Stony Brook life sciences summit

Among the panelists and keynote speakers at the Life Sciences Summit 2010 on Sept. 22-23 at Stony Brook University will be many local companies and experts  including Colin Goddard, former chief executive of OSI Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Melville.

Goddard -- seen above in 2005 in front of a building OSI was moving to -- speaks on "From Bench to Bedside: The Story of OSI Pharmaceuticals."

Two companies giving presentions are from the Island. They are NeoMatrix Formulations, of Stony Brook, and SetPoint Medical Corporation, Manhasset.

Speakers and panelists inclde:
-- Christine L Brakel, senior licensing specialist, patent agent, Brookhaven National Laboratory
-- Walter G. Copan, managing director, Office of Technology Commercialization and Partnerships, Brookhaven National Laboratory
-- Grigori Enikolopov, associate professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
-- Charles S. Ryan, vice president and chief intellectual property counsel, Forest Laboratories, Inc.

From Stony Brook University, numerous experts will speak. They include:
-- Jorge L. Benach, professor and director Center of Infectious Diseases
-- Paul M. Bingham, associate professor, Biochemistry and Cell Biology
-- Peter Brink, professor, chair, Physiology and Biophysics
-- Dr. Richard A. Clark, director, Center of Tissue Engineering
-- L. Craig Evinger, professor, Neurobiology and Behavior
-- A. Wali Karzai, associate professor, Biochemistry and Cell Biology
-- Dr. Kenneth Kaushansky, dean, School of Medicine
-- Dr. Yupo Ma, professor, Pathology
-- John H. Marburger III, vice president for research
-- Steven O. Smith, professor, Biochemistry, Cell Biology; director, Center for Structural Biology
-- Peter J. Tonge, professor, Chemistry, Institute for Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery
 
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