Past Events

Ching-Pin Chang, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Director, Molecular and Translational Medicine
Krannert Institute of Cardiology
Indiana University School of Medicine

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Have questions about using social media in a professional setting? Unsure of whether the pros outweigh the cons? Concerned about potential pitfalls? Come join us as we discuss how researchers can use social media effectively and wisely to promote their work and their career. Learn tips and tricks for how to own the conversation about you online.

Featuring: Haley Bridger and Amanda Rayno

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Chandra Ramanathan, PhD, MBA,
Head, East Coast Innovation Center, Bayer Healthcare LLC.

]The MMS and its Committee on Women in Medicine in collaboration with the Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) Mary Horrigan Connors Center for Women’s Health and Gender Biology present the Women’s Health Forum on April 21. This year’s program, “Hormones: Do They Define Us?” features a lecture and panel on transgender health, sessions on the effects of hormones on autoimmune diseases, CVD, metabolism/weight regulation, brain and mood, and a discussion on the evolution of breast surgery by faculty from the BWH and MGH.

Also planned are networking opportunities and award presentations to Barbara L. Smith, M.D., Robert H. Young, M.D., Fatima Cody Stanford, M.D., and JoAnn E. Manson, M.D.

Course Directors:

Helen Cajigas, MD, MRO, FCAP, chair, Committee on Women in Medicine, Massachusetts Medical Society

JoAnn E. Manson, MD, DrPH, interim executive director, Connors Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Professor of Medicine and Women’s Health, Harvard Medical School

This month, researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital will face off against each other in a fun and friendly competition to see which institution has the best team of science talkers.

The team that does the best overall job of presenting their science will take home the title of rumble champions—at least until the next time we square off!

Please join us over lunch for a brainstorming session on how (PCERC) can best use its resources to help the BWH community successfully apply for and execute contracts from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). While the reauthorization is uncertain, the PCORI Trust Fund is currently funded through Sept. 30, 2019 and all projects initiated before then will be fully covered through their completion. There is no time like the present to apply for these remaining funds through PCORI’s various funding opportunities, which can range from tens of thousands dollars to over $10M!

This brainstorming session will build on the successful ideas that came about this past fall during a similar session that led to partnerships with local Qualitative Research Experts who have offered to share their expertise with the BWH community, the creation of a PCORI Grant Review Committee and monthly seminar/networking events. Yet, there is so much more that can be done so please come and share your great ideas on what we can do to help the BWH community capitalize on these remaining PCORI funds.

The Executive Committee of the Brigham Research Institute (BRI) would like to invite you to attend the Senior PI Lunch meeting from 12-1pm on Tuesday, April 11th. Lunch will be served.

The BRI’s overarching mission is to accelerate discoveries that improve human health; supporting strategies include fostering groundbreaking, interdepartmental, and interdisciplinary research, ranging from basic fundamental studies to clinical innovations. We strive to provide a clear voice (internally and externally) for the entire BWH research community, raise the profile of research at BWH, develop mission-centric collaborations with external entities and engage the scientific community in fundraising.

We need your help, as a member of our senior faculty, making sure that the BRI is working to address the needs and concerns of researchers across the institution. The Senior PI Lunch meeting will be an opportunity for principal investigators ranking Professor from across departments to meet with us, the BRI Executive Committee, and provide feedback directly. We hope you will be able to attend and to offer your ideas as to how the BRI might better help you achieve your research and professional goals.

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Lisa Henske, MD

Joseph Loscalzo, MD, PhD
“The Genomic Basis of the Placebo Effect”

Jane Leopold, MD
“Proteomic Profiling Identifies an Exercise Signature in
Patients with Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension”

The Lung Research Center at the Brigham Research Institute (BRI) cordially invites you to participate in its annual research symposium featuring Scott T. Weiss, MD, MS, Scientific Director at Partners HealthCare Personalized Medicine and Director, Respiratory, Genetic and Environmental Epidemiology Research at Channing Laboratory. The keynote address will be followed by a poster session open to lung biology researchers at Brigham. The symposium will also include a lunch with Scott Weiss, MD, MS that is open to fellows working in lung research. Please RSVP to the BRI inbox (bwhbri@partners.org) if you are interested in attending the lunch.  The goal of this event is to bring together lung clinicians and researchers at BWH, highlight the exciting research activities of the lung community at the hospital and encourage cross-collaborative research efforts.

Poster Session Information

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm, Cabot Atrium
Presenters will be required to upload their slides to the electronic poster boards in the Cabot Atrium between 11:30 am – 12:30 pm on the day of the poster session
Eligibility: Posters will be selected for display at the workshop based on the following criteria:

• Participation and eligibility will be limited to the first 25-30 (space permitting) qualified applicants and accepted on a first come, first served basi
• Researchers working in a BWH-affiliated laboratory or research group are invited to submit a poster in the field of lung biology
  • Prize eligible applicants: Researchers with an academic rank of assistant professor or below, including research and clinical fellows, nurses, residents, students, etc.
  • In order to qualify for an award, the presenting author must be in attendance at the poster session to present their research. No proxies!
  • Other applicants: Researchers with an academic rank above assistant professor may submit, but they are NOT eligible for prizes
• An individual may be the presenting author on only one abstract but may be a coauthor on multiple abstracts
• Awards will be given based on a combination of pre-event review and live judging

Submission deadline: Monday, March 20th, 12:00 pm EST

Please submit an abstract of your poster (limit: 250 words) electronically via this online submission form by 12:00 pm EST on Monday, March 20th

Click here for a printable flyer!

Chandra Ramanathan, PhD, MBA,
Head, East Coast Innovation Center, Bayer Healthcare LLC.

“Regulation of brown fat progenitor cells by insulin’s action on the vascular endothelium”
Kyoungmin Park from the George King Lab

“Aldosterone and Salt’s Effect on mTOR Signaling in the Heart”
Danielle Cullinane from the Gail Adler Lab

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Jessica Dudley, MD

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William F. Young, Jr., M. D.
Professor of Medicine
Mayo Clinic 

Please join us to learn specific hints and ideas to build successful disparities research projects. Romana Hasnain-Wynia, former Director of the Addressing Disparities Program at the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) will talk about what health disparities research is, what the different types are, and what PCORI is looking for in successful proposals. This will be followed by an interactive panel session featuring PCORI funded investigators from the Brigham who are conducting health disparities research. Afterwards, stick around for some wine and cheese and network with your colleagues.

“Microglial activation in multiple sclerosis – lessons from positron emission tomography”
Laura Airas, MD, PhD, University of Turku, Finland

The talk will describe the usability of PET imaging methodology in the study of microglial cells in MS patients in vivo. This will include discussion about assessment of microglial response to treatment in MS patients and in animal models of MS

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Lisa Henske, MD, BRI Director will provide a brief overview of the BRI, including recent accomplishments, and engage in a discussion about plans for the BRI going forward.

“Human Obesity Induces Metabolic Reprogramming In Natural Killer Cells Preventing Their Cytotoxicity Against Tumors”
Xavier Michelet, PhD from the Lynch Lab

“Targeted hydrogen peroxide metabolism and cardiovascular signal transduction”
Benjamin Steinhorn, BS from the Michel Lab

Are you looking for expert advice on the qualitative research component of your grant? If so, or if you think you may in the future, please join the Patient-Centered Comparative Effectiveness Research Center (PCERC) to hear from a panel of qualitative research experts who are available to assist with the design and execution of qualitative methods. During this interactive forum, you will have the opportunity to address questions to our panel of experts, learn more about their scientific and research backgrounds and even introduce yourself during a networking session with wine and cheese.

Featured Speakers:

Priscilla K. Gazarian Ph.D. RN
Associate Professor
School of Nursing and Health Sciences
University of Massachusetts Boston
Nurse Scientist
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Keren Ladin, PhD, MSc
Assistant Professor
Department of Occupational Therapy, Tufts University
Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine
Director, Research on Ethics, Aging, and Community Health (REACH)

Anna C. Revette, Ph.D.
Qualitative Research Manager
Department of Medical Oncology
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

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Advances in Clinical Research’ is a new seminar series that will highlight the clinical research being conducted at the Brigham. Researchers from the Channing, Pulmonary and Thoracic Surgery Divisions will present on topics such as new clinical trials, the development of new methods and the results from recent studies in addition to highlighting resources available to investigators. These seminars are intended for clinical researchers and trainees as well as clinicians, whose feedback and perspective will be greatly appreciated.

“Cdkal1, a Type 2 diabetes susceptibility ge­ne, regulates mitochondrial function”

Colin Palmer, PhD

Ofer Pasternak, PhD
Assistant Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Radiology,
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Free-water Imaging is a recent diffusion MRI technique that quantifies water molecules that are free to diffuse in the extracellular space. Eliminating free-water provides signal sensitive to changes in brain tissue itself, improving the specificity of the popular diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) method. At the same time, quantifying the amount of free-water is emerging as an important clinical marker, allowing the identification of extracellular changes that could be related to neuroinflammation and atrophy. In this talk I will present free-water imaging and its utility in separating brain tissue related and extracellular related changes in various neurodegenerative and psychiatric brain disorders, such as Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, schizophrenia and traumatic brain injuries.

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Have you heard of Partners Innovation but aren’t sure what that is? Do you know what to do when you have a discovery that you think might be patentable? Do you have questions about the new Industry Fellowship program or have any interest in learning more about intellectual property/commercialization? Are you up to speed on the market sector model? Do you know your department contact in the Partners Innovation office?

Come find out the answers to these questions and many others in this session, featuring Emy Chen, PhD, Senior Licensing Manager.

Kricket Seidman, MD

Samuel Patz, PhD

9:00 – 10:00 AM
Welcome and Open
Eric Orwoll/ Oregon Health & Science University: What have we learned from RCTs of Function Promoting Pharmacologic Therapies
Alan Jette/ BUSPH: Making Informed Choices in the Measurement of Function & Disability in Aging Research

10:00 -11:00 AM
Elena Volpi: The UTMB Pepper OAIC: Translating Discoveries in Functional Loss and Gain into Interventions for Recovery from Illness
Shalender Bhasin/ BWH/HMS: Androgen Receptor Interactome as a Locus for Discovery of Function Promoting Therapies
Basil Eldadah/ NIH Program Officer and Chief, Geriatrics: Overview of Nationwide Pepper Older Americans Independence Centers

11:00 AM – Noon
Marcia Haigis/ Paul F. Glenn Center for Biology of Aging: New Insights into Mitochondria and Aging
Amy Wagers/ Joslin Diabetes: Regulators of Aging in Mammalian Tissues

Noon – 1:00 PM
Lunch Break

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Joan Mannick/ Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research/Aging: Developing mTOR inhibitors for the treatment of aging-related conditions in elderly humans
Roger Fielding/ Tufts Jean Mayer Human Nutrition Center on Aging: Exercise as a Function Promoting Therapy

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Lew Lipsitz/ Hebrew Senior Life: Overview of Research at HSL’s Institute for Aging Research, BIDMC’s Division of Gerontology and the Boston Roybal Center

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Rapid Fire Microtalks (TBA, 5-10 minutes each)

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Wine and Cheese Reception

“Sodium Hydrogen Exchanger 1 determines atherosclerotic lesion acidification and promotes atherogenesis”

Conglin Liu, Research Fellow, Shi Lab