Annual GoldLab Symposium Convenes to Ignite Discussions

May 12, 2016

Annual GoldLab Symposium Convenes to Ignite Discussions on Medical Research, Public Policy, and Lifestyle Advancements that Affect Health Care and Healthy Living

The seventh annual GoldLab Symposium, a unique and thought-provoking two-day conference that addresses the challenges, successes, and cutting-edge issues affecting health care and healthy living, convenes on the CU-Boulder campus, May 20-21, 2016. The symposium is free and open to the public, though registration is required.

This year’s symposium, “Standing Together—Health Care for Our Common Good,” includes topics on health care accessibility, human gene therapy, primary care in today’s world, drug research and development, the social behavior of bees, and the power of generosity. Presentations made by health care innovators, medical researchers, scientists, and thought leaders will be recorded and posted on the GoldLab Foundation website, following the close of the symposium.

“The GoldLab Symposium is rooted in deep discussions that inspire us to listen, learn, and engage in the overarching challenges of providing better health care and living healthy and satisfying lives,” said Larry Gold, Ph.D., professor at CU-Boulder and a bioscience industry pioneer. “This year, our symposium explores a wide range of topics that, when considered as a whole, affect the greater common good.”
2016 GoldLab Symposium Agenda

May 20, 2016 (morning): Accessing Better Health Care Through Legislation, Science, and Nature

• Amendment 69: ColoradoCare? Yes!—Senator Irene Aguilar, M.D.
• The Unrealized Value to Society of Understanding Down Syndrome—Tom Blumenthal, Ph.D.
• Me to We: Searching for the Genetic Roots of Sociality—Gene Robinson, Ph.D.
• Nature as Medicine—Scott Russell Sanders, Ph.D.

May 20, 2016 (afternoon): Social and Biological Stressors, Information Transfer, and Generosity

• The Unmentionables: Is “Life” the Missing Link?—Alexandra Drane
• Everyone Knows About Alcohol – But What Do We Really Know?—Paula Hoffman, Ph.D.
• A Solid State Conceptualization of Information Transfer from Gene to Message to Protein—Steven McKnight, Ph.D.
• Generosity Becomes You—Jennifer McCrea

 

May 21, 2016 (morning): Human Complexities—Our Genes, Gender, and Biology

• Women and Technology Innovation—Lucy Sanders
• Chance, Genetics, and the Heterogeneity of Autoimmunity and Disease Pathogenesis in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus—Tony Marion, Ph.D.
• Clinical Proteomics for Diagnostics and Precision Medicine: Applications in the Post-Genome Era—Emanuel Petricoin, Ph.D.
• A Tour of the Human Genome—Sean Eddy, Ph.D.

May 21, 2016 (afternoon): Ironies and Challenges of Medical Research and Patient Care

• “Damn the Compass, Full Speed Ahead”: Why Quality Beats Quantity in Drug R&D—Jack Scannell, Ph.D.
• Targeted Nucleases—Human Gene Therapy 2.0?— Paula Cannon, Ph.D.
• Primary Care for the Twenty-First Century—David Lawrence, M.D.
• Dispatches from the Frontiers of Modern Medicine—Elizabeth Scarboro

 

Public and Media Registration

Public Registration: https://goldlabfoundation.org/symposia/registration/
Media Registration: jbraccio@goldlabfoundation.org