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CAS Interdisciplinary Innovation Forum Organization Committee

April 17, 2012
Regenerative Medicine
Presentations
"Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine: Potential and Progress"
Timothy M. Wick, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, BMD and Co-Director of the BERM Center

"Ethical Issues in Bringing New Medical Technology to Reality"
Gregory Pence, Ph.D., Professor, UAB Department of Philosophy

"The Economics of Innovative New Therapies"
Joel Dobbs, MPH, PharmD, Executive in Residence in Entrepreneurship, UAB School of Business

"The Heart of Cardiac Regeneration"
Brigitta Brott, MD, Associate Professor, Division of Cardiovascular Disease, UAB Department of Medicine

"The Potential of Microphysiological Systems to Accelerate Drug Development"
Andrew Penman, Ph.D., Vice President, Drug Development, Southern Research Institute


March 13, 2012
"Innovations in Drug Delivery"
Presentations
Arthur J. Tipton, Ph.D., Evonik Degussa Corporation, Birmingham, AL
"Innovations in Drug Delivery" 

Veena Anthony, MD, UAB Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine
"Systematic and Targeted Drug Delivery"

Ken Hoyt, Ph.D., MBA, UAB Department of Radiology
"Ultrasound Inspired Strategies for Improving Drug Delivery in Cancer"

Eugenia Kharlampieva, Ph.D., UAB Department of Chemistry
"Polymer Capsules as "Intelligent" Delivery Carriers"

Derrick Dean, Ph.D., Department of Materials Science and Engineering
"Nanodiamond Particle Drug Release System for Cancer Therapy"


January 24, 2012

"New Energy Sources and Global Demand"
Presentations
Robin Miles, M.S., M.B.A., Lawrence Livermore National Lab, CA
"Laser Inertial Fusion Energy (LIFE) Project" Refer to (https://life.llnl.gov/ and https://lasers.llnl.gov/)

David Morrow, Ph.D., UAB Department of Philosophy
"New Energy Sources - Climate Change and Global Poverty"

Renato Camata, Ph.D., UAB Department of Physics
"Fuel Cells for Clean Energy Applications"