present, and Future” featuring Robert Kadlec, M.D. Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) Health & Human Services on December 4, 2018. Join the Schar School Biodefense Program, Schar Alumni Chapter, and Dean Mark Rozell for an evening of connecting
