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Stem Cells … Hype, Hope or Reality

admin — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:55:49 +0000

About the Speaker
Dr. Daniel Kraft is a Stanford and Harvard trained physician-scientist with over 20 years of innovative biomedical research and clinical experience. He is an NIH funded faculty member with the Stanford Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine and is on clinical faculty with the UCSF pediatric bone marrow transplantation service.

Daniel’s research has focused on novel therapies involving stem cells, including understanding and manipulating the stem cell niche (recently published in Nature and Science). Daniel is the inventor of the recently FDA approved ”MarrowMiner” device for the minimally invasive harvest of bone marrow, and founder of StemCor systems, a clinical stage company which is developing the MarrowMiner and other tools and technologies to enable regenerative medicine.

About the Conference
BIL:PIL is a healthcare unconference, bringing the concepts and ideals of the BIL Conference to the Healthcare industry. We held BIL:PIL 2009 on October 30-31, 2009 in San Diego at the San Diego State University’s BioScience Center. More information at bilpil.com.

Full Digital Reconstructions of Brains

admin — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:58:41 +0000

About the Talk
The Knife Edge Scanning Microscope (KESM) is a tool that allows high-throughput digital microscopy. It can take an entire mouse brain (or human tumor) and digitize it at a sub-micron level. Originally developed for analyzing long neural paths, it’s also excellent at tracing microvasculature in a sample. This technology has been under development for 10 years at Texas A&M, and is now being commercialized by Todd Huffman and his company, 3Scan, for many different industries including cancer research (angiogenesis inhibitors).

About the Speaker
Hello my name is Todd Huffman, and these are the things that I do…toddhuffman.pbwiki.com

Personalized, Open Source Therapies for Breast Cancer

admin — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 12:14:25 +0000

About the Talk
The inspiration for The Pink Army Collective is open source software successes like Apache and Linux that compete with billion-dollar software giants. We believe open source biotechnology can do the same with big pharma, and we’re creating a community of professionals to build our own drug development company.

We’re focusing on breast cancer to start, and because we’re structurally different than any other biotech or pharma, we can take novel approaches to making medicines. In fact, rather than use the conventional drug development “pipeline”, famous for being slow and expensive, we’re championing a new system that we believe will be able to produce safe, effective, and individually personalized medicines quickly and inexpensively today, and be faster and cost even less as further improvements are made.

About the Speaker
I am a consultant-catalyst for open source biology, synthetic biology, the international Genetically Engineered Machines (iGEM) program, DIYbio, and open innovation models, with a focus on Canada. I am also faculty and co-chair of the biotechnology and bioinformatics track at the Singularity University.

Life Extension Progress

admin — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 22:56:15 +0000

About the Talk
I will give an overview of the research projects in the area of life extension that the Methuselah Foundation is now funding, their significance to SENS, and their potential to lead to accelerated progress towards the defeat of aging in 2009 and beyond.

About the Presenter
Aubrey de Grey is an author and biogerontologist exploring how regenerative medicine may be able to thwart the aging process altogether within a few decades. He has been interviewed in recent years in many news sources, including CBS 60 Minutes, BBC, the New York Times, Fortune Magazine, the Washington Post, TED, Popular Science and The Colbert Report.

SENS Foundation | Methuselah Foundation

About the Conference
BIL2009 was held at CSULB in Long Beach, CA on Feb 13-14.