Bridges in Life Sciences is an international, multidisciplinary network linking scientists, funders and grantmakers in the exploration of innovation and technology transfer for public benefit.
To build networks between researchers at Cedars-Sinai and those in Central and Eastern Europe, a number of events have been scheduled through the Bridges in Life Sciences research networking organization:
Oct. 14-16, 2004, Bucharest, Romania, Research Networking Meeting on HIV/AIDS and Related Conditions
Following are PowerPoint presentations from the Technology Transfer Workshop at this meeting:
- Technology Transfer Workshop agenda
- James D. Laur, Esq. Deputy General Counsel, Legal Affairs, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Technology Transfer Workshop, Part 2: Why You Have to Protect Intellectual Properties
- Technology Transfer Workshop, Part 3: Industry Relationships
- Sandor G. Vari, MD, International Research Network Manager, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Technology Transfer Workshop, Part 4: Research and Innovation
Following are other PowerPoint presentations from the first day presentation:
Following are PowerPoint presentations from the second day's morning sessions:
- Dr. Rob Stevens, Technical Assistance for Improving the Romanian System for Epidemiological Surveillance and Control of Communicable Diseases, HLSP Consulting, Barcelona, "PHARE Communicable Disease Surveillance Programme in Romania"
- Brygida Knysz, Wroclaw Medical University, "HIV/AIDS in the CEE Region: An Epidemiological Picture"
- Tim A. Clary, PhD, Senior Technical and Policy Advisor, HIV/AIDS Reproductive Health, USAID Mission to Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova, "US-CEE Research Networking Meeting on HIV/AIDS and Related Conditions: International Efforts -- USAID"
- Nancy Calles, RN, Baylor Black Sea Foundation, Romania
- Thomas E. Novotny, MD, MPH, Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, Institute for Global Health, "HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe: Policy Development -- Barriers and Directions for Success"
- Professor Costin Cernescu, Institute of Virology, Bucharest
- Cristian Vladescu, Center for Health Policies and Services, "Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Romanian Experience"
Following are PowerPoint presentations for the second day's afternoon sessions:
- Cristian L. Achim, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Pathology and Neurology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
- Marek Radkowski, MD, PhD, Head, Department of Immunopathology, Institute of Infectious Diseases, Medical Academy in Warsaw, "Hepatitis C Virus Co-infection in HIV-Infected Patients: Evidence of Extrahepatic Replication in Monocytes/Macrophages"
- Daria Podlekareva, Copenhagen HIV Programme (CHIP), Hvidovre University Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark
- Tomasz Laskus, MD, PhD, SC Johnson Medical Research Sj-3, Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, Scottsdale, Arizona, "Evidence for Hepatitis C Virus Neuroinvasion and Effect of Infection on Gene Expression Patterns"
Following are the PowerPoint presentations for the third day's sessions:
- Sana Loue, JD, PhD, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, "Integrating Methods and Models in HIV Behavioral Research"
- Simona Ruta, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Institute of Virology, Bucharest, "The Pediatric AIDS Epidemic in Romania"
- V. Anna Gyarmathy PhD, MS, MPH, Principal Investigator, National Development and Research Institutes, Institute for International Research on Youth at Risk, New York, NY, "Young Drug Users and HIV Risk in Budapest, Hungary"
- Dr. Carlo Giaquinto, Chair, PENTA Steering Committee, "Paediatric European Network for Treatment of AIDS (PENTA)"
Following are PowerPoint presentations from this meeting:
- Ákos Detrekoi, "Managing Partnerships between Universities and Industries in Central and Eastern Europe"
- Bela Racz, "Szeged University"
- Carlos Encinas, MBA, PhD, Technology Transfer Science Officer, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, "How to Generate Income"
- Erno Duda, President, Hungarian Biotechnology Association, "Advances in Life Sciences"
- Gabor Szabo, Director, Institute of Engineering & Materials Sciences, University of Szeged, "Moving to Pasteur's Quadrant; Basic and Applied Research in the University Environment"
- Hugh Penfold, MIHIR, "Transferring Technology & Partnering with Industry: How to Become a Partner of Choice"
- James D. Laur, Esq., Deputy General Counsel, Legal Affairs Department, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, "Strategies for Marketing Biotechnologies"
- James D. Laur, Esq., "Why You Have to Protect Intellectual Properties"
- László Gergely, MBA, Director of Business Development, Theodore Puskás Foundation, Institute of International Technology (PTA NETI), "Entrepreneurship & Technology Transfer"
- Péter Németh, Department of Immunology and Biotechnology, University of Pécs, and Steering Committee, South Transdanubian Regional Innovation Strategy "What is the Future of Intellectual Properties at the Universities?"
- Sandor G. Vari, MD, International Research Network Manager, Burns and Allen Research Institute, Department of Academic Affairs, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, "Small Business Innovation Research Grant As A Model To Support Spin Off Companies' Innovation"
- Tivadar Lippényi, National Office for Research and Technology, "Regional Strategies for Research and Technology in Hungary"
Bridges in Life Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, May 12-14, 2004
Bridges in Life Sciences, Bratislava, Slovak Republic, May 10-11, 2004
Following are PowerPoint presentations from this meeting:
- Mária Dusinská, Research Base of Slovak Medical University - Institute of Preventive and Clinical Medicine, Bratislava, Slovakia, "Screening Methods for Assessing the Exposure of Human Population to Genotoxins"
- László Gulácsi, Associate Professor, Budapest University of Economic Sciences Unit of Health Economics and Health Technology Assessment (HunHTA), "Low Birth Weight in the Economics of Health Care"
- Calvin J. Hobel, MD, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, "Women's Health Continuum"
- Danuta Krotoski, PhD, Acting Associate Director, Office of Prevention Research and International Programs, NICHD, NIH, HHS, "NICHD Research in Women's and Children's Health"
- Ferenc Paulin, MD, DMSc, 2nd Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Semmelweis University, Budapest, "Preterm Delivery and Low Birth Weight Infants -- Big Challenge for Obstetrics and for Society in Hungary"
- Dr. Danuta Mieldzinska, Head, and Dr. Ewa Siwinska, Deputy Head, Environmental Mutagenesis Laboratory, Institute of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health, Department of Genetic Toxicology, Sosnowic, Poland
- Rostyslav Soika, Institute of Cell Biology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and Alexander Lutsyk, Lviv National Medical University, Lviv, Ukraine, "Risk Factors for Low Birth Weight in Ukraine"
- Tomas Trnovec, MD, PhD, DSc, Slovak Medical University, Institute of Preventive and Clinical Medicine, Bratislava, "Associations between Nutrition, Environmental Risk Factors, Lifestyle and the Onset of Puberty"
Bridges in Life Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, Oct. 8-10, 2003
Since 1998, Cedars-Sinai has had an educational program for innovation management and intellectual property protection. This program first focused on building strong institutional relationships with four medical universities in Hungary. Events and activities included:
- Meetings in Los Angeles for research faculty members from Cedars-Sinai and the Hungarian universities to meet
- Site visits to each medical university in Hungary to provide basic training and educational materials on Cedars-Sinai's technology transfer program
- A major meeting in Budapest co-hosted by Cedars-Sinai and the Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The meeting was called "Bridges in Life Sciences." Participants from more than 10 Central European countries attended seminars on grantsmanship by the NIH, innovation management by Cedars-Sinai as well as a series of focused meetings on various scientific topics.
After the Bridges in Life Sciences meeting, Cedars-Sinai was approached by researchers from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Lithuania, Romania and the Slovak Republic about offering similar training in innovation management to academic institutions in their countries.
Training programs for the medical and life sciences faculties in those countries are now planned. The core of the program is a formal Technology Transfer Workshop. After attending the workshop, participants are empowered with the resources necessary to implement a technology transfer program at their institution. This enables them to identify, capture and protect discoveries their faculty make so that the technology can be licensed out and produce royalty revenue.
