April 2008

MONROVIA, CA – Dr. Gabriela Cesar, Chief Scientific Officer and Co-founder at Stemina Biomarker Discovery will be speaking at GTCbio’s 2nd Annual Rediscovering Biomarkers conference on July 10-11, 2008 in Boston, MA. Dr. Cesar will present on the identification of candidate biomarkers of toxicity using human embryonic stem cells. Animal models have a limited ability to elucidate biochemical...

MONROVIA, CA – Dr. Tim Harris, Director of Advanced Technology Program and Corporate Vice President of Technology at SAIC-Frederick will be presenting at GTCbio’s 2nd Rediscovering Biomarkers Conference on July 10-11, 2008 in Boston, MA. Dr. Harris will present on “Towards Holistic Molecular Profiling.” The development of Biomarkers tends to be one marker at a time. The Advanced...

MONROVIA, CA – Dr. Samir Hanash, Program Head at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center will give the keynote presentation at GTCbio’s 2nd Annual Rediscovering Biomarkers Conference on July 10-11, 2008 in Boston, MA. Dr. Hanash will be presenting on “Fast Tracking the Development of Cancer Biomarkers.” Although our understanding of the molecular pathogenesis of common types of cancers has...

MONROVIA, CA – Dr. Saju Nettikadan, Director of Emerging Technologies at BioForce Nanosciences will be speaking at GTCbio’s 2nd Annual Rediscovering Biomarkers on July 10-11, 2008 in Boston, MA. Dr. Nettikadan will present on “Towards Biomarker Detection from Single Cells.” Significant advances in proteomics have resulted in continued growth in use of antibody microarrays for multiplexed...

MONROVIA, CA – Dr. Robert Lechleider, Associate Director at MedImmune will be speaking at GTCbio’s 2nd Annual Rediscovering Biomarkers Conference on July 10-11, 2008 in Boston, MA. Dr. Lechleider will present on “Biomarkers in Oncology Drug Development: The Road to Shangri-La?” Much hype has surrounded the use of biomarkers to speed the approval process in drug development. This is...

MONROVIA, CA – Dr. Risto Kauppinen, Professor of Radiology at Dartmouth College will be speaking at GTCbio’s 2nd Annual Rediscovering Biomarkers Conference on July 10-11, 2008 in Boston, MA. Dr. Kauppinen will present on “Searching Limits for Non-invasive Detection of Endogenous Biomarkers by Magnetic Resonance.” Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), a spectroscopic technique that is most...

MONROVIA, CA – Peter Duncan, Vice President at Aureon Laboratories will be presenting at GTCbio’s 2nd Annual Rediscovering Biomarkers Conference on July 10-11, 2008 in Boston, MA. Dr. Duncan will speak on “Aureon Systems Pathology: A Novel Platform for Automated Tissue Biomarker Quantitation.” Aureon has created a state of the art tissue analysis platform, called Systems Pathology...

MONROVIA, CA – Dr. Mike Wang, Research Scientist at Harvard University will be presenting at GTCbio’s 2nd Annual Rediscovering Biomarkers Conference on July 10-11, 2008 in Boston, MA. Dr. Wang will speak on “A Genome-Wide Expression Analysis in Blood Identifies Pre-Elafin (PI3) as a Biomarker in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS).” The acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is...

MONROVIA, CA – Jon Butler, Assistant Senior Biochemist at Eli Lilly & Co. will be presenting at GTCbio’s 2nd Annual Rediscovering Biomarkers conference on July 10-11, 2008 in Boston, MA. Dr. Butler will speak on “Utilizing a LC/MS/MS/MRM Quantitative Targeted Biomarker Panel to Elucidate Multiple Biological Changes Simultaneously.” Biomarkers are commonly used to characterize a...

MONROVIA, CA – Dr. Henry Rodriguez, Director of Clinical Proteomic Technologies for Cancer at the National Cancer Institute, NIH will be presenting at GTCbio’s 2nd Annual Rediscovering Biomarkers conference on July 10-11, 2008 in Boston, MA. Dr. Rodriguez will speak on removing bottlenecks from proteomic process. Proteomics have revolutionized cell biology and biochemistry by providing...