Research Week 2016 Opens Monday, April 18

More than 20 events are planned for Research Week 2016, April 18-22, on the University of Cincinnati Uptown campus.

Presented by Assurex Health, Research Week 2016 is hosted collaboratively by UC, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, the Center for Clinical & Translational Science & Training, Cincinnati Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, the Cincinnati Education & Research for Veterans Foundation and UC Health.

All events are free and open to the public. 

The week kicks off with an opening ceremony from noon until 12:30 p.m., Monday, April 18, in the CARE/Crawley Atrium. UC President Santa Ono, PhD, College of Medicine Dean William Ball, MD, UC Vice President for Research Patrick Limbach, PhD, Margaret Hostetter, MD, director of the Children’s Hospital Research Foundation and UC chair of pediatrics, and Kate Chard, PhD, director of the Cincinnati VA PTSD Division, will participate in the festivities.

Ten featured lectures during the week include:

"More COX Than Clocks: Adventures in Translational Science”

Garret FitzGerald, MD, McNeil Professor in Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, chair of the department of pharmacology and director of the Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics at the University of Pennsylvania

4 – 5:30 p.m., Monday, April 18

Medical Sciences Building E-251

"The Social Context of Health: A Tale of Two Americas – Separate and Unequal”

Victor Garcia, MD, UC professor of pediatrics

8 – 9 a.m., Tuesday, April 19

Medical Sciences Building Room 5051

"Clinical Application of Pharmacogenomics in Mental Health”

Bryan Dechairo, PhD, who has 20 years in healthcare technology and pharmaceutical development

Noon – 1 p.m., Tuesday, April 19

Medical Sciences Building Room 5051

"Hilbert’s 23 Unsolved Problems in Mathematics, and a Research Agenda for Emergency Medicine”

Jeremy Brown, MD, director, Office of Emergency Care Research, National Institutes of Health

2 – 3:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 19

Medical Sciences Building Room 5051

"Synergy – How Cancer Centers Support the Tripartite Mission”

George Weiner, MD, director, Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center, C.E. Block Chair of Cancer Research and professor of internal medicine at the University of Iowa

8 – 9 a.m., Wednesday, April 20

Kresge Auditorium

"Wearable Tech 2.0: Using Sweat to Continuously Measure What is Happening Inside the Body”

Jason Heikenfeld, PhD, professor, UC College of Engineering and Applied Science

"Synthetic Biology: Driving Powerful New Therapeutic Paradigms”

Tom Reed, PhD, a molecular geneticist with more than 20 years of experience in recombinant DNA technology

Noon – 1 p.m., Wednesday, April 20

Medical Sciences Building Room 5051

"Assisted Circulation Perspectives: Origin, Status and Prospects”

John Watson, PhD, professor of bioengineering and director of the Whitaker Center for Biomedical Engineering at the University of California, San Diego

4 – 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 20

Kresge Auditorium

"Race/Ethnicity and Translational Medicine: the Power of Diversity”

Keith Norris, MD, PhD, director of the NIH Diversity Program Consortium Coordination and Evaluation Center at the University of California, Los Angeles

Noon – 1 p.m., Thursday, April 21

Medical Sciences Building Room 5051

"The Ron Receptor: A New Molecular Target in Prostate Cancer”

Susan Waltz, PhD, UC professor of cancer biology

"Role of Transcription Factors in Progression of Prostate Cancer”

Tanya Kalin, MD, PhD, UC associate professor of pediatrics

8 – 9 a.m., Friday, April 22

Medical Sciences Building Room 5051

Hutton Ethics Lectureship

"Far From the Bedside: Is Consent Necessary for Research with Biospecimens?”

Jeffrey Botkin, MD, MPH, professor of pediatrics and chief of medical ethics at the University of Utah School of Medicine

Noon – 1:30 p.m., Friday, April 22

Medical Sciences Building Room 5051

Other events include:

• Spotlight on Cincinnati Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center Research, poster session, 1:30 – 2:30 p.m., April 18, CARE/Crawley Atrium.
• What Can We Do to Eliminate Racial Disparities in Breastfeeding and Infant Mortality?, nine presentations from 9:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m., April 19, S Auditorium, Cincinnati Children’s.
• Successes and Challenges of Community-Based Research Partnerships, panel discussion, 1 – 2 p.m., April 19, MSB 5051.
• Engaging the Community to Improve Health, poster session, 2 – 4 p.m., April 19, CARE/Crawley Atrium.
• Innovation, Entrepreneurism and Technology Expo, 9:30 a.m. – noon, April 20, CARE/Crawley Atrium.
• Shark Tank, 1:30 – 3:30 p.m., April 20, MSB E-351.
• Impacting Health Across the Lifespan, five presentations between 8 a.m. and noon, April 21, MSB 5051.
• Graduate Student Symposium: Community-Student Partnerships, 1:30 – 4 p.m., April 21, MSB-E-255.
• Undergraduate Poster Session, 2 – 4 p.m., April 21, CARE/Crawley Atrium.
• Presentations of Research and Innovative/Scholarly Endeavors (PRaISE), 9 a.m. – noon, April 22, Fifth Third Arena.
• UC Mini Public Health Conference, 9 a.m. – 4 pm., April 22, Kehoe G17 & 18.
• Cancer Biology: Prevention, Detection and Treatment, poster session, 9:30 – 11:30 a.m., April 22, CARE/Crawley Atrium.
• Undergraduate Research, Scholarly Endeavors and Creative Practice and PRaISE, noon – 3 p.m., April 22, Fifth Third Arena.

>> See a full Research Week schedule of events. 

An app with the schedule of events, information about speakers, presentations, posters and more is available for download for iOS and Android. 

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For more information on Research Week 2016, contact Brieanne Sheehan, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, at 513-558-7564 brieanne.sheehan@uc.edu.