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    Academic-Industry Collaboration

    Best Practices

    Speakers: David J. Skorton (Cornell U.), Stef Heylen (JANSSEN Alzheimer Immunotherapy), James A. Weyhenmeyer (State University of New York), Stephen P. LaFleche (IBM), Karin Ezbiansky Pavese and René Bastón (The New York Academy of Sciences)

    At a recent press briefing, representatives from academia, industry, and the Academy explained how partnerships between universities and corporations can provide unique opportunities for regional economic development.

    In this eBriefing

    • Strategies for promoting a robust innovation ecosystem in New York
    • Changes in the pharmaceutical industry that are encouraging more collaborations
    • Recent success stories in academic-industry partnerships
  • Recent eBriefings 

    February 5, 2010

    Academic-Industry Collaboration: Best Practices

    Speakers: David J. Skorton (Cornell U.), Stef Heylen (JANSSEN Alzheimer Immunotherapy), James A. Weyhenmeyer (State University of New York), Stephen P. LaFleche (IBM), Karin Ezbiansky Pavese and René Bastón (The New York Academy of Sciences)

    Representatives from academia, industry, and the Academy met to discuss how partnerships between universities and corporations can provide unique opportunities for regional economic development.

    February 4, 2010

    To Regulate or Not to Regulate: Balancing Moral Hazard and Consumer Protection

    Speakers: Allan Meltzer (Carnegie Mellon University), Til Schuermann (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)

    With the federal government contemplating an expansion of power over the banking industry, how much regulation is needed, and when is too much regulation a problem? Two leading economists consider the challenges of striking the right balance.

    January 12, 2010

    Water and Health: Global Issues and Our Shared Responsibilities

    Speakers: Rita Colwell (University of Maryland), Peter Agre (Johns Hopkins University), Erik Peterson (Center for Strategic & International Studies), Kellogg Schwab (Johns Hopkins University)

    At a NYAS symposium organized in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, four experts provided a wide-ranging set of perspectives on the importance of water in our lives.

    January 11, 2010

    Collaborative Health Care for Older Adults: Uniting Medicine and Dentistry

    Keynote Speaker: Marie Bernard (National Institute of Aging)

    As baby boomers become older and live longer than past generations, the U.S. healthcare system is unprepared to treat their special needs. Creating more effective partnerships between dentists and medical doctors could lead to better health.

    January 10, 2010

    Growth Networks: Systems Biology Meets Developmental Biology

    Speakers: Angela DePace (Harvard Medical School), Stanislav Y. Shvartsman (Princeton University), Antonio Iavarone (Columbia University)

    To unravel the complexities of development, researchers are modeling early transcription networks, uncovering new roles for known proteins, and discovering the contribution of microRNAs.

    January 7, 2010

    Executive Regulation: Non-coding RNAs in Nervous System Development and Function

    Organizers: Eric Lai (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center), Thomas Tuschl (The Rockefeller University)

    MicroRNAs and related elements impose an important layer of regulation on the complex networks that comprise the nervous system. Scientists are discovering how these small RNAs contribute to processes as varied as synapse remodeling and cell differentiation.

    December 22, 2009

    Cooley's Anemia 9th Symposium

    Keynote speakers: Alan Cohen (Children's Hospital of Philadelphia), Chaim Hershko (Shaare Zedek Medical Center), and Sir David Weatherall (University of Oxford)

    New treatments and a potential cure using gene therapy are bringing new hope and health to individuals who suffer from this heritable blood disorder.

    December 15, 2009

    Innovate New York: Envisioning an Inventive City

    Moderator: Garrick Utley (Levin Institute)

    Looking at sectors as diverse as biotechnology, the media, and entrepreneurship, this ongoing series is exploring how New York City could be more competitive in the global economy.

    November 11, 2009

    Green Building Solutions: What's Working?

    A four-part series looking at the state of the art in green building technology and design.

    As sensors become more ubiquitous and information technology becomes less expensive, increasingly sophisticated computational tools are being developed to monitor and optimize energy performance.

    November 4, 2009

    Type 2 Diabetes Disparities in Ethnic Minorities: Origin, Challenges, and Solutions

    Organizer: Mary Ann Banerji, MD (SUNY Downstate Medical Center)

    Minority populations in the United States bear a disproportionate burden of diabetes and related conditions. Causes include genetics, social factors, and a need for more culturally sensitive approaches from the healthcare industry.

    October 16, 2009

    Something Borrowed, Something New: Drug Discovery Approaches in Chemical Biology

    Speakers: John Koh (University of Delaware), Akira Kawamura (Hunter College, City University of New York), and Tom Kodadek (The Scripps Research Institute)

    From traditional Asian herbs to high-tech computational approaches, chemical biologists are using everything in their arsenal to identify promising new drug candidates.

    October 13, 2009

    Short RNAs in Stress and Longevity: Regulatory Pathways

    Speakers: Frank Slack (Yale University), Ramanjulu Sunkar (Oklahoma State University), Evgeny Nudler (New York University), Anthony Leung (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Irina Groisman (André Lwoff Institute), Germano Cecere (Columbia University)

    Researchers are identifying microRNAs and siRNAs that play roles in the molecular programs regulating the stress response and senescence.

    October 2, 2009

    Trends in Chemical Biology 2009: Year-End Meeting of the Chemical Biology Discussion Group

    Keynote Speaker: Adrian Whitty (Boston University)

    Graduate students and postdocs from chemical biology labs around the New York area describe efforts to find and synthesize molecules that bind to proteins or DNA in useful ways.

    September 28, 2009

    Pattern Recognition: Systems Approaches to Studying Cancer

    Speakers: Andrea Califano (Columbia University), Galit Lahav (Harvard Medical School), Chris Sander (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center), and Arnold Levine (Simons Center for Systems Biology)

    Computational and experimental tools for modeling cancer biology are helping to identify common patterns underlying pathogenicity at the cellular and genome levels.

    September 21, 2009

    Out of Line: Cell Polarity in Cancer Progression, Invasion, and Metastasis

    Speakers: Senthil Muthuswamy (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Enrique Rodriguez-Boulan (Weill Cornell Medical College), John Condeelis (Albert Einstein College of Medicine), and Ian Macara (University of Virginia School of Medicine)

    A change in cell polarity is one of the hallmarks of carcinogenesis, and understanding—and stopping—that transition is now one of the hottest topics in cancer research.

    September 18, 2009

    Regenerative Medicine: Progress in Stem Cell and Transplantation Research

    Organizers: Anthony Atala (Wake Forest University), Stacie Bloom (New York Academy of Sciences), Yilin Cao (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Anita Chong (The University of Chicago), Stefanie Dimmeler (University of Frankfurt), Michael P. Sheetz (Columbia University), Qiming Zhan (Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences), Alex Zhang (Sanofi Aventis), Chunhua Zhao (Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences)

    Repairing damaged or diseased body parts has long been a goal of medical researchers. This international conference focused on the recent explosion of research progress and the challenges that remain.

    September 11, 2009

    Shortening the Food Chain: Farming in the City

    Speakers: Cynthia Rosenzweig (NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies), Dickson Despommier (Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health), Ted Caplow (BrightFarm Systems)

    Climate change impacts, population growth, rapid urbanization, food safety concerns, and the destructive nature of conventional agriculture together argue for pursuing sustainable agriculture in cities.

    August 24, 2009

    Circadian Disruption and Cancer: Making the Connection

    Keynote Speaker: Russell J. Reiter (The University of Texas Health Science Center)

    Our bodies use light cues to regulate fundamental cellular processes. Has overexposure to light and shift work in industrialized societies caused cell growth and proliferation to go awry?

    August 20, 2009

    Zero Net Energy Buildings: Reality or Fiction?

    A four-part series on sustainable building design.

    Green architects and engineers are working to balance energy consumption and generation at the level of individual buildings. But how do we define "zero" energy, and how can we reach this goal?

    August 12, 2009

    Potent Pathways: Structure-Guided Drug Discovery with Protein Kinases

    Speakers: Susan Taylor (University of California, San Diego), Vincent Stoll (Abbott Laboratories), Harren Jhoti (Astex Therapeutics), and Stephen Burley (SGX Pharmaceuticals)

    Protein kinases play a key role in almost every major pathway in eukaryotic cells. Structural approaches, including a new method called fragment-based drug design, are identifying potential targets against diseases including cancer.