UCSD Physician-Scientist Colloquium
  Wednesday, September 20th in the Leichtag Auditorium (Room 107)

         5:30 - 6:15 P.M.   Hors d'Oeuvres & Social Hour                  
6:15 - 6:45 P.M.   Biomedical Magazine Review Club      
      6:45 - 7:15 P.M    Career Perspectives of a Physician-Scientist
      7:15 - 7:30 P.M    Closing Comments                           


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Biomedical Magazine Review
 Articles for Discussion

Ajit Varki, M.D.
Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Cellular & Molecular Medicine
Associate Dean for Physician-Scientist Training
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 		"Cytokine Storm in a Phase 1 Trial of the Anti-CD28 Monoclonal Antibody TGN1412," Suntharalingam et al. NEJM 2006:355
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Career Perspectives Speaker
 Academic Interests

Judith Swain, M.D.
Founding Dean for Translational Research and Professor of Medicine at UCSD School of Medicine

 Founding Executive Director of the Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences (SICS)
Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
Genetic basis of cardiovascular development and disease.  Role of growth factors in angiogenesis.  Research program development and interdisciplinary collaboration across the continuum of discovery, development and patient care.

Closing Comments
 Academic Interests

Edward Holmes, M.D.
Vice-Chancellor for Health Sciences
Dean, UCSD School of Medicine
     
Executive Deputy Chairman-Elect
Clinical Translational Sciences
Biomedical Research Council and
Lien Ying Chow Professor of Medicine
Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
National University of Singapore

Biochemistry, molecular biology and genetics of metabolic disease; pathophysiology underlying AMP deaminase deficiency and its link to congestive heart failure;  the interface between basic science and clinical molecular medicine.