The Biomedical Research Response to COVID-19: A View from NIAID
NIH COVID-19 SIG Lecture Series
NIAID has a long-standing dual mandate to maintain a robust portfolio of research in its key focus areas and to respond to emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases (EIDs). With this mandate, NIAID has also sought to improve EID-response preparedness, working in partnership with other U.S. government research entities, industry, academia, and international public-health organizations. This preparedness planning helped the institute respond rapidly to COVID-19. NIAID tapped existing coronavirus expertise and other assets to stand up research programs spanning basic virology and immunology ...
Source: Videocast - All Events - April 13, 2020 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Early-Stage Investigator Lecture: Scaling up HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis to End the HIV Epidemic
ODP 2020 Early-Stage Investigator Lecture
Daily oral HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, is up to 99% effective in preventing HIV transmission and has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration since 2012. However, of the 1.2 million Americans who could benefit from PrEP, less than 20% have used it, and there are substantial racial and ethnic disparities in uptake. Scale-up of PrEP is a critical component of the federal initiative to end the HIV epidemic, but achieving this goal will require effective strategies to improve PrEP implementation. In this presentation, Dr. Marcus will discuss her research on strategi...
Source: Videocast - All Events - March 9, 2020 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Early-Stage Investigator Lecture: Scaling up HIV Preexposure Prophylaxis to End the HIV Epidemic
ODP 2020 Early-Stage Investigator Lecture
Daily oral HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, is up to 99% effective in preventing HIV transmission and has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) since 2012. However, of the 1.2 million Americans who could benefit from PrEP, less than 20% have used it, and there are substantial racial and ethnic disparities in uptake. Scale-up of PrEP is a critical component of the federal initiative to end the HIV epidemic, but achieving this goal will require effective strategies to improve PrEP implementation. In this presentation, Dr. Marcus will discuss her research on st...
Source: Videocast - All Events - February 28, 2020 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
A Myth of Convenience: The Law Lag and Scientific Progress
NIMH Director ’ s Innovation Speaker Series
For the fourteenth year, the National Institute of Mental Health is pleased to invite you to attend the fourth of a series of lectures dedicated to innovation, invention, and scientific discovery.
Sheila Jasanoff is Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She is affiliated with the Department of the History of Science and Harvard Law School. Previously, she was Professor of Science Policy and Law at Cornell U niversity and founding chair of Cornell ’ s Department of Science and Technology Stu...
Source: Videocast - All Events - January 13, 2020 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Exercise programs look to play a larger role in cardiac care
Amy Bantham, DrPH candidate at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, describes translating her research on physician-prescribed exercise referral programs for cardiac rehabilitation into real-world solutions. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - December 18, 2019 Category: Information Technology Tags: Telehealth Source Type: video
Droplets ejected by airborne ultrasounds
To eject droplets, acoustophoretic printing utilizes airborne ultrasounds that are essentially material independent. Even liquid metal can be easily printed.
[Research supported in part by National Science Foundation (grant DMR 1420570) through the Harvard Materials Research Science and ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - December 5, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: video
How space flight affects the muscular skeletal system
Mary L. Bouxsein, professor of orthopedic surgery at Harvard Medical School, discusses how to maintain the muscular skeletal system in long-duration space flights such as a mission to Mars. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - November 15, 2019 Category: Information Technology Tags: Population Health Quality and Safety Source Type: video
Informing Health Policy through Science to Improve Healthcare for Older Adults
NINR Director's Lecture
Patricia W. Stone, PhD, RN, FAAN is the Centennial Professor in Health Policy at Columbia University School of Nursing. She earned a PhD from the University of Rochester and completed post-doctoral training at Harvard University. Dr. Stone ’ s research aims to enhance the quality of care for older adults including preventing healthcare-associated infection and improving infection management and end-of-life care. Her program of research has contributed to policy changes, such as state and federal legislative mandates that hospitals report infections. Dr. Stone ’ s passion is teaching the next gen...
Source: Videocast - All Events - November 14, 2019 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
A patient-scientist ’ s road toward primary prevention in genetic prion disease
NIH Director's Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series
In 2010, Sonia Vallabh watched her 52 year old mother die of a rapid, mysterious, undiagnosed neurodegenerative disease. One year later, Sonia learned that her mother's disease had been genetic prion disease, and that she herself had inherited the causal mutation, making it very likely she would suffer the same fate in 20 years' time. There was no prevention, treatment, or cure available. Despite having no prior training in biology, Sonia and her husband Eric Minikel set out to re-train themselves as scientists and devote their lives to searching for a treatment or cure for...
Source: Videocast - All Events - October 10, 2019 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Bad deeds go unpunished: the vacuole guard hypothesis and pathogen intracellular growth
NIH Director ’ s Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series
Ralph Isberg has been a Professor of Molecular Biology and Microbiology at Tufts University School of Medicine for 32 years. After receiving an undergraduate degree at Oberlin College, he obtained his PhD at Harvard working on transposable genetic elements in bacteria. Throughout his career at Tufts he has primarily focused on the pathogenesis of Legionella pneumophila and enteropathogenic Yersinia, and has recently initiated projects on tackling drug resistance in nosocomial organisms. His research highlights include the identification of proteins involved in uptake of...
Source: Videocast - All Events - October 10, 2019 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Therapeutic Interventions and Resistance Mechanisms
The HIV Dynamics and Replication Program (HIV DRP), Center for Cancer Research, NCI is organizing this conference to showcase the latest findings in the broad field of drug resistance in the context of infectious agents and cancer. An in-depth discussion of recent progress in our understanding of resistance mechanisms should lead to new insights into the development of more effective therapeutic interventions, which will aid international public health efforts.
Confirmed speakers in this outstanding program include Silvia Bertagnolio (World Health Organization), Eric Freed (HIV DRP, NCI), Yoshihiro Kawaoka (University of T...
Source: Videocast - All Events - August 8, 2019 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Termite mounds in Namibia inspire energy-efficient buildings
Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) are engaged in fieldwork across the globe, advancing knowledge of the natural world and developing solutions to global challenges. In Namibia, SEAS researchers are studying how termite mounds could ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - August 7, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: video
Integrative Omics Approaches to Identify New Therapeutic Cancer Targets
CCR Grand Rounds
Kimberly Stegmaier, M.D., Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and the Ted Williams Chair at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, has advanced the application of genomics to drug and protein target discovery for pediatric cancers. She is the Vice Chair for Pediatric Oncology Research, co-director of the Pediatric Hematologic Malignancy Program and an attending physician providing clinical care in Pediatric Oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Boston Children ’ s Hospital. Dr. Stegmaier is also an Institute Member of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. She has served as a Council Mem...
Source: Videocast - All Events - June 17, 2019 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Why don't we get more cancer: The importance of ECM Chromatin interactions in tissue-specificity and breast cancer
CCR Grand Rounds
Mina J. Bissel, Ph.D., is a Distinguished Scientist, the highest rank bestowed at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and serves as Senior Advisor to the Laboratory Director on Biology. She is also Faculty of four Graduate Groups in UC Berkeley: Comparative Biochemistry, Endocrinology, Molecular Toxicology, and Bioengineering (UCSF/UCB joint program). Having challenged several established paradigms, Bissell is a pioneer in breast cancer research and her body of work has provided much impetus for the current recognition of the significant role that extracellular matrix (ECM) signaling and microenvi...
Source: Videocast - All Events - June 3, 2019 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Getting to " Right " : A Blueprint for the Adjudication of Emerging Reproductive Technologies
The former Dean of Medicine and Biological Sciences at Brown University (during its 2007 renaming in honor of Mr. Warren Alpert), Dr. Adashi is an academic physician-executive, a graduate of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health program in Health Care Management (MS, 2005), and the former president of the Society for Reproductive Endocrinologists (SRE), the Society for Gynecologic Investigation (SGI), and the American Gynecological and Obstetrical Society (AGOS). As a tenured Professor of Medical Science at Brown University, Dr. Adashi is a member of the Brown Center for Prisoner Health and Human Rights and directs...
Source: Videocast - All Events - May 28, 2019 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
