Breaking the Chain of Infection: Tufts@Kendall Event Connects Tufts Researchers and the Biomedical Industry
April 24, 2019
Tufts Corporate and Foundation Relations, together with MassBio held the first Tufts@Kendall event, Breaking the Chain of Infection: Innovations in the Prevention and Treatment of Infectious Disease. The event was a great success, with more than 80 members of the biomedical community, including representatives from 20 different companies, coming together to learn and discuss the latest advances in infectious disease and antimicrobial resistance at Tufts University. — Source: Tufts Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations
Event Details:
Program
Breaking the Chain of Infection: Innovations in the Prevention and Treatment of Infectious Disease
4:30 pm Registration & Networking
5:00 pm Welcome
John Hallinan, Chief Business Officer, MassBio
Simin Meydani, DVM, PhD, Vice Provost for Research, Tufts University
5:20 pm Collaborating to Combat Antimicrobial Resistance
Helen W. Boucher, MD, FACP, FIDSA, Director, Tufts Center for Integrated Management of Antimicrobial Resistance (CIMAR); Director, Heart Transplant and Ventricular Assist Device Infectious Diseases Program; Director, Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program; Professor of Medicine, Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Tufts Medical Center
5:40 pm Opening of Networking Poster Session & Closing Remarks
John Leong, MD, PhD, Edith Rieva and Hyman S. Trilling Professor & Chair, Department of Molecular Biology & Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine; Leadership Member, Tufts Center for Integrated Management of Antimicrobial Resistance
5:45 pm Poster session, networking, cocktails and hors d’oeuvres (available throughout event)
Featuring presentations by Bree Aldridge, PhD, Caroline Genco, PhD, Linden Hu, MD, FIDSA, Ralph Isberg, PhD, David Kaplan, PhD, Johnathan Runstadler, PhD, Cheleste M. Thorpe, MD and many more cutting-edge researchers
Our Innovators:
Poster Session & Networking Reception Participants
Bree Aldridge, PhD, CIMAR Core Faculty member; Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Biology & Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University School of Engineering – Infectious Disease focus: Mycobacterium tuberculosis, drug regimen design
Gillian Beamer, VMD, PhD, DACVP, CIMAR Core Faculty member; Assistant Professor, Department of Infectious Disease and Global Health, Cummings School of Veterinarian Medicine at Tufts University – Infectious Disease Focus: Mycobacterium tuberculosis, biomarkers, diagnostic platforms
Helen W. Boucher, MD, FACP, FIDSA, CIMAR Director; Director, Heart Transplant and Ventricular Assist Device Infectious Diseases Program; Director, Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program; Professor of Medicine, Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Tufts Medical Center – Infectious Disease focus: Antimicrobial drug development, S. aureus infections, fungal infections, infections in immunosuppressed patients, infections related to cardiac assist devices
Andrew Camilli, PhD, CIMAR Core Faculty member; Professor, Department of Molecular Biology & Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine – Infectious Disease focus: Vibrio cholerae, Streptococcus pneumoniae, vaccine development, phage therapeutics
Caroline Genco, PhD, CIMAR Core Faculty member; Arthur E. Spiller MD Professor & Chair, Immunology Department, Tufts University School of Medicine – Infectious Disease focus: Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Porphyromonas gingivalis, vaccine development, inflammation & microbiome
Linden Hu, MD, FIDSA, CIMAR Stakeholder; Vice Dean for Research; Professor, Department of Molecular Biology & Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine – Infectious Disease focus: Borrelia burgdorferi, Porphyromonas gingivalis, vaccine development
Ralph Isberg, PhD, CIMAR Director; Professor, Department of Molecular Biology & Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine – Infectious Disease focus: Yersinia pseudotuberculosis, Legionella pneumophila, Acinetobacter baumannii, antibiotic resistance, therapeutic targets
David Kaplan, PhD, Stern Family Professor of Engineering; Professor and Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University School of Engineering – Infectious Disease focus: silk-based materials, 3D tissue engineering, drug stabilization and delivery
Joshua Kritzer, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Tufts University School of Arts & Sciences – Infectious Disease focus: molecular therapeutics, drug design, peptide synthesis
Carol Kumamoto, PhD, Professor, Department of Molecular Biology & Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine – Infectious Disease focus: Candida albicans, gene expression
John Leong, MD, PhD, CIMAR Leadership Member; Edith Rieva and Hyman S. Trilling Professor & Chair, Department of Molecular Biology & Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine – Infectious Disease focus: Escherichia coli, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Borrelia burgdorferi, immune response
Karl Munger, PhD, Interim Chair & Professor, Department of Developmental, Molecular & Chemical Biology, Tufts University School of Medicine – Infectious Disease focus: human papillomavirus, cancer
James Munro, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Biology & Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine – Infectious Disease focus: viral entry, envelope glycoproteins, HIV-1, Ebola virus, influenza A, respiratory syncytial virus, single-molecule fluorescence
Wai-Leung Ng, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Biology & Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine – Infectious Disease focus: Vibrio cholerae, signaling pathway, 3D intestinal tissue model
Fiorenzo Omenetto, PhD, Dean of Research; Frank C. Doble Professor of Engineering; Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University School of Engineering – Infectious Disease focus: ultrafast nonlinear optics, nanophotonics, biopolymer multifunctional materials, material science, photonic crystals, photonic crystal fibers
Johnathan Runstadler, DVM, PhD, Professor, Department of Infectious Disease and Global Health, Cummings School of Veterinarian Medicine at Tufts University – Infectious Disease focus: influenza virus, disease vectors, environmental change & persistence, population genetics & evolutionary biology, ecology
Cheleste M. Thorpe, MD, CIMAR Core Faculty member; Attending Physician, Tufts Medical Center; Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine – Infectious DiseaseFocus: Gut immune activation, host-pathogen interactions, probiotics
Annie Wayne, DVM, MPH, DACVECC, Clinical Assistant Professor, Emergency & Critical Care, Department of Clinical Sciences, Cummings School of Veterinarian Medicine at Tufts University – Infectious Disease focus: Antibiotic stewardship, Infection control
Qiabing Xu, PhD,CIMAR Core Faculty member; Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University School of Engineering – Infectious Disease focus: nanotechnology, drug delivery, tissue engineering
Minmin Yen, Ph.D., Post-Doctoral Scholar, Department of Molecular Biology & Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine; Founding CEO, PhagePro – Infectious Disease focus: Vibrio cholerae, bacteriophage-based therapeutics