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Northeast Regional Chapter Annual Meeting Addresses "Biologics—Past, Present, and Future"
Submitted by Jessica E. Sutherland, President, NESOT
On October 24th, the Annual Meeting of the SOT Northeast Regional Chapter (NESOT) was held at Charles River Laboratories in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. Attendance was very strong; 125 people registered for the meeting. The theme was "Biologics—Past, Present, and Future."
As is traditional at the NESOT Annual Meeting, the first speaker was the first place winner of the 2007 Student Poster Award. Meeghan O'Connor, from the University of Connecticut, presented "Identification of Genes that may Contribute to Development of Resistance to Hepatotoxicity." Laura Andrews, from Genzyme Corporation, presented: "Where Have We Been and What Have We Learned from the Past 26 Years of Biologic Drug Development…I Miss Back When…" Christina Gamba-Vitalo, Alnylam Phamaceuticals, followed with her presentation entitled, "Progress in Developing siRNAs as Drugs." Tim MacLachlan, Genzyme Pharmaceuticals, presented: "Gene Therapy…Where Are We Today…and How Did We Get Here??" The
keynote speaker was David Jacobson-Kram, from the Office of New Drugs, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research at Food and Drug Administration. His presentation, "Preclinical Development of Biologics: Case-by-Case, So Get Off of My Case!" provided an excellent wrap-up to the meeting's theme.
The Annual Meeting concluded with a Poster Session that featured 31 presentations and a Student Poster Award Competition. First place was awarded to Xinyuan Yu of the University of Rhode Island for his poster "Cadmium-Induced Proliferation of Breast Cancer Cells is Mediated by GPR30." Second place was presented to Natasha Caitlin of Salve Regina University for her poster "Pyrethroid Inhibition of the Mammalian T-type Voltage Sensitive Calcium Channel (CaV3.2)." Third place went to Gregory Marusov of the University of Connecticut for his poster "Metallothionein Expression Affects the Functional Immune Response of Murine Macrophages."
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