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Keypoint Newsletter- December 2022
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Program Consultants are assembled to provide additional review and expertise for our conference portfolio. Leading scientists across disciplines work to identify possible meeting topics and organizers for future Keystone Symposia meetings. These scientific experts guide program development toward new, forward-looking meeting topics that hold great promise to benefit society, while also maintaining strong scientific foundations.
John Albeck, Ph.D.
              Associate Professor
              
              University of California, Davis
              
Laura C. Alonso, M.D.
Weill Cornell Medicine
Mark L. Andermann, Ph.D.
              Professor of Medicine
              
              Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
              
Irina Arkhipova, Ph.D.
              Senior Scientist
              
              Marine Biological Laboratory
              
Uttiya Basu, Ph.D.
              Professor
              
              Columbia University
              
Nigel Beaton, Ph.D.
              Scientific Director
              
              Biognosys
              
Steffany A.L. Bennett, Ph.D.
              Professor
              
              University of Ottawa
              
Christoph J. Binder, M.D., Ph.D.
              Professor
              
              Medical University of Vienna
              
Dusan Bogunovic, Ph.D.
Columbia University
Adrian P. Bracken, Ph.D.
              Professor
              
              Trinity College Dublin
              
Dennis R. Burton, Ph.D.
              Professor
              
              The Scripps Research Institute
              
Lisa H. Butterfield, Ph.D.
              Distinguished Scientist
              
              Merck
              
Sharon B. Cantor, Ph.D.
              Professor and Chair of Oncology
              
              University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
              
Giacomo Cavalli
Institute of Human Genetics
Daniel S. Chen, M.D., Ph.D.
Engenuity Life Sciences
Hongbo Chi, Ph.D.
              Member
              
              St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
              
Dipanjan Chowdhury, Ph.D.
              Associate Professor
              
              Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School
              
Wendy K. Chung, M.D., Ph.D.
              Professor
              
              Columbia University
              
Tim Clausen, Ph.D.
Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, IMP
Maria Carmen Collado, Ph.D.
              Researcher
              
              Institute of Agrochemistry and Food Technology-Spanish National Research Council
              
Jamaine S. Davis, Ph.D.
              Assistant Professor
              
              Meharry Medical College
              
Brian M. Davis, Ph.D.
              Professor, Neurobiology
              
              University of Pittsburgh
              
Jonathan A. Deane, Ph.D.
              Senior Director and Head of Biology
              
              Trotana Therapeutics, Inc.
              
Ralph J. DeBerardinis, M.D., Ph.D.
              Associate Professor
              
              University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
              
Greg M. Delgoffe, Ph.D.
              Professor
              
              University of Pittsburgh
              
Anna Di Nardo, M.D., Ph.D.
              Associate Professor
              
              University of California, San Diego
              
Gilbert Di Paolo, Ph.D.
              Distinguished Scientist and Executive Director
              
              Denali Therapeutics Inc.
              
David A. Fidock, Ph.D.
              Professor
              
              Columbia University Medical Center
              
Rachel Freathy, Ph.D.
              Senior Research Fellow
              
              University of Exeter
              
Wendy V. Gilbert, Ph.D.
              Associate Professor
              
              Yale University
              
Roger Greenberg, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania
Kevin Grove, B.S., Ph.D.
              Venture Partner
              
              Versant Ventures
              
Martin Guilliams, Ph.D.
Ghent University - VIB
Aylin C. Hanyaloglu, Ph.D.
              Reader in Cell Biology
              
              Imperial College London
              
Curtis J. Henry, Ph.D.
              Deputy Associate Director of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Access
              
              University of Colorado Cancer Center
              
Andrew Hill, Ph.D.
              Professor
              
              Victoria University
              
Hailan Hu
Zhejiang University School of Medicine
David P. Humphreys, Ph.D.
              Executive Director
              
              UCB Pharma
              
Sun Hur, Ph.D.
              Professor
              
              Harvard Medical School
              
Birte Höcker
University of Bayreuth
Amanda Marie James, Ph.D.
              Assistant Director of IMSD Program / Instructor of Biochemistry
              
              Emory University
              
Nikhil S. Joshi, Ph.D.
              Associate Professor
              
              Yale University School of Medicine
              
Shingo Kajimura, Ph.D.
              Associate Professor
              
              Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
              
Roger D. Kamm, M.D., Ph.D.
              Professor
              
              Massachusetts Institute of Technology
              
Anne G. Kasmar, M.D.
              SVP & Global Therapeutic Area Head — Infectious Diseases & Vaccines
              
              Parexel
              
Tobias R. Kollmann, M.D., Ph.D.
              Professor
              
              Telethon Kids Institute
              
Orly Lazarov, Ph.D.
              Associate Professor
              
              University of Illinois at Chicago
              
Haobo Li, Ph.D.
              Research Scholar
              
              Massachusetts General Hospital
              
Jin Billy Li, Ph.D.
              Professor
              
              Stanford University
              
Jennie R. Lill, Ph.D.
              Executive Director
              
              Genentech, Inc.
              
Merry L. Lindsey, Ph.D.
              Dean
              
              Meharry Medical Center
              
Andrea I. Loewendorf, Ph.D.
              CEO
              
              ImmunoVation, LLC
              
Amanda Lund, Ph.D.
              Associate Professor
              
              New York University
              
Alex Marson, M.D., Ph.D.
              Associate Professor
              
              Gladstone Institutes, University of California, San Francisco
              
Sascha Martens, Ph.D.
              Professor
              
              University of Vienna
              
Ivan Martinez, Ph.D.
              Associate Professor
              
              West Virginia University
              
Marcela V. Maus, M.D., Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School
Ira Mellman, Ph.D.
              Chief Scientific Officer
              
              Medici Therapeutics
              
C. Jessica Metcalf, Ph.D.
Princeton University
Irene Miguel-Aliaga, Ph.D.
              Principal Group Leader
              
              Francis Crick Institute
              
Benjamin F. Miller, Ph.D.
              Member (Professor)
              
              Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
              
Dennis Montoya, Ph.D.
              Assistant Researcher
              
              University of California, Davis
              
Elizabeth Murphy, Ph.D.
              Senior Investigator
              
              Cardiac Physiology Section Vascular Medicine Branch, NHLBI, NIH
              
Martin G. Myers, Jr., M.D., Ph.D.
              Professor
              
              University of Michigan
              
Mihai G. Netea, M.D.
              Prof.Dr.
              
              Radboud University
              
Ralph A. Nixon, M.D., Ph.D.
              Professor and Director
              
              New York University, Langone Medical Center
              
Venizelos Papayannopoulos, Ph.D.
Francis Crick Institute
Lori A. Passmore, Ph.D.
              Programme Leader
              
              MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
              
Ardem Patapoutian, Ph.D.
              Professor, HHMI Investigator
              
              The Scripps Research Institute
              
Stanley Perlman, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Iowa
John Prensner, M.D., Ph.D.
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Joshua D. Rabinowitz, M.D., Ph.D.
              Professor
              
              Princeton University
              
Zaida G. Ramirez Ortiz, Ph.D.
              Assistant Professor
              
              University of Massachusetts Medical School
              
Martín M. Riccomagno, Ph.D.
              Assistant Professor
              
              University of California, Riverside
              
Kathryn Richmond, Ph.D.
              Director
              
              Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group
              
Fatima Rivas, Ph.D.
              Assistant Professor of Chemistry
              
              Louisiana State University
              
Rachel J. Roth Flach, Ph.D.
              Senior Principal Scientist
              
              Pfizer Inc.
              
Jared Rutter, Ph.D.
University of Utah
Alan R. Saltiel, Ph.D.
              Professor and Director
              
              University of California, San Diego
              
Camilla C. Schéele, Ph.D.
              Associate Professor
              
              University of Copenhagen
              
Christine E. Seidman, M.D.
              Thomas W. Smith Prof of Medicine and Genetics
              
              Harvard Medical School
              
Seung-Yong Seong, M.D., Ph.D.
Seoul National University
Laura Sepp-Lorenzino, Ph.D.
              Executive Vice President, Chief Scientific Officer
              
              Intellia Therapeutics
              
Feng Shao, Ph.D.
              Investigator
              
              National Institute of Biological Sciences
              
Alphonse E. Sirica, Ph.D.
              Professor Emeritus and Distinguished Career Professor
              
              Virginia Commonwealth University
              
Frank J. Slack, Ph.D.
              Director, Institute for RNA Medicine
              
              BIDMC Cancer Center/Harvard Medical School
              
Cecilia Sorensen, M.D.
Columbia University
David R. Soto-Pantoja
              Associate Professor
              
              Wake Forest School of Medicine
              
Greg Steinberg, Ph.D.
              Professor
              
              McMaster University
              
Scott M. Sternson, Ph.D.
              Professor, HHMI Investigator
              
              University of California, San Diego
              
Sheila A. Stewart, Ph.D.
              Professor
              
              Washington University School of Medicine
              
Lisa Stowers, Ph.D.
The Scripps Research
Elly M. Tanaka, Ph.D.
              Senior Scientist
              
              IMP - Research Institute of Molecular Pathology
              
Paul G. Thomas, Ph.D.
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Nicolas H. Thomä, Ph.D.
               Full Professor Paternot Chair in Cancer Research
              
              EPFL Lausanne
              
Clotilde Théry, Ph.D.
              Team Leader & Scientific Director
              
              Institut Curie
              
Kai-Michael Toellner, Ph.D.
              Senior Group Leader
              
              Babraham Institute
              
James Trevaskis, Ph.D.
Eli Lilly
Li-Huei Tsai, Ph.D.
              Director, The Picower Institute for Learning & Memory
              
              Massachusetts Institute of Technology
              
James A. Wells, Ph.D.
              Professor 
              
              University of California, San Francisco
              
Stephan Wenkel, Ph.D.
University of Copenhagen
Sean M. Wu, M.D., Ph.D.
              Associate Director
              
              Stanford School of Medicine
              
Wolfram H. Zimmermann, M.D.
              Professor and Director
              
              University Medical Center Göttingen
              
Dec 8, 2022 by Shannon Weiman
Welcome to the Keypoint Newsletter, bringing you all the latest news & views from Keystone Symposia!
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