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Past Agenda

Catalyzing Collaboration
between
Industry and Academia in the Life Sciences

Women’s Health Medicine – Part I: Therapeutic Strategies:
Platform and Specific Approaches to Uterine and Ovarian Pathology

Friday, June 15, 2007
8:00AM – 5:10PM CST
Illinois Science + Technology Park
4901 Searle Parkway
Skokie, IL 60077

*8:00 – 8:30AM*	Registration and Continental Breakfast – Atrium Lobby, Auditorium
*8:30 – 8:45AM*	Opening Remarks & Welcome Michael Rosen for Forest City Brief Overview: History and Goals of the Symposium Ron Kirschner, M.D., President, Heartland Angels
*8:45 – 9:10AM*	Keynote Speaker Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Human Papillomavirus Infection (HPV): The most common sexually transmitted disease in the U.S.A. Patricio I. Meneses Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science
*9:10 – 10:00AM*	Abstract Group A
	Feasibility of ultrasonographic evaluation of ovarian tumors in laying hen, a spontaneous model of human ovarian cancer Jacque S. Abramowicz, Rush University Non-invasive methods for the diagnosis of endometriosis Asgerally T. Fazleabas, University of Illinois at Chicago
*10:00 – 10:20AM*	Break – Atrium
*10:20 – 10:50AM*	Keynote Speaker Nanotechnology and Ovarian Cancer Screening Jocob Rotmensch Rush University
*10:50 – 11:00AM*	Move to Roundtables
*11:00 – 11:55AM*	Series A: Roundtables 1 and 2 (running concurrently) Roundtable 1: Jocob Rotmensch, Rush University, Moderator Topic: Ovarian Cancer Screening Roundtable 2: Patricio I. Meneses, Moderator Topic: Papillomavirus
*12:00 – 1:00PM*	Lunch
*1:00 – 1:30PM*	Keynote Speaker Biomarkers development for clinical trials and tailored therapies Sunil Kadam Ell Lilly and Co.
*1:30 – 2:20PM*	Abstract Group B
	Repurposing compounds to treat reproductive system disorders with unmet medical needs. Thomas A. Collet, Meditrina Pharmaceuticals, Inc A cross genotype neutralization of PV infection based on a peptide. Patricio I. Meneses, Rosalind Franklin University
*2:20 – 3:10PM*	Abstract Group C
	Reduction of Postoperative Adhesions Michael P. Diamond, Wayne State University Biomarker development for clinical implementation: a parts list for testing feasibility, validation and outsourcing Sunil Kadam, Ell Lilly and Co
*3:10 – 3:25PM*	Break – Atrium and Move to Roundtables
*3:25 – 4:15PM*	Series B: Roundtables 1 and 2(running concurrently) Roundtable 1: Sunil Kadam, Moderator Topic: Biomarkers development for clinical trials and tailored therapies Roundtable 2: Thomas A. Collet, Moderator Topic: Endometriosis and Adhesions
*4:15 – 5:10PM*	Future Directions and Ways to Connect: Panel and Audience Interaction
*5:10 –?*	Networking: Connecting and Re-connecting – Atrium

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