Translational Research Day 2021

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Translational Research Across the Spectrum

Interested in learning about how research that spans translational phases leads to discoveries like the COVID-19 vaccines? Mark your calendar for Translational Research Day 2021:

Tuesday, April 27
9:00AM-3:00PM
Online via Zoom

Registration

Please register here to attend.

Keynote

The keynote address will be given by John R. Mascola, MD, Director of the Dale and Betty Bumpers Vaccine Research Center (VRC) at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH). Dr. Mascola will highlight the scientific discoveries that laid the foundation for rapid COVID-19 vaccine development.

Agenda

• 9:00-9:15AM: Welcoming remarks
  • Harry Selker, MD, MSPH
    Dean and Principal Investigator, Tufts CTSI; Executive Director, Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies, Tufts Medical Center
• 9:15-10:00AM: Keynote address:
  • John R. Mascola, MD
    Director of the Dale and Betty Bumpers Vaccine Research Center (VRC) at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH)
    Rapid Response to a Novel Pathogen: COVID-19 Vaccine Development
• 10:00-10:05AM: Break
• 10;05AM-noon: Plenary: Scientific talks
  • Session Chair Part 1: Jonathan M. Davis, MD (Tufts CTSI)
    Matthew Goodwin, PhD, MA (Northeastern University)
    Predicting Challenging Behavior in Minimally-Verbal Youth with Autism Using Wearable Biosensor Data and Machine Learning Classifiers
    
    Micha Feigin, PhD, MS (MIT)
    Realtime Functional Muscle Imaging
    
    Dana M. Cairns, PhD (Tufts University), Dorothy Dulko, PhD (Tufts Medical Center), Yoav Golan, MD, MS, FIDSA (Tufts University), and Jeffrey K. Griffiths, MD, MPH (Tufts University)
    Team Niclosamide: From Treating Microcephaly in Chickens to Treating COVID-19 Patients
  • Session Chair Part 2: Debra Lerner, MS, PhD (Tufts CTSI)
    Lori Frank, PhD, MA (RAND Corp)
    Decision Making about Health Care Resources in a Pandemic (co-author Thomas W. Concannon, PhD)
    
    Peter Levine, PhD (Tufts University) and Wenhui Feng, PhD, MPP (Tufts University)
    Transforming Science, the Public and Policymakers: A Nationally Representative COVID-19 Survey
• noon-12:30PM: Lunch break
• 12:30PM-2:00PM: Concurrent breakout sessions
  • Jonathan Garlick, DDS, PhD
    Director of Science Communications, Tufts CTSI; Director, Tufts Initiative In Civic Science; Professor, School of Dental Medicine, School of Medicine, School of Engineering, Tufts University
    Building Trustworthiness and Vaccine Confidence through Dialogue in COVID-19-vulnerable Communities
  • Kinna Thakarar, DO, MPH
    Assistant Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine; Attending Physician, Maine Medical Center
    Improving Discharge Decision-making among Vulnerable Hospitalized Patients
    
• 2:00-2:05PM: Break
• 2:05-2:45PM: Plenary: Report-out and next steps
  • Alice Rushforth, PhD
    Executive Director, Tufts CTSI
• 2:45-3:00PM: Closing Remarks
  • Harry Selker, MD, MSPH

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