#  Breaking Boundaries: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Disease Solutions | Tenth Annual HSCI Malkin Retreat 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **May 21, 2015** 

 08:00AM - 06:00PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Harvard University, Northwest Lab Building, Room B103, 52 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA**  



 

 



 

**Faculty co-chairs:**  
***Paola Arlotta, PhD*** and ***Ya-Chieh Hsu, PhD***

   ![Breaking Boundaries logo](/sites/g/files/omnuum10026/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/hsci/files/breaking_boundaries.png?itok=1UhKUghg) 

 

  
The program will include remarks by ***Doug Melton, PhD,*** and ***David Scadden, MD***, on *HSCI - The Second Decade.*

**Morning keynote speaker:  
*Lorenz Studer, MD*** *"Modeling and Treating Neural Disease using Human Pluripotent Stem Cells"*

   ![Lorenz Studer, MD photo](/sites/g/files/omnuum10026/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/hsci/files/studer.png?itok=SJG7qvbH) 

 

  
Director, SKI Center for Stem Cell Biology  
Member, Developmental Biology Program  
Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research**Afternoon keynote speaker:**  
***Aviv Regev, PhD** "Systemic Dissection of Tumor Cell Circuits"*

   ![Aviv Regev, PhD photo](/sites/g/files/omnuum10026/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/hsci/files/bio-regev.jpg?itok=EDDR8jiA) 

 

  
Associate Professor of Biology, MIT  
Core Member, Broad Institute  
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute**Special presentations by**:  
***David Mooney, PhD***  
*"Biomaterials to Control Cell Trafficking and Activity"*

   ![David Mooney, PhD](/sites/g/files/omnuum10026/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/hsci/files/mooneyportrait.jpg?itok=ACKuv1I-) 

 

  
Robert P. Pinkas Family Professor of Bioengineering  
The Mooney Lab: Laboratory for Cell and Tissue Engineering  
Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences  
Founding Core Faculty Member and  
Platform Lead, Programmable Nanomaterials  
Wyss Institute***Merit Cudkowicz, MD***  
*"Solving ALS: Lessons from Multiple Disciplines"*

   ![Merit Cudkowicz, MD](/sites/g/files/omnuum10026/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/hsci/files/cudkowicz_merit135x145.jpg?itok=FH46YM7X) 

 

  
Chief of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital  
Julieanne Dorn Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical SchoolThis event is open to the HSCI research community free of charge, but registration is required. Please [click here](https://hsci.formstack.com/forms/2015_hsci_retreat_registration) to register.  
  
Sorry! The deadline for submitting poster abstracts has passed!



 

 

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