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April 9 - 11, 1999
Boston, Massachusetts

Sponsored by SmithKline Beecham & Global Business Network

Friday, April 9

8:00 Continental Breakfast

9:00 Welcome & Introduction
Shaun Jones MD

9:15 Introduction to the Future
Peter Schwartz

9:45 Biomimetics: The Next Wave
Donald Ingber MD PhD

10:15 Break

10:30 The Inner Universe of the Mind: Insights from Neurobiology
Patricia Goldman-Rakic PhD

11:00 Functional Genomics of Heritability and Individuality of Human
Longevity: A Centenarian Study
Eugenia Wang PhD

11:30 Panel discussion / Q & A with Ingber, Goldman-Rakic, Wang

Noon Lunch

1:30 Tissue Remodeling and Repair: A Nexus for Stem Cell Biology, Drug
Discovery, Gene Therapy and Materials Science
R. Sanders Williams MD

2:00 Ensemble Recordings of Neuronal Populations: A Window into
Understanding Cognition and How it Changes With Age
Carol Barnes PhD

2:30 Molecular Signatures of Cancer: Revolutionizing Cancer Research
Carol Dahl PhD

3:00 Break

3:15 Panel discussion / Q & A with Williams, Barnes, Dahl

3:45 Day's Overview
Peter Schwartz

4:15 Reception
Saturday, April 10

8:00 Continental Breakfast

9:00 Welcome & Introduction
Shaun Jones MD

9:15 Genetics and Advanced Computing: The Drivers of Systems Biology and
Molecular Medicine
George Poste DVM PhD

9:45 Exploring Very Large Genomes with a Very Small Aperture
Daniel Branton PhD

10:15 Break

10:30 Stem Cells, Nuclear Transfer and Cell Immortality
Michael West PhD

11:00 Thinking Yourself Well: Neuroimmunomodulatory Peptides
James Lipton PhD

11:30 Panel discussion / Q & A with Poste, Branton, West, Lipton

Noon Lunch

1:30 Extraordinary Manufacturing Capability
Jim Peoples BS ME & Brian Rosenberger BS

2:00 Medical Telesensor Application Specific Integrated Circuits
Tom Ferrell PhD

2:30 Replacement Parts for the Brain: A New Era of Neuro Prosthetics
Ted Berger PhD

3:00 Break

3:15 Panel discussion / Q & A with Peoples, Rosenberger, Ferrell, Berger

3:45 Day's Overview
Peter Schwartz

4:15 Adjourn

Sunday, April 11

8:00 Continental Breakfast

9:00 Welcome & Introduction
Shaun Jones MD

9:15 Our Assumptions about Future Healthcare: What if They are Wrong?
George Whitesides PhD

9:45 What is an Intermental Net and Why is It Different?
Dave Warner MD

10:15 Next Up? Ethical Guideposts for the Biomedical Revolution in the Twenty-First Century
Arthur Caplan PhD

10:45 Reperceiving Healthcare in a New Era of Possibilities
Peter Schwartz

11:15 Panel discussion / Q & A with Whitesides, Caplan, Warner, Schwartz

11:45 Adjourn