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Friday, March 22, 2024
7:30 a.m. – 4 p.m.

605 Elm Street, Columbia, MO 65201
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Agenda

7:30 am - 8:30 am: Registration and Coffee/Continental Breakfast 

8:30 am - 8:45 am: Welcome and Housekeeping 

• Dave Arnold, Executive Director, NextGen Precision Health Initiative
• David Lile, Former Host of Columbia Morning on KFRU

8:45 am - 10:00 am: Faculty Talks - Session A

• “Translating Addiction Neuroscience Research” (8:45 am)
  Brett Froeliger, Professor, �������ϲʹ�������
• “Mesenchymal Stem Cells: PATHWAYS to the Clinic” (9:00 am)
  Julie Semon, Associate Professor, Missouri University of Science and Technology
• “Choosing the Target in Alzheimer’s Disease Therapeutics” (9:15 am)
  Michael Nichols, Professor, �������ϲʹ�������-St. Louis
• “Demystifying Neurodegenerative Patterns: From ALS to Dementia” (9:30 am)
  Smita Saxena, Ph.D., Professor, �������ϲʹ������� School of Medicine
• “Addressing the Final Gap in Translational Research” (9:45 am)
  John Spertus, Professor, �������ϲʹ�������-Kansas City

10:00 am - 10:30 am: Break (Coffee, water, tea available)

10:30 am - 11:45 am: Faculty Talks - Session B

• “Towards Better Understanding of ALS using a Multi-Marker Discovery Approach from a Multi-Modal Database (ALS4M)” (10:30 am)
  Xing Song, Assistant Professor, MU School of Medicine
• “Little Fly, Big Impact: Drosophila as a Model to Understand RNA Regulation in Muscle Development and Disease” (10:45 am)
  Maria Spletter, Assistant Professor �������ϲʹ�������-Kansas City
• “The Alliance for Precision Health: Research Collaboration” (11:00 am)
  John Grinstead, Siemens Healthineers Medical Physicist, NextGen Precision Health
• “Machine Learning Discovery of Actionable Biological Mechanisms for Precision Medicine” (11:15 am)
  Robert Paul, Curators’ Distinguished Professor, �������ϲʹ�������-St. Louis
• “A Novel Approach to Hemostasis” (11:30 am)
  Mark Towler, Doshi Professor, Missouri University of Science and Technology

11:45 am - 12:30 pm: Lunch/Networking (Boxed lunches with water and tea available)

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm: Poster Session A

1:30 pm - 2:00 pm: Break (Coffee, water, tea, dessert/snacks available)

2:00 pm - 2:45 pm: Keynote Speaker - Thomas Pedersen, CEO of NMD Pharma

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm: Poster Session B

NextGen Precision Health’s inaugural PATHWAYS symposium draws on pathbreaking work from across the �������ϲʹ������� System to celebrate research collaborations with the potential to impact global health.

On average in the U.S., it takes for a new treatment to make it from the discovery phase to a clinical patient. We believe we can accelerate that time frame if all segments of the translational science pipeline are engaged from the beginning. At the PATHWAYS symposium, research faculty, postdoctoral researchers, and graduate students from a broad range of disciplines will build understanding to lower research barriers and jump start new projects.

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The agenda will promote a dual mission: accelerating discoveries and fostering discoverers. The symposium will provide networking opportunities for experts across our four universities and give young researchers a pragmatic approach for connecting to other fields and the translation process. By making each of our contributions accessible and relevant across domains, we can leverage our strengths and ultimately impact quality of life around the world. 

Questions? 

Contact the NextGen Precision Health initiative at nextgenpathways@umsystem.edu.