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-- WITH PHOTO -- TO HEALTH, NATIONAL, AND SCIENCE EDITORS:
Media Advisory: Kenneth Rainin Foundation Presents 2014 Innovations
Symposium Targeting Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
OAKLAND, Calif., March 10, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Kenneth
Rainin Foundation's 2014 Innovations Symposium: Taming the Microbiome
will take place July 15 - 16, 2014, at the Union Square Marriott in
San Francisco. The annual event brings together influential and
collaborative researchers and institutions, with the common goal of
curing Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), a disease that affects five
million people worldwide. The Symposium provides a nexus of diverse
people, ideas and insights with the potential to accelerate and
transform IBD research. A new addition to the Symposium this year is
the Rainin Foundation's Synergy Award, a grant opportunity available
only to conference participants. This award was established to
encourage synergistic, discovery-oriented projects that feature
interdisciplinary collaboration. The Synergy Award will provide
$100,000 in research support for one year to each investigator on the
team, up to a total of $300,000.
WHO: Michael A. Fischbach, Ph.D. - University of California, San
Francisco Insights from a Global View of Secondary Metabolism: Small
Molecules from the Human Microbiota
Rob Knight, Ph.D. - Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of
Colorado Meta-analyses and Cross-cohort Studies of the Human Gut
Microbiome with Application to IBD
W. Ian Lipkin, MD - Columbia University, Center for Infection &
Immunity Small Game Hunting
Margaret McFall-Ngai, Ph.D. - University of Wisconsin, Madison Using
Animal Models to Discover the Rules of Epithelial-surface Colonization
by Bacteria
WHAT: 2014 Innovations Symposium: Taming the Microbiome
WHEN: Tuesday - Wednesday, July 15 - 16, 2014, from 8 a.m. to 5
p.m.
WHERE: Union Square Marriott, 480 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA
To learn more about the symposium, please visit rainin-symposium.com.
About the Kenneth Rainin Foundation : The Kenneth Rainin Foundation
believes that people working to effect change need an early champion
to further their ideas. Like our founder, we listen to and invest in
collaborative and innovative projects that advance the arts, education
and health. Learn more at krfoundation.org
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