UCSD Physician-Scientist Colloquium
  Monday, August 20th, 2007 – the Leichtag Auditorium (Room 107)

          5:30 - 6:15 P.M.   Hors d'Oeuvres & Social Time                 
6:30 - 7:00 P.M.   Scientific Program                 
    
"Physician Scientist in Biotechnology:
Paving the Highway to Money, to Molecules, to Mankind"

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Alain Baron, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCSD
&
Senior Vice President of Research
Amylin Pharmaceuticals

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 		Diabetes and vascular disease.  Drug discovery and validation, with special focus on novel approaches to therapy of type II diabetes, obesity and other endocrine/metabolic disorders.

Jerrold Olefsky, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Chief, Division of Endocrinology & Metabolism
Associate Dean for Scientific Affairs, UCSD

Link to Website		 Transmembrane signaling events mediated by insulin, IGF-I and growth factors. Structure/function relationships of hormone sreceptors and relevant downstream signaling molecules. How abnormal insulin action relates to the pathogenesis of diabetes mellitus.
Dr. Raz
Eyal Raz, M.D.
 Professor of Medicine
Division of Rheumatology
UCSD School of Medicine
&
Founder, Dynavax Technologies

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 Innate immunity and host-pathogen interaction. TLR and non-TLR activation pathways for recognition and response to microbial agents. Antigen presentation by dendritic cells and its impact on priming of naïve CD4 and CD8 T cells and generation of memory T cell responses.