Foundation Encourages Innovation to Advance Inflammatory Bowel Disease Research
Innovations Symposium will bring together leading authorities to promote collaboration that will lead to a cure for Inflammatory Bowel Disease; the Foundation will highlight expected dramatic increase in funding.
CHICAGO, June 26, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Kenneth Rainin Foundation's Innovations Symposium will bring together the finest minds from multiple sectors in this one-day event to present their cutting-edge research. Using Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) as a lens, the symposium is designed to encourage scientific dialogue to spark new ideas and insights, and foster collaboration that will lead to a cure for IBD. The Symposium will take place on Friday, July 12, 2013, at the Four Seasons Hotel, Chicago. The Foundation will also highlight its expected dramatic increase in funding over a 5-year period, making it one of the leading funders of IBD research.
| WHO: |
The event includes prominent speakers from the US and Japan in multidisciplinary fields: |
| Vishva M. Dixit, M.D. |
Gokhan S. Hotamisligil, M.D., Ph.D. |
| GENENTECH, INC. |
HARVARD UNIVERSITY |
| Signaling Lessons from Death Receptors: the Inflammasome & Beyond |
ER Stress & New Ways to Control Stress & Inflammation |
| Richard I. Morimoto, Ph.D. |
Hiroshi Ohno, M.D., Ph.D. |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY |
RIKEN, JAPAN |
| The Heat Shock Response-Protecting from Cell Stress & Promoting Proteome Health |
Function & Differentiation of M Cells, a Subset of Intestinal Epithelial Cells Specialized for Mucosal Antigen Uptake |
| M. Celeste Simon, Ph.D. |
Herbert W. Virgin, IV, M.D., Ph.D. |
| UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA |
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, ST. LOUIS, MO |
| Hypoxia, Inflammation &Tumor Progression |
What Stands Between the Genome & the Disease Phenome |
| WHAT: |
2013 Innovations Symposium: Stress Responses, Inflammation & Disease |
| WHEN: |
Friday, July 12, 2013, from 8 AM to 5 PM |
| WHERE: |
Four Seasons Hotel , 120 East Delaware Place, Chicago, IL |
To learn more about the symposium, please visit www.rainin-symposium.com.
About the Kenneth Rainin Foundation: The Kenneth Rainin Foundation believes that people working to affect change need an early champion to further their ideas. Like our founder, we listen and invest in collaborative and innovative projects that advance the arts, education and health. Learn more at krfoundation.org.
SOURCE The Kenneth Rainin Foundation
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