Deadline Today: 8th Annual Wisconsin Stem Cell Symposium Posters
Sue Gilbert
Another reminder that the deadline for posters is Friday, March 22 (that's this Friday)!!!! Please consider entering a poster and doing it soon!
Cheers-
SueDear Students, Postdoctoral Fellows, and Faculty,
I am delighted to announce the Poster Contest at the 8th Annual Wisconsin Stem Cell Symposium, Cell-Based Therapy for Heart and Vascular Disease: Pathways to Clinic. The Symposium will be held on April 10, 2013 at the BioPharmaceutical Technology Center, located on the Promega Corporation campus in Madison/Fitchburg. I strongly encourage graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to take advantage of this wonderful opportunity and share your work with colleagues and an outstanding group of visiting scientists.
Here is how the contest works.
(1) To be considered for the contest, your abstract must be received by Friday, March 22, 2013.
(2) For all accepted posters, registration fees will be waived for first authors who are graduate students or post-doctoral researchers in academic institutions.
(3) The Poster Review Committee will select 10 posters for final judging at the Symposium.
(4) Three prizes will be awarded: 1st Place: $500; 2nd Place: $300; 3rd Place: $200.
(5) The winners will be recognized in the afternoon session of the Symposium.
(6) Detailed instruction about abstract submission and poster presentation can be found at http://www.btci.org/stemcell/2013/PosterContest2013.html.
Please contact Dr. Karin Borgh, Executive Director, BioPharmaceutical Technology Center Institute (BTCI) (karin...@btci.org) or myself (li...@surgery.wisc.edu) for questions.
Bo Liu, Ph.D., Association Professor, Department of Surgery
REGISTRATION FEE: $90; discounted to $45 for students and post-doctoral researchers
POSTER CONTEST
- 30 posters will be accepted. To be considered for the contest, your abstract must be received by Wednesday, March 22, 2013.
- Symposium registration and fee payment are also required for participation. NOTE: For accepted posters, registration fees will be waived for first authors who are graduate students or post-doctoral researchers in academic institutions.
- After that deadline, if 30 abstracts have not yet been approved, the Poster Review Committee will review and accept posters until that total is reached. However, abstracts received after that date will not be contest eligible.
- The Poster Review Committee will select 10 posters for final judging at the Symposium.
- Three prizes will be awarded: 1st Place: $500; 2nd Place: $300; 3rd Place: $200.
- The winners will be recognized in the afternoon session of the Symposium.
- For more details, please visit:
http://www.btci.org/stemcell/2013/PosterContest2013.html
FEATURED SPEAKERS
- Brian H. Annex, M.D., Ph.D. (Professor, Medicine and Biomedical Engineering; Division Chief, Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA)
- Tara Clark (General Manager, NA Clinical Operations, Miltenyi Biotec Incorporated, Auburn, CA)
- Robert Deans, Ph.D. (Executive Vice President, Regenerative Medicine, Athersys, Inc., Cleveland, OH)
- Andrea Hunt (Vice President, Regenerative Medicine, Baxter Healthcare, Deerfield, IL)
- Annarosa Leri, M.D. (Associate Professor of Anaesthesia, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA)
- Brenda Ogle, Ph.D. (Associate Chair of Graduate Admissions and Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI)
- Amit Patel, M.D., M.S. (Director of Cardiovascular Regenerative Medicine, Associate Professor of Surgery, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT)
- Shahin Rafii, Ph.D. (Shahin Rafii, M.D. Arthur B. Belfer Professor of Genetic and Regenerative Medicine; Co-Director, Ansary Stem Cell Institute and Tri-SCI Stem Cell Center; Investigator, HHMI,Weil Cornell Medical College, New York, NY)
- Amish Raval, M.D. (Assistant Professor, Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI)
- Warren Sherman, M.D. (Director, Cardiac Cell-Based Endovascular Therapies, Columbia University Medical Center / New York-Presbyterian Hospital; Associate Professor, Clinical Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY)
- Sharon Watling, Pharm.D. (Vice President, Clinical Development, Aastrom Biosciences, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI)
Karin Borgh
BioPharmaceutical Technology Center Institute
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Sue Gilbert
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