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Mar

21

Renal Grand Rounds - Ayotunde Ositelu, MD

Chicago - 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Join us every Thursday from 12:00 - 1:00 pm for an exciting variety of speakers presenting on a variety of topics but not limited to clinical nephrology, basic, clinical, and translational research, and innovation in kidney diseases.

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Mar

27

WARF Therapeutics: A Lean Academic Biotech Model

Online - 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Learn how WARF Therapeutics (WT), launched in 2018, is translating scientific discoveries at University of Wisconsin-Madison into therapeutics through a unique and innovative model. Jonathan Young will share details of the latest Pre-Clinical Development Candidate, a best in class Carbonic Anhydrase 9 (CA9) radiopharmaceutical, for clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC).

Our guest speaker, Jonathan Young, who helped bring WARFs (Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation) vision to life, structured this initiative aimed to offer a flexible, cost-effective drug discovery pipeline while engaging UW researchers and aligning with UW-Madison leadership.

With his 20+ years as a medicinal chemist in pharma and biotech, Jon walks the hallways of the research labs as a drug hunter looking for potential targets to drug. He works closely with his lean team and scientific advisory committee to identify, derisk and push forward select programs.

Learn what key elements matter to his team, the process by which drugs move along the pipeline, and how they've created a win for translationally minded researchers, WT, university, and patients alike.

This event is co-hosted by the Querrey InQbation Lab and Lurie Cancer Center.

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Mar

28

Renal Grand Rounds - Jenny Shen, MD

Chicago - 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Join us every Thursday from 12:00 - 1:00 pm for an exciting variety of speakers presenting on a variety of topics but not limited to clinical nephrology, basic, clinical, and translational research, and innovation in kidney diseases.

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Apr

02

FoundHer Stories | A Fireside Chat with Elizabeth Wood

Online - 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Northwestern University's Querrey InQbation Lab is hosting the FoundHer Stories series to amplify the startup stories of women scientist entrepreneurs.

Learn about Dr. Elizabeth Wood s experience co-founding JURA Bio in 2017 alongside Prof. George Church (Harvard) and former Church lab postdoc, Dr. Julie Norville. Dr. Wood will share how her company harnesses a combination of synthetic biology and machine learning to build an end-to-end discovery and development platform for developing immune-based therapeutics.

While the FoundHer Stories series is focused on supporting women innovators and entrepreneurs, all are welcome to register.

Please register in advance.

OUR SPEAKER

Elizabeth Wood, Ph.D., is the co-founder and CEO of JURA Bio, Inc., an early-stage therapeutics company focusing on developing and delivering cell-based therapies for the treatment of autoimmune and immune-related neurodegenerative disease. Before starting JURA, Wood was a post-doc in the lab of Adam Cohen at Harvard s Department of Chemistry and Physics. She began her PhD with Angela Belcher and Markus Buehler at MIT, and finished it under the supervision of Claus Helix-Nielsen at The Technical University of Denmark, Departments of Physics and Civil and Environmental Engineering. She has also worked at the University of Copenhagen s SBiN Lab with Kresten Lindorff-Larsen, integrating computational methods with experimental studies to better predict RNA structure and to understand how the ability of proteins to change their shape helps modulate their function. Wood is a visiting scientist at the Broad Institute, where she serves on the steering committee of MIA. Since 2019 she has served as the primary organizer of the NeurIPS Workshop Learning Meaningful Representations of Life. She currently serves on the board of Pure Home Water Ghana and Project Clio.

https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/97830552706

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Apr

03

Renal Grand Rounds - Monnie Wasse, MD, MPH

Chicago - 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Join us every Thursday from 12:00 - 1:00 pm for an exciting variety of speakers presenting on a variety of topics but not limited to clinical nephrology, basic, clinical, and translational research, and innovation in kidney diseases.

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Apr

11

Renal Grand Rounds - Vikram Aggarwal, MD

Chicago - 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Join us every Thursday from 12:00 - 1:00 pm for an exciting variety of speakers presenting on a variety of topics but not limited to clinical nephrology, basic, clinical, and translational research, and innovation in kidney diseases.

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Apr

18

Renal Grand Rounds - Anthony Bleyer, MD

Chicago - 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Join us every Thursday from 12:00 - 1:00 pm for an exciting variety of speakers presenting on a variety of topics but not limited to clinical nephrology, basic, clinical, and translational research, and innovation in kidney diseases.

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May

01

FoundHer Stories | A Fireside Chat with Marinna Madrid

Online - 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Northwestern University's Querrey InQbation Lab is hosting the FoundHer Stories series to amplify the startup stories of women scientist entrepreneurs.

Learn about Dr. Marinna Madrid s experience co-founding Cellino in 2017 alongside Dr. Nabiha Saklayen while pursuing their doctorates at Harvard. Dr. Madrid will share how her company is building a scalable, automated biomanufacturing system for potentially curative personalized cell therapies.

While the FoundHer Stories series is focused on supporting women innovators and entrepreneurs, all are welcome to register.

Please register in advance.

OUR SPEAKER

Marinna Madrid, Ph.D., is the co-founder and CPO of Cellino, a venture capital-backed early-stage biotech company. Cellino is making personalized regenerative medicines economically viable at scale for the first time. Marinna received her PhD and MA in Applied Physics from Harvard University, where she co-invented laser-based intracellular delivery techniques. She received her BSc in Biophysics from University of California, Los Angeles, after transferring from Riverside Community College. She is the recipient of the Harvard Graduate Prize Fellowship, the Catalyst Accelerator Grant from Harvard Medical School, and is on the Forbes 30 Under 30 2019 list for Healthcare.

https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/96119336898

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May

02

Renal Grand Rounds - Alexander Starushchenko, PhD

Chicago - 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Join us every Thursday from 12:00 - 1:00 pm for an exciting variety of speakers presenting on a variety of topics but not limited to clinical nephrology, basic, clinical, and translational research, and innovation in kidney diseases.

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May

09

Renal Grand Rounds - Myles Wolf, MD, MMSc

Chicago - 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Join us every Thursday from 12:00 - 1:00 pm for an exciting variety of speakers presenting on a variety of topics but not limited to clinical nephrology, basic, clinical, and translational research, and innovation in kidney diseases.

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May

23

Renal Grand Rounds - Paolo Cravedi, MD

Chicago - 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Join us every Thursday from 12:00 - 1:00 pm for an exciting variety of speakers presenting on a variety of topics but not limited to clinical nephrology, basic, clinical, and translational research, and innovation in kidney diseases.

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May

30

Renal Grand Rounds - Sandeep Mallipattu, MD

Chicago - 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Join us every Thursday from 12:00 - 1:00 pm for an exciting variety of speakers presenting on a variety of topics but not limited to clinical nephrology, basic, clinical, and translational research, and innovation in kidney diseases.

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Jun

05

Renal Grand Rounds - Miguel Vazquez, MD

Chicago - 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Join us every Thursday from 12:00 - 1:00 pm for an exciting variety of speakers presenting on a variety of topics but not limited to clinical nephrology, basic, clinical, and translational research, and innovation in kidney diseases.

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Jun

06

Renal Grand Rounds - Andrew Bomback, MD

Chicago - 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Join us every Thursday from 12:00 - 1:00 pm for an exciting variety of speakers presenting on a variety of topics but not limited to clinical nephrology, basic, clinical, and translational research, and innovation in kidney diseases.

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Jun

13

Renal Grand Rounds - Michelle Josephson, MD

Chicago - 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Join us every Thursday from 12:00 - 1:00 pm for an exciting variety of speakers presenting on a variety of topics but not limited to clinical nephrology, basic, clinical, and translational research, and innovation in kidney diseases.

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Jun

28

FoundHer Stories | A Fireside Chat with Janice Chen

Online - 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Northwestern University's Querrey InQbation Lab is hosting the FoundHer Stories series to amplify the startup stories of women scientist entrepreneurs.

Learn about Dr. Janice Chen s experience spinning out Mammoth Biosciences in 2017 from her doctoral research at UC Berkeley while working with Nobel Laureate Prof. Jennifer Doudna. Dr. Chen will share how her company is harnessing the diversity of nature to power the next generation of CRISPR products for applications ranging from healthcare, agriculture, environmental monitoring, and biodefense.

While the FoundHer Stories series is focused on supporting women innovators and entrepreneurs, all are welcome to register.

Please register in advance.

OUR SPEAKER

Janice Chen, Ph.D., is the co-founder and CTO of Mammoth Biosciences, where she leads the Applied program by implementing CRISPR-based DETECTR technology towards disease detection and other areas. Janice received her Ph.D. in Molecular and Cell Biology in Jennifer Doudna's lab at UC Berkeley. She has authored multiple publications and patents related to CRISPR mechanism and technologies, and co-invented the programmable CRISPR-based detection technology called DETECTR. Janice was selected as a 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 in Healthcare, and delivered a TEDx talk in 2018 on the potential for CRISPR to democratize diagnostics.

https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/95167793934

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Jul

17

FoundHer Stories | A Fireside Chat with Mariana Matus

Online - 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Northwestern University's Querrey InQbation Lab is hosting the FoundHer Stories series to amplify the startup stories of women scientist entrepreneurs.

Learn about Dr. Mariana Matus experience spinning out Biobot Analytics in 2017 from her doctoral research at MIT while working with Prof. Eric Alm. Dr. Matus will share how her company analyzes sewage with molecular technologies and AI to provide early warning of population health threats across the globe.

While the FoundHer Stories series is focused on supporting women innovators and entrepreneurs, all are welcome to register.

Please register in advance.

OUR SPEAKER

Mariana Matus, Ph.D., is the co-founder and CEO of Biobot Analytics. Originally from Mexico City, Mariana received her PhD from the Department of Biological Engineering at MIT in Computational Biology, where she specialized in the emerging field of wastewater epidemiology. In addition to her doctoral studies, Mariana co-founded the MIT Underworlds Smart Sewers Project, leading the vision and funding for a $4M interdisciplinary research project with collaborators from MIT s Department of Urban Studies and Planning. This work led to the creation of Biobot Analytics and set the scientific foundation for Biobot s wastewater platform, which is now serving the CDC and communities across all 50 US states. Mariana plans to expand Biobot s venture backed platform, which has secured $30M in funding, into countries all over the globe. Dr. Matus has been recognized for her leadership and entrepreneurial excellence through several awards. In 2020, she was named to the C&EN Trailblazing Women in Chemistry. She made Newsweek s list of America s 50 Greatest Disruptors in 2021, and their list of America s 50 Enterprising Idealists in 2022. Boston Globe named Dr. Matus #8 on their inaugural 50 Tech Power Players list for 2022, and most recently she was honored to be featured on the 2022 TIME100 NEXT list as an industry innovator.

https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/98076227954

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Aug

09

FoundHer Stories | A Fireside Chat with Nishita Deka

Online - 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Northwestern University's Querrey InQbation Lab is hosting the FoundHer Stories series to amplify the startup stories of women scientist entrepreneurs.

Learn about Dr. Nishita Deka s experience spinning out Sonera in 2018 while pursuing her doctorate at UC Berkeley. Dr. Deka will share how her company is building high-performance biomagnetic sensors for detecting muscle and brain activity, with the goal of building commercially viable non-invasive brain-computer interfaces.

While the FoundHer Stories series is focused on supporting women innovators and entrepreneurs, all are welcome to register.

Please register in advance.

OUR SPEAKER

Nishita Deka, Ph.D., is the co-founder and CEO of Sonera. She co-founded Sonera to commercialize a novel magnetic sensing technology for human-computer interfaces, with applications ranging from next-generation interaction modalities for personal computing to advanced healthcare monitoring and diagnostic tools. Nishita earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. She has a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California. At Berkeley, she focused on the design and fabrication of nanoscale devices for MEMS and sensing applications.

https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/98353333202

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