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RSVP for Beer & Biotech Near YouOur fall schedule of Beer & Biotech events begins Thursday, September 6 in Memphis and will feature Dr. Burgess Freeman, Director of Preclinical Pharmacokinetics Shared Resource at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Here's our full September schedule (click the links for speaker information and to RSVP): Life Science Tennessee's Academic Alliance is the lead host of Beer & Biotech events. Each month, our members and friends socialize at a local pub or brewery to network with each other and hear about the latest life science news from featured speakers. If you plan to join us, we kindly ask that you RSVP. We hope to see you there!
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| LST Partner Events Building the Digital Infrastructure to Enable Genetic Medicine
Webinar | September 7, 10 AM PT (1 PM ET)We invite you to attend this webinar featuring Carlos Bustamante, Mara Aspinall and Gillian Hooker in advance of the Genetic Health Information Network Summit to further share key insights from the last meeting and prepare for the Summit in Nashville in October. Register today! MedTech Conference
Philadelphia | September 24-26Featuring world-class plenary speakers, a wide array of educational programming, valuable networking and business development opportunities, The MedTech Conference is a must-attend event for the industry’s prominent and most promising companies. Register today! Musculoskeletal New Ventures Conference
Memphis | October 23-24
Memphis makes its mark as a worldwide leader in the musculoskeletal industry by hosting the Musculoskeletal New Ventures Conference - MNVC. Join us as surgeons, venture capitalists, industry leaders and researchers gather for this one-of-a-kind opportunity to share information in the fast growing, dynamic and revolutionary field of musculoskeletal research.
SEBIO Investor & Partnering Forum
Atlanta | November 13-14
Join more than 300 biotech and medtech investors, corporate executives, university representatives and entrepreneurs for this year's Investor and Partnering Forum presented by SEBIO. If you're looking to build business partnerships, meet key decision makers and showcase your company, you won't want to miss this event. Registration and conference details can be found at www.southeastbio.org.
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LST News “Health:Further Festival” wraps-up today in Nashville
Did you know that the impact of the healthcare sector on Nashville’s economy is four times the impact of the sector that gives the city its famous nickname? That was among a number of interesting facts revealed by speakers at the opening session of the annual “Health:Further Festival” (H:F) in Nashville Monday afternoon. The event, for which PYA, the power behind teknovation.biz, is a major sponsor, concludes today. Hayley Hovious, President of the Nashville Health Care Council, cited the statistic about the impact of the healthcare sector as she welcomed attendees to the three-day event. “The music industry has a $10 billion annual impact, while healthcare has a $40 billion impact,” she said. UTHSC’s Miranda Receives Grant for Pediatric Bone Cancer Research
Susan Miranda, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery in the College of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), has received a one-year $99,918 grant from the St. Baldrick’s Foundation to continue her research into ways to prevent the growth of osteosarcoma cells by targeting estrogen signaling.The St. Baldrick’s Foundation is the largest private funder of childhood cancer research grants. This year, the foundation awarded 76 grants totaling more than $19.1 million to support physician-scientists studying innovative treatment options in pediatric cancer ORNL researchers enable real-time forensic analysis with new cybersecurity tool
As technology continues to evolve, cybersecurity threats do as well. To better safeguard digital information, a team of researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has developed Akatosh, a security analysis tool that works in conjunction with standard software to detect significant irregularities in computer networks.“Akatosh is a system that provides deeper context to existing IT infrastructure designed to solve security problems. It gives you a historical look of what’s changing on a computer over time.” said Jared Smith, a cybersecurity researcher in ORNL’s Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate (CCSD) who developed the new technology.
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