Rare Disease Day at NIH will be held virtually on Monday, March 1, 2021, from 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. EST. This year’s event will feature interactive panel discussions, rare stories through TED-style talks and more. The event is free and open to the public, including patients, patient advocates, health care providers, researchers, trainees, students,
The National Academies will host a first committee meeting on Effectiveness of Non-Vaccine Influenza Control Measures on March 2-5, 2021 in virtual format. The event supports the Health and Medicine Division's Public Health Interventions and Countermeasures for Advancing Pandemic and Seasonal Influenza Preparedness and Response project. The global response to COVID-19 has pushed the boundaries
A virtual presentation on "RNA Viruses: How They Do What They Do" will be held on March 2, 2021 as part of the 2021 Demystifying Medicine Series. The 2021 Demystifying Medicine Series, which is jointly sponsored by FAES and NIH, will begin January 12 and includes the presentation of patients, pathology, diagnosis and therapy in
The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will host a COVID Seminar Series event on March 2: "Hindsight is 2020". The Community Science and Technology Seminar Series was launched to help the general public better understand and explore how science transforms our world. During this inaugural COVID-19 seminar series talk, Dr. Steven Wiley will discuss the differences
The National Academies will host an expert discussion on Identifying and Accounting for Vulnerabilities in U.S. Chemical Weapons Detection, Identification, and Tracing Capabilities on March 4, 2021. The meeting is open to the public in virtual format and is part of a larger 2-day meeting of the Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology. The Chemical
The National Institutes of Health COVID-19 Scientific Interest Group will host a webcast on Integrating Inflammation and Coagulation in COVID-19 on March 4, 2021. About the Speaker Yogen Kanthi, M.D., NHLBI Lasker Scholar, NIH Speaker Yogen Kanthi is a cardiologist and clinical vascular medicine specialist. His laboratory aims to understand how inflammation and coagulation contribute
The 2021 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) will be held March 6-10, 2021 in a virtual format. The synergy of basic science and clinical investigation has been a major contributor to the success of the meeting. CROI has facilitated the presentation of important discoveries in the field, thereby accelerating progress in HIV and
Quantum Science Concepts in Enhancing Sensing and Imaging Technologies: Applications for Biology—A Workshop will be held March 8-10, 2021 via virtual format. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is organizing this workshop on the research and development needs to advance biological applications of quantum-enabled sensing and imaging technologies. This event is open to
The Transportation Research Board will host a Visualizing Effects of COVID-19 on Transportation: A One-Year Retrospective webinar on March 8, 2021 that will delve into the pandemic’s effect on transportation. Presenters will discuss visualizations of where these impacts have been especially notable, including the drastic reduction in road and air traffic and in public transit
The Health and Medicine Division of the National Academies will convene a virtual committee meeting on the Current Global Governance Landscape for Influenza on March 9-11, 2021. This first meeting of the committee will serve for the committee to begin to analyze the major global frameworks, regulations, and partnerships for influenza vaccine preparedness and response.
The National Academies will host a committee meeting on Rapid Response by Laboratory Animal Research Institutions During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons Learned from March 9-10, 2021. Rapid (and Precise) COVID-19 Vaccine Development Barney Graham, M.D., Ph.D., Deputy Director, Vaccine Research Center, NIAID, NIH The COVID-19 Pandemic: The Triumphs and Challenges of Vaccine Development and Use
A virtual presentation on “Ethics in Vaccine Development, Testing and Use Making a COVID-19 Vaccine” will be held on March 9, 2021 as part of the 2021 Demystifying Medicine Series. The 2021 Demystifying Medicine Series, which is jointly sponsored by FAES and NIH, will begin January 12 and includes the presentation of patients, pathology, diagnosis
The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will host a virtual Demystifying COVID Seminar Series event entitled, "What Do Bats Have to Do With It?" on March 9, 2021. Bats, pangolins, and humans—oh my! This talk will explore the role wild animals play in the emergence of new diseases-- including how they spread, what symptoms they produce
Join the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) at the Vaccines against AMR Threats virtual workshop on March 12, 2021 from 11:00am - 1:00pm Eastern. Multi-drug resistant (MDR) organisms are a threat to national security and public health. As rates of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in pathogens continue to increase new therapeutics and vaccines are essential
The National Academies will convene a meeting Examining the Long-term Health and Economic Effects of Antimicrobial Resistance in the United States on March 16-19, 2021 via virtual format. During these meetings, expert speakers will discuss GARP’s work developing treatments for drug-resistant infections and CMS reimbursement for new antibiotics. Speakers will also present on the challenges
An NIH virtual presentation entitled “These Viruses are Forever: Consequences of Retroviral DNA Integration to AIDS and Evolution” will be held on March 16, 2021 as part of the 2021 Demystifying Medicine Series. The 2021 Demystifying Medicine Series, which is jointly sponsored by FAES and NIH, will begin January 12 and includes the presentation of
The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will host a virtual Demystifying COVID Seminar Series event entitled, “Behind the Mask: The Science on Stopping the Spread” on March 16, 2021. The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s Community Science and Technology Seminar Series was launched to help the general public better understand and explore how science transforms our world. ABOUT
The Georgetown University Global Health Initiative will host a virtual discussion on "Global Health Security and Diplomacy in the Age of Coronavirus - A Conversation with Ambassador Bonnie Jenkins" on March 16, 2021. As the COVID-19 pandemic has shown, the need to effectively and efficiently prevent, detect, and respond to emerging infectious diseases and other
A planning committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine host a public webinar entitled 'Moving Past COVID-19: Lessons Learned from Responses around the World' on March 17, 2021. Before the panel discussion, Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet, will kick off the webinar by providing a detailed description of how public health
Chemical Weapons Arms Control at a Crossroads: Russia, Syria, and the Future of the Chemical Weapons Convention March 23, 2021 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. ET The repeated use of chemical weapons by Syria and Russia threatens to undermine international efforts to eliminate these weapons. How will state parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention, which
The Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense will host a virtual meeting on March 23, 2021 to explore the needs of the first responder community and how the federal government can better support non-federal response to future biological incidents. Speakers will include: ▪ Philip Francisco, Chief of Police, Navajo Police Department ▪ Dia Gainor, Executive Director, National
The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will host a virtual Demystifying COVID Seminar Series event entitled, “Testing, Testing, 1, 2, 3 (And What’s Up with The New Vaccine, Anyways?)” on March 23, 2021. The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s Community Science and Technology Seminar Series was launched to help the general public better understand and explore how science
Policy Exchange: Pandemic Preparedness and Response – Are We Learning the Right Lessons? will be held March 24, 2021 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. ET. The COVID-19 pandemic revealed how vulnerable the world was to the spread of a novel contagious pathogen, and the United States found itself unprepared and unable to respond effectively to
The National Academies’ Forum on Drug Discovery, Development, and Translation will host a virtual public workshop on Mar 24, 2021 as part of a web series forum of events to discuss critical policy for advancement of biopharmaceutical innovation nationally and globally. This virtual public workshop will provide a venue for stakeholders to consider a transformed
The Schar School of Policy and Government Center for Security Policy Studies will host an expert panel discussion on March 26 on “Drones and the Future of Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Threats“. The event explores the risks posed by the convergence of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear CBRN weapons and drones. Drones allow
A virtual presentation on “How COVID-19 Pandemic Changes Medical Research, Teaching and Patient Care” will be held on March 20, 2021 as part of the 2021 Demystifying Medicine Series. The 2021 Demystifying Medicine Series, which is jointly sponsored by FAES and NIH, will begin January 12 and includes the presentation of patients, pathology, diagnosis and
The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will host a virtual Demystifying COVID Seminar Series event entitled, “COVID-19 Scientific Predictions and Where We Go From Here” on March 30, 2021. The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s Community Science and Technology Seminar Series was launched to help the general public better understand and explore how science transforms our world. ABOUT
