2016
Standing Together—Health Care for Our Common Good
The 7th annual symposium, “Standing Together—Health Care for Our Common Good,” included 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 were made by health care innovators, medical researchers, scientists, and thought leaders.
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View interview with Bryce Widom about creation of symposium artwork.
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Symposium Welcome
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2016 Symposium Welcome
Larry Gold serves as the Founder and Chairman of the Board of SomaLogic, and is a Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder.
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Accessing Better Health Care Through Legislation, Science, and Nature
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Amendment 69: ColoradoCare? Yes!
Born and raised in inner city Chicago, Irene Aguilar was the first in her family to receive a bachelor’s degree. She attended Washington University in St. Louis on a scholarship and received her medical degree from the University of Chicago-Pritzker School of Medicine.
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The Unrealized Value to Society of Understanding Down Syndrome
Tom Blumenthal is the Anna and John J. Sie Professor in Genomics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, where he is executive director of the Linda Crnic Institute for Down Syndrome.
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Me to We: Searching for the Genetic Roots of Sociality
Gene E. Robinson received a Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1986 and joined the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1989. He holds a university Swanlund Chair, is the director of the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB), and director of the Bee Research Facility.
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Nature as Medicine
Scott Russell Sanders is the author of 20 books of fiction and nonfiction, including Hunting for Hope, Earth Works, and Divine Animal.
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Social and Biological Stressors, Information Transfer, and Generosity
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The Unmentionables: Is “Life” the Missing Link?
Alexandra Drane is the co-founder and chairman of the board of Eliza Corporation, and co-founder of Engage with Grace. She is obsessed with using technology to help people of all walks of life be happier, healthier, and more productive
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Everyone Knows About Alcohol–But What Do We Really Know?
Paula Hoffman is a tenured professor of pharmacology in the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
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A Solid State Conceptualization of Information Transfer from Gene to Message to Protein
Steven L. McKnight received a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Texas in 1974 and his Ph.D. degree in biology from the University of Virginia in 1977.
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Generosity Becomes You
Jennifer McCrea is a senior research fellow at the Hauser Institute for Civil Society at Harvard University and the co-founder and CEO of Born Free Africa, an initiative of the Millennium Development Goals Health Alliance that brings private sector resources and expertise to the goal of eradicating mother-to-child transmission of HIV.
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Human Complexities—Our Genes, Gender, and Biology
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Women and Technology Innovation
Lucy Sanders is CEO and co-founder of the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) and also serves as executive-in-residence for the ATLAS Institute at the University of Colorado Boulder.
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Chance, Genetics, and the Heterogeneity of Autoimmunity and Disease Pathogenesis in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Tony Marion is a professor in the department of microbiology, immunology, and biochemistry at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis.
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Clinical Proteomics for Diagnostics and Precision Medicine: Applications in the Post-Genome Era
Emanuel Petricoin has been the co-director of the Center for Applied Proteomics and Molecular Medicine (CAPMM) at George Mason University since 2005, where he is a university professor.
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A Tour of the Human Genome
Sean Eddy is a computational biologist at Harvard University where he is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and the Ellmore C. Patterson Professor of Molecular & Cellular Biology and of Applied Mathematics.
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Ironies and Challenges of Medical Research and Patient Care
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“Damn the Compass, Full Speed Ahead”: Why Quality Beats Quantity in Drug R&D
Jack Scannell studies biomedical R&D productivity from both an economic and a scientific perspective, particularly the unpalatable contrast between cheaper and better scientific inputs, and what has been a long-term decline in innovative output efficiency.
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Targeted Nucleases—Human Gene Therapy 2.0?
Paula Cannon, Ph.D. is a professor of molecular microbiology and immunology at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California. She leads a research team that studies viruses, stem cells, and gene therapy, with an emphasis on HIV/AIDS.
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Primary Care for the Twenty-First Century
Dr. Lawrence served as CEO and Chairman of Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Hospitals until his retirement in 2002. He was appointed CEO in 1991 and Chairman the next year.
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Dispatches from the Frontiers of Modern Medicine
Elizabeth Scarboro was born on September 11, before it was September 11, in a hospital in Denver, on the night of an eclipse, which her father remembers well, and her mother, shakily.
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Closing Remarks
Moderators
Contact Info
Gold Lab
University of Colorado Boulder
347 UCB Boulder, CO 80309Tel: (303) 735-7112
Email: info@goldlabfoundation.org
