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Dear Colleague:
It's my great pleasure to invite you and your colleagues to attend the
first annual Neuroscience Symposium, sponsored by GW Institute for
Neuroscience. This year's symposium will be held on Wednesday, April 27
from 9AM through 5PM in the Continental Ballroom of the GW Marvin
Center, 800 21st Street, N.W., Washington, DC. The Marvin Center is
easily reached by Metro, via the blue or orange line to the Foggy
Bottom station. We will send additional information on registration for
the event later this month; however, I wanted to make you aware of the
symposium so that you can alert your colleagues and plan to attend.
This year's symposium will focus on The Developing Brain and Cancer.
Our speakers will include Dr. Michael Dyer, Member and Principle
Investigator, St. Jude Children's Hospital, Memphis TN, who will talk
about his ongoing work on retinoblastoma in animal models and
therapeutic development for clinical treatment, and Dr. Scott Pomeroy,
Bronson Crothers Professor and of Neurology, Harvard Medical School and
Neurologist-in-Chief, Children's Hospital Boston, who will talk about
his work on cellular mechanisms and treatment approaches to
medulloblastoma. In addition, Dr. Sally Moody, Professor of Anatomy and
Regenerative Biology, GWUMC, will talk about her work on mechanisms of
retinal stem cell specification, and Dr. Vittorio Gallo, Wolf-Pack
Professor and Director, Center for Neuroscience Research, Children's
National Medical Center/Professor of Pharmacology & Physiology,
GWUMC, will talk about his work on CNS stem cells. The symposium will
include four shorter talks by GW graduate students and post-doctoral
fellows that address broadly issues of The Developing Brain and Cancer.
We will end with a brief panel discussion sponsored jointly by The GW
Institute for Neuroscience and The GW Cancer Institute.
We hope that you, your faculty colleagues, post-doctoral fellows,
students and staff will be able to join us for this exciting day of
neuroscience. The faculty of the GW Institute for Neuroscience
(http://www.gwumc.edu/neuroscience) would like for this event to help
build a greater sense of community and facilitate increased research
interactions between GW Investigators and our colleagues at sister
institutions throughout the great Washington DC area. We will contact
you soon with information on registration as well as the full schedule
for the day long symposium on April 27. If you have any questions about
this event, or the GW Institute for Neuroscience and its programs,
please feel free to write or call me.
I look forward to seeing you at this year's GW Institute for
Neuroscience Symposium on April 27, 2011 at the Marvin Center at the GW
Foggy Bottom Campus.
Sincerely,
Anthony LaMantia
Anthony-S. LaMantia, Ph.D.
Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology
Director, GW Institute for Neuroscience
The George Washington University School of Medicine