SciCafé 2012

Wednesday 7-Mar-12 1:00 PM to 8:00 PM CST

Event Description

SciCafé 2012

Wednesday, March 7th

1:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Investor Event

The SciCafé is a small and exclusive event hosted by BioHousotn and the editors of Nature Biotechnology and Nature Medicine. Similar SciCafé events have been held in Boston and San Francisco for the past three years and now Houston has been chosen as the third featured city in the U.S. This prestigious event brings academic investigators into contact with the venture/business community.

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AGENDA

1:00 p.m.	Registration
1:15 p.m.	Welcome Remarks
	Jacqueline Northcut, CEO, BioHouston and Texas BioAlliance
	Andrew Marshall, Chief Editor, Nature Biotechnology
1:30 – 2:30 p.m.	Mauro Ferrari, Ph.D., President & CEO, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute Q&A Discussion
	Yang Xia, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas Health Science Center Q&A Discussion
2:30 – 2:45 p.m.	Break
2:45 – 3:45 p.m.	Xander H.T. Wehrens, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Molecular Physiology, Baylor College of Medicine Q&A Discussion
	Jeffrey Neul, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor Department of Pediatrics (Neurology), Molecular and Human Genetics, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Baylor College of Medicine; Endowed Chair, Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute, Texas Childrens Hospital Q&A Discussion
3:45 – 4:00 p.m.	Break
4:00 – 5:00 p.m.	Lynda Chin, M.D., Scientific Director, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Institute for Applied Cancer Science; Chair, Genomics Medicine Trey Westbrook, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Molecular and Human Genomics, Baylor College of Medicine Q&A Discussion

5:00 – 5:15 p.m. 5:30 p.m.	Closing Reception