סימפוזיון: רפואה במאה ה-21

SYMPOSIUM - Medicine in the 21st Century

Tel Aviv University – Northwestern University

10:00 Introductory remarks

• Prof. Yoav Henis, Vice President for Research and Development, TAU
• Prof. Rex Chisholm, Vice Dean Scientific Affairs and Graduate Education, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

10:10 Rex Chisholm: Genomic medicine: Discovery and implementation

10:40 Noam Shomron: Genome-wide expression profiling of human lymphoblastoid cell lines discover novel biomarkers

11:00 Susan Quaggin: New angiogenic targets in disease

11:30 Jonathan Leor: New targets for cardiac repair and regeneration

11:50 Karen B. Avraham, Vice Dean, Sackler Faculty of Medicine

Uri Ashery, Head, Sagol School of Neuroscience

12:00 Lunch

12:45 Nav Chandel: Cancer Research: Mitochondria as signaling organelles

13:15 Ilan Tsarfaty: Interplay between Met signaling and metabolism as a target for breast cancer therapy

13:35 Alfred L. George: Channelopathies

14:05 Nathan Dascal: Lithium, ion channels and bipolar disorder

14:25 Jim Surmeier: Calcium and selective neuronal vulnerability in Parkinson’s disease

14:55 Bernard Attali: SK4 Ca2+-activated K+ channel is a critical player in cardiac pacemaker

15:15 Coffee and cake

15:30 Hagit Eldar-Finkelman: Lysosome as a therapeutic target in Alzheimer’s disease and its regulation by GSK-3

15:50 Illana Gozes: Genes shared among autism, cancer and Alzheimer’s disease: ADNP as a case study

16:10 Dimitri Krainc: Development of targeted therapies for neurodegenerative disorders

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