2025 BIDMC Research Retreat Scientific Program

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Activity

Check-In & Poster Check-In & Breakfast (Grand Lobby) 

ePoster Session 1 (Grand Lobby & Pechet Room)

New Faculty Flash Talks (Amphitheater)

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• "Hochbaum Lab: Mechanisms Coordinating Brain and Body", Daniel Hochbaum, PhD (Department – Medicine: Endocrinology)
• "An Attenuated Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis Virus (LCMV) Vector Enhances Tumor Control in Mice via IFN-I", Pablo Penaloza, PhD (Department – Medicine: Virology & Vaccine Research)
• "Intron Retention and Proteotoxicity: 'Chicken and Egg' in Alzheimer’s Disease?", Chenxi Qiu, PhD (Department – Neurology)
• "Imaging Demyelination in Multiple Sclerosis", Nara Michaelson, MD (Department – Neurology)
• "Mechanisms of Metastasis -The role of the Integrated Stress Response", Elena Piskounova, PhD (Department – Pathology)
• "Cancer Fitness and Therapeutic Mechanisms Through an Epigenetic Lens", Jingyi Wu, PhD (Department – Medicine: Genetics)
• "Clearing Brain Waste by Stimulating Brain Lymphatics", Young-Kwon Hong, PhD (Department – Surgery: Vascular Biology)
• "C1-inhibitor and VTE risk", Steven Grover, PhD (Department – Medicine: Hemostasis & Thrombosis)

ePoster Session 2 (Grand Lobby & Pechet Room)

Morning Keynote:  "Toward Affordable Protein, Gene, Cell & Organ Therapies", George Church, PhD (Amphitheater)

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Lunch (Lunch items will be available 12:00-1:15 pm) (Grand Lobby & Pechet Room)

ePoster Sessions 3 (Grand Lobby & Pechet Room)

Afternoon Keynote: "New Insights into Insulin Action and Insulin Resistance: From Molecules to Human Disease", Ronald Kahn, MD (Amphitheater)

Joslin and BIDMC: A Journey of Collaborative Excellence (Amphitheater)

Special Honored Guest:

• Harold F. Dvorak, MD
  Professor Emeritus of Pathology, HMS
  Founding Director, Center for Vascular Biology Research at BIDMC
  Co-founder & Head of Scientific Advisory Board, Angiex

Speakers:

• George L. King, MD
  Director of Research, Senior Vice President, and Head of the Section on Vascular Cell Biology at Joslin Diabetes Center
• Connie W. Tsao, MD, MPH
  Assistant Professor of Medicine, BIDMC
• Barbara B. Kahn, MD
  George R. Minot Professor of Medicine
  Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, BIDMC

• Concurrent Session 1: Breakthroughs and Cutting-Edge Research at BIDMC, Highlighting Key Advances in Immunology (Bray)
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  Moderators: 
  Barbara Wegiel, PhD, DSc, and Maria Serena Longhi, MD, PhD
  Speakers: 
  Joji Fujisaki, MD, PhD | Vicki Boussiotis, MD, PhD | Sizun Jiang, PhD

• Concurrent session 2: Breakthroughs and Cutting-Edge Research at BIDMC, Highlighting Key Advances in Neuroscience (Amphitheater)
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  Moderators: 
  Veronica VanderHorst, MD, and Hsueh-Sheng Chiang, MD, PhD
  Speakers: 
  Recep Ozdemir, PhD | Maria Mavrikaki, PhD | Hanneke Verstegen, PhD

• Concurrent Session 3: Breakthroughs and Cutting-Edge Research at BIDMC, Highlighting Key Advances in Cancer (2^nd Floor Room # 217)
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  Moderators: 
  Jacalyn Rosenblatt, MD, and Bruno Bockorny, MD
  Speakers: 
  Alex Toker, PhD | Peter Tsvetkov, PhD | Giulia Cheloni, PhD | Andrea Bullock, MD

• Concurrent Session 4: Breakthroughs and Cutting-Edge Research at BIDMC, Highlighting Key Advances in Community-Based Clinical Research/Epidemiology (Rotunda)
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  Moderators: 
  Martina Porter, MD, and Elysia Larson, ScD
  Speakers: 
  Anna Modest, PhD, MPH | Dhruv Kazi, MD | Kelly Graham, MD, MPH

4^th Pitch It! Competition (Amphitheater)

Speakers:

• "GalNAc-siRNA Conjugates Against a Novel, Genetically-Validated Target for Chronic Liver Disease", Aaron Hakim, MD
• "RNA Therapeutics Targeting POGK in Cancer", Antoine E. Karnoub, PhD
• "EXTEND: Injectable Extracellular Matrix with Induced Tenocytes for Tendon Regeneration", Benjamin Freedman, PhD
• "Cis P-tau Conformation-Specific Antibody for Treatment of Vascular Dementia​", Chenxi Qiu, PhD

Announcement of Winners, Photos, Thanks! (Amphitheater)