21st Annual Thomas J. Fogarty Lecture: Focus on Innovation featuring Brook Byers, Founding Partner, Kleiner Perkins
The Fogarty lectureship was established to bring together a diverse community in Silicon Valley focusing on leaders in discovery, invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship. This event is sponsored by the Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign, Fogarty Institute for Innovation and the Stanford Department of Surgery.
About Brook Byers:
Brook Byers is a founding member of Kleiner Perkins. A venture capital investor since 1972, Brook has been closely involved with more than 60 new technology-based ventures, many of which have become public companies. He formed the first life sciences practice group in the venture capital profession in 1984 and led KP to become a premier venture capital firm in the medical, healthcare and biotechnology sectors. KP has invested in and helped build more than 120 life sciences companies that have developed hundreds of products to treat underserved medical needs for many millions of patients. Brook has been an innovator in precision medicine and health genomics, antibodies and devices. He was the founding president and then chairman of four biotechnology companies that were incubated in KP’s offices and went on to become public companies with an aggregate market value of more than US $8 billion. He serves on the board of directors of Epiodyne, Enjoy, Newsela, Octave and Verana Health.
Brook serves on the Board of Overseers of the University of California San Francisco medical campus and hospitals, the Stanford Medicine Advisory Council, the Board of Directors of the New Schools Foundation, the Advisory Board of Stanford’s Center for Precision Health and Integrated Diagnostics and the Stanford Center for Biodesign. In 2007, UCSF awarded Brook the UCSF Medal, its honorary degree equivalent. In 2008, Brook was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2009, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Venture Capital Association. In 2010, he received an honorary Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology.
Raised in Atlanta, Georgia, Brook graduated with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Georgia Tech and received an M.B.A. from Stanford University.
Register: http://bit.ly/FogartyLecture-2019
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REGISTRATION
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Registration for the 74th Annual Meeting will open in April 2019.
2020 Annual Research Meeting
Today’s research driving tomorrow’s outcomes.
New! We’re Starting on Saturday
In 2020, we’re heading north to Boston, June 13-16, home to some of the nation’s top health care delivery systems. Enjoy an extra half day of research with the new Saturday start time.
Help Shape the 2020 Event
We’re seeking abstract reviewers. As an reviewer, you play a critical role in helping to shape the agenda for the 2020 Annual Research Meeting. If selected, you have the opportunity to review abstracts submitted to a specific theme for next year’s conference, and participate in the grading, selection, and session building process.
Volunteer here by Friday, September 20, 2019.
18th Biennial European Conference
Linking Research to Evidence-Based Action for Patients, Providers and Policy Decision Makers
Tweet: #ESMDM20
Location:
Langenbeck Virchow Haus
Luisenstraße 58/59
10117 Berlin, Germany
Conference Co-Chairs: Beate Jahn, PhD, Silke Siebert, MD, Tobias Kurth, MD, MSc, ScD, and Uwe Siebert, MD, MPH, MSc, ScD
Call for Abstracts & Short Courses opens December 2019.
Registration opens April 2020.
Updates will be posted to this webpage in the coming months.
Dates to Know
ASCO wants to ensure that you never miss a deadline. From the opening of registration and hotel reservations to the release of abstracts, keep these dates in mind as you prepare to attend the 2020 Annual Meeting.
EARLY NOVEMBER 2019
Member Registration and Hotel Reservations Open
NOVEMBER 6, 2019
Abstract Submitter Launches
EARLY DECEMBER 2019
Registration and Hotel Reservations Opens To All
LATE JANUARY 2020
Group and Exhibitor Registration Opens
FEBRUARY 11, 2020 AT 11:59 PM ET
Abstract Submission Deadline
MARCH 12, 2020 AT 12:00 PM (NOON) ET
Late-Breaking Data Submission Deadline
(Authors must submit a shell/placeholder by the February 11, 2020, deadline to be considered for Late-Breaking Submission)
MARCH 27, 2020
Abstract Notifications Sent to First Authors
APRIL 22, 2020 AT 11:59 PM ET
Early Registration and Hotel Reservation Deadline
MAY 13, 2020 at 5:00 PM ET
Abstracts released on ASCO Meeting Library
MAY 29-JUNE 2, 2020
Chicago, IL
2020 ASCO Annual Meeting
Contacts – The Transplantation Society
Director of Meetings and Sponsorship
Isabel Stengler, CMP
Telephone: +1.514.991.3851
Email: isabel.stengler@tts.org
Program, Abstracts and CME
Catherin Parker
Telephone: +1.514.874.1717 ext. 214
Email: program@tts2018.org
Registration and General Inquiries
Eugenia (Kena) Siu
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Email: info@tts2018.org
TTS Office Information
27th International Congress of The Transplantation Society
c/o The Transplantation Society
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Montreal, QC, H2Z 1A8, Canada
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Email: info@tts2018.org
Web: www.tts2018.org
DAWN M. LAPORTE, MD
2020 Annual Meeting Program Co-Chair | Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
RYAN P. CALFEE, MD, MSC
2020 Annual Meeting Program Co-Chair | Washington University School of Medicine
For more info, see link: http://westernvascularsociety.org/upcoming-meeting/
Relationships in Medical Decision Making
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Meeting co-chairs: David Meltzer, MD, PhD and Alan Schwartz, PhD
Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile
540 N. Michigan Ave.
Chicago, IL, 60611 USA
More information will be posted as we near the meeting.