EB 2005/FASEB MARC GENOMICS SYMPOSIUM AND POSTER SESSION:

Health Disparities in Cardiovascular Disease: Genetic and Therapeutic Applications

 

Organized by the FASEB MARC Program Advisory Board.  Sponsored by the FASEB Career Resources and MARC Program Office.  Coordinators:  Sunny Ohia, Dean of the College of Pharmacology at the Univ. of Houston; Sandra Murray, Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine; Frank Talamantes, Assistant Dean of Research and Professor of Pathology, Univ. of Texas Health Science Center.

 

MODERATOR: John Fakunding, Director of the Heart Research Program, Division of Heart and Vascular Diseases, NHLBI/NIH, Bethesda, MD;

 

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Richard Cooper, Loyola University, Chicago, IL; Jorge R. Kizer, Weill Medical College, New York, NY; Curt Furberg, Wake Forest Medical School, NC; Craig Hanis, University of Texas, Houston Health Sciences Center; Elisa T. Lee, University of Oklahoma.

 

RELATED POSTER SESSION:  Posters will be selected from the abstracts submitted to Experimental Biology 2005 participating societies. At least 20 posters from students and postdoctoral fellows involved in research related to the genetic basis of cardiovascular disease and its treatment in diverse populations will be selected for display during the symposium and reception/mixer. Travel awards for poster presenters (first authors only) included in this special session will be available through the FASEB MARC Program.  NOTE: You must be a U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident of the U.S. (green card required) in order to receive a FASEB MARC Program travel award.

 

For further information, please contact Lisa Dennison, Program Coordinator, FASEB MARC Program, 9650 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20814-3998; Email: ldennison@faseb.org; Tel: 301-634-7930.

 

The EB 2005/FASEB MARC Genomics Symposium is funded by a grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, National Institutes of Health.  (T36-GM-08637).