Meetings

Meeting Announcements

Louisiana Obesity Society Conference set for Aug. 10 in New Orleans

Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Meeting Announcement

The Louisiana Obesity Society and the Louisiana Chapter of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery will host the 2024 Louisiana Obesity Conference on Saturday, Aug. 10, in New Orleans at the Renaissance Arts Hotel.

SUNY College of Optometry focuses on diversity and inclusion in optometry

State University of New York College of Optometry
Meeting Announcement

SUNY College of Optometry in NYC hosted the 7th installment in its RACE IN OPTOMETRY webinar series. A distinguished panel of speakers provided their insights and thoughts on the topic of Race in Optoemtry, looking both to the past and ahead to the future through a lens of what is happening in today's world. Guest keynote speaker was the Chancellor for all SUNY Schools, Dr. John B. King Jr

ETRI revolutionizes 6G core network signal processing

National Research Council of Science & Technology
Meeting Announcement

Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) announced that they showcased their latest research results at the “6G Symposium Spring 2024” held in Oulu, Finland, from April 9 to 11, drawing the attention of attendees.

Funder: Ministry of Science and ICT

Revived technology used to count individual photons from distant galaxies

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Meeting Announcement

Enabled by a U.S. Department of Energy program, a collaboration of scientists from Fermilab, UChicago, NOIRLab and other institutions demonstrated that skipper-CCD detectors can be utilized to improve cosmology research.

NexusXp™ – SLAS’s new interactive pavilion at SLAS2025 will showcase automation integration and collaboration

SLAS (Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening)
Meeting Announcement

The Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) will launch NexusXp, its new interactive pavilion at SLAS2025 to showcase collaborative and integrated lab automation scenarios.

Insilico Medicine leadership team shares insights on AI-powered healthcare innovation at 2024 Summer Davos

InSilico Medicine
Meeting Announcement

Insilico Medicine (“Insilico”), a clinical-stage generative artificial intelligence (AI)-driven drug discovery company, announces that the co-CEOs of the company – Alex Zhavoronkov, PhD, and Feng Ren, PhD – will be attending the 15th Annual Meeting of the New Champions, also known as Summer Davos hosted by the World Economic Forum, in Dalian, China, from 25 to 27 June 2024.

NASA astronaut Woody Hoburg to deliver keynote address at ISSRDC focused on developing a space workforce

International Space Station U.S. National Laboratory
Meeting Announcement

NASA astronaut Warren “Woody” Hoburg will deliver a keynote address at the International Space Station Research and Development Conference (ISSRDC) in Boston on Thursday, August 1, 2024. Hoburg has close ties to Boston as a graduate and former assistant professor of aeronautics and astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Mental health leaders to gather for international summit on suicide prevention

Henry Ford Health
Meeting Announcement

Mental health experts from across the globe will gather to share insights, best practices, and innovations for preventing suicide during the 5th Zero Suicide International Summit June 24-25 in Liverpool, England. For the first time the summit will feature Zero Suicide programs and opportunities in low-and middle-income countries, with a special focus on Asia, where more than half of all global suicides occur.

NASA Associate Administrator Jim Free to deliver keynote address at ISSRDC

International Space Station U.S. National Laboratory
Meeting Announcement

Jim Free, associate administrator for NASA, will deliver a keynote address on Wednesday, July 31, at the International Space Station Research and Development Conference (ISSRDC) in Boston. Free, the senior advisor to Administrator Bill Nelson and Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy, is NASA’s third highest-ranking executive and its highest-ranking civil servant. In addition to leading the agency’s 10 center directors and the mission directorate associate administrators at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C., he acts as chief operating officer for more than 18,000 employees.

Scientists and policymakers aim to tackle complex global issues at the nexus of science and diplomacy

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Meeting Announcement

Trieste, Italy — The World Academy of Sciences for the advancement of science in developing countries (TWAS) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), one of the world’s largest general scientific societies and publisher of the Science family of journals, will host 19 scientists and policymakers from 11 countries, including Cameroon, Guatemala, Nepal and Sudan, in Trieste, Italy, for the 11th AAAS-TWAS Course on Science Diplomacy on June 18-20, 2024.

Study led by UChicago Medicine physician finds new treatment for ulcerative colitis

University of Chicago Medical Center
Meeting Announcement

People with ulcerative colitis may soon have a new medication available to help them, thanks to a global study led by University of Chicago Medicine's David T. Rubin, MD.

Children’s Tumor Foundation presents the 2024 Global NF Conference in Brussels: Shaping what’s next for NF

Children's Tumor Foundation
Meeting Announcement

The 2024 Global NF Conference is the leading event for advancing the scientific and medical understanding of neurofibromatosis and schwannomatosis. Held from June 20-25 in Brussels, Belgium, this conference will gather over 1,000 participants to share the latest knowledge and insights in NF research and care, highlighting significant progress in developing effective treatments for patients.

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