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The 2018 Systems Biology Symposium

Each year, Clarivate Analytics hosts leaders from across the industry to evaluate and elevate the major trends and tactics that are helping us to better understand our systems biology, increasing our chances of bringing new life-saving medicine to the world.  The symposium provides its attendees with the opportunity to interact with peers that are pushing the limits of systems biology, specifically when it comes to integrating data and powerful analytics into the decision making process.

This years’ symposium included speakers from industry and academic leaders such as Abbvie, Biogen, Harvard and Vertex.  Watch the live recordings and/or download the presentations today!

 

Speakers

Keynote: John Quackenbush, Ph.D.
Professor, Dana-Farber
Cancer Institute
Harvard School of Public Health

 

Richard K. Harrison, Ph.D.
Chief Scientific Officer
Clarivate Analytics

 

Heiko Runz
Medical Director, Genetics
Biogen

 

Hsin-Pei Shih
Senior Research Scientist
Vertex Pharmaceuticals

 

Jing Wang
Senior Scientist II
AbbVie Immunology

 

Nicholas Stylopoulos MD
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School

Associate Member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

 

Event details

  • Date 5/14/2018
  • Time 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM, with a happy hour to follow
  • Location WebEx details will be provided once the registration form is filled out

Agenda/Program

  • 8:30 AM Richard Harrison, Chief Scientific Officer, Clarivate Analytics 
    • Opening Remarks
  • 9:00 AM John Quakenbush, Professor, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health
    •  Using Networks to Link Genotype to Phenotype
  • 10:00 AM Morning Break   
  • 10:30 AM Matt Wampole, Manager, Solutions Scientists, Clarivate Analytics
    • Systems Biology Tools for Identifying Targets
  • 11:00 AM Heiko Runz, Medical Director, Genetics, Biogen 
    • Phenome-Wide Association Studies (PheWAS) Across Large "Real-World Data" Population Cohorts Support Drug Target Validation
  • 11:30 AM Hsin-Pei Shih, Senior Research Scientist, Vertex Pharmaceuticals 
    • Drug Discovery Effectiveness from the Standpoint of Therapeutic Mechanisms and Indications: Systematic Analysis and Visualization of Pipeline Data
  • 12:00 PM Networking Lunch   
  • 1:00 PM Jing Wang, Senior Scientist II, AbbVie Immunology 
    • TBD
  • 1:30 PM Nicholas Stylopoulos, Assistant Professor/Research Scientist, Harvard Medical School/Boston Children's Hospital 
    • Unravelling The Mechanisms of Weight Loss Surgery: Our Systems Biology Approach
  • 2:00 PM Rima Hajjo, Solutions Scientist, Clarivate Analytics 
    • Systems Biology Approaches for Unraveling the Mysteries of Rare Diseases
  • 2:30 PM Afternoon Break
  • 2:45 PM Alex Ivliev, Senior Research Scientist, Clarivate Analytics 
    • Bioinformatics Pipeline for Toxicity Prediction
  • 3:15 PM Richard Harrison, Chief Scientific Officer, Clarivate Analytics 
    • Closing Remarks

What topics will be discussed?

  • The latest trends in Systems Biology, including how you can better:
  • Understand diseases and generate potential targets
  • Determine and prioritize the targets that are actionable
  • Optimize a therapeutic that is ready for the clinic
 
  • How the CBDD program (Computational Biology Methods for Drug Discovery) is leading to innovation in the systems biology space

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