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Meet the Speakers: The Future of siRNA

siRNA is one of the molecules of future medicine, with some success at early clinical trials. How will this molecule affect the future of therapeutics? Twelve years ago, a novel mechanism for shutting down genes has been described in a nature paper. The mechanism described made use of molecules called siRNA – Small Inhibitory RNA – whose potential for the development of new therapies for diseases like cancer has been recognized immediately. Last year, Dr. Dan Peer managed to create lip...

Meet the Speakers: How will the U.S. Healthcare Reform Affect Medical Innovation?

How will president Obama's up-and-coming healthcare reform affect medical innovation? A panel of experts will focus on the problem in ILSI-BioMed 2010 week If you ask a Israeli what U.S. president Barack Obama most burning aspiration is, he’ll probably say it’s the resolution of the dispute in the Middle East. Put the same question to an American citizen, though, and he’ll immediately answer that Obama wants to reform the healthcare system, and for a good reason too. At the moment, health...

Meet the Speakers: Prof. Mauro Ferrari on Individualized Medicine

Prof. Mauro Ferrari will give a keynote lecture in the up-and-coming ILSI-BioMed week, regarding the ways in which Nanotechnology Enables Individualized Medicine A friend of mine came to me recently with an interesting question. Both he and his wife suffer from headaches, and while he can take a single tablet of acamol to make the pain go away, his wife is almost unaffected by the tablets, which makes her quite grouchy – and leads in turn to him having an headache again. Why is that? A...

Meet the Speakers: A Seminar about Vaccines in ILSI-BioMed 2010 Week

How will the panel of vaccine experts handle the recent developments in vaccine situations, such as Wakefield's article rennouncement by The Lancet, or the Swine Influenza vaccine? Greetings, dear readers! I'm happy to present a new section of this blog, termed Meet the Speakers. Every week, we'll introduce another of the lecturers and panelists in the up-and-coming ILSI-BioMed 2010 week. I hope it makes for an interesting reading! The last year, as well as the current one, has seen so...