Announcement

Call for Participation

Topic: Cardiovascular Medicine: Part I - Heart arrhythmias, heart failure, and related thrombosis risks

Date:  Friday, October 12, 2007

Location:  Loyola University, Maywood, IL

Become part of an on-going forum to bring life science researchers from universities and companies together to exchange ideas, discuss challenges, and explore potential collaborations to promote commercialization.  At this forum, you will address problems that need solving and explore opportunities to move research from the bench to the bedside and for the greater public good. 

This forum is the Fourth in a series of collaborations between Midwest area universities and pharmaceutical firms. The forum provides a unique combination of presentations, roundtable discussions, and networking.

Faculty members active in areas pertaining to this topic are invited to submit an abstract of their work of no more than 250 words. Criteria for consideration will include:

• stage of development of the research -- 20%
• relevance to the treatment or cure of diseases -- 40%
• commercial impact -- 40%

Research must fall into at least one of the following areas as it relates to Cardiovascular Medicine:

1. Clinical Therapeutic Applications,
2. New Research Methodologies, or
3. Platform Technologies.

Posters of research for review should also be submitted according to the schedule below presented.

according to the following time line:

Break new ground with an innovative means of bringing industry and academia closer together.  If you have any questions, please contact Matt Raymond of Rush University at 312-563-2780.