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Friday, October 09, 2009 from 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (ET)
The Future of Medicine Series is an informal moderated forum bringing together research professionals and clinicians interested in drug development.
Speaker: Dr. Gordon Keller, Director, McEwan Centre for Regenerative Medicine
Each session has a 30-minute presentation and a 45-minute moderated discussion. For more information on this series or to register for a specific event please contact MaRS at events@marsdd.com.
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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
| Dr. Gordon Keller earned his PhD in Immunology at the University of Alberta in 1979 and completed a Post Doctoral Fellowship at the Ontario Cancer Institute in Toronto in 1983. Following post doctoral studies, he became a Member of the Basel Institute for Immunology in Switzerland where he worked for five years, then moved to Vienna Austria where he accepted a post of Visiting Scientist at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology. In 1990, Keller moved to the United States, working initially at the National Jewish Centre for Immunology and Respiratory Medicine in Denver Colorado and from 1999-2006 as a Professor in the Department of Gene and Cell Medicine at the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York. In 2005, he was appointed as the Director of the Black Family Stem Cell Institute within the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine. As of January 2007, Keller returned to Canada to accept the position of Director of the McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicine at the University Health Network in Toronto. Dr. Keller is best known for his research in lineage specific differentiation of mouse and human embryonic stem cells. |
MaRS (www.marsdd.com) is a non-profit organization focused on maximizing the economic and social impact of Canadian innovation. MaRS was founded in 2000 by leaders from the private and public sectors in order to improve commercial outcomes from Canada’s strong foundation of science and technology innovation. MaRS connects and fosters collaboration between the communities of science, business and capital through co-location in the MaRS Centre and more broadly through catalytic programs, structured networks and the MaRS web portal. The MaRS Centre opened in 2005.
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