Britton Chance Center for Biomedical Photonics (BC CBMP) International Business and Scientific Advisory Board Meeting
Thursday-Saturday 12-14 April 2007
Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics (WNLO),
Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan, P.R. China
Wednesday 11 April
Check in Wuhan Lakeview Garden Hotel, Hongshan 115, Luoyu Road, Wuhan
Thursday 12 April
Board Meeting, Room A301@WNLO
Opening Ceremony Chair: Wei LIU, Vice president of HUST 08:00 to 09:00
Welcome Remarks Chaohui YE, Director of WNLO，Academician of Chinese
Academy of Sciences
Conferring certificates of appointment by Mayor Xiansheng LI
and President Peigen LI
Britton CHANCE, University of Pennsylvania
Da Hsuan FENG, The University of Texas at Dallas
Qingming LUO, Director of BC CBMP
Welcome Speech Converging of Engineering and Medicine: HUST
Responsibilities in the 21st Century, Peigen LI, President of
Huazhong University of Science and Technology and
Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering
Group Photo and Coffee Break 09:00 to 09:30
Board Meeting, Room A301@WNLO
Chair: Da Hsuan FENG, The University of Texas at Dallas
R&D Reports in BC CBMP (I) Overview of the Britton Chance center: what, why
and how, Qingming LUO, Director of BC CBMP
09:30 to 10:00
R&D Reports in BC CBMP (II) Optical molecular imaging: from optical probes to
instrumentation, Shaoqun ZENG, BC CBMP
10:00 to 10:30
R&D Reports in BC CBMP (III) Optical imaging approaches in cognitive
neuroscience,Pengcheng LI, BC CBMP
10:30 to 11:00
Lab tour (2 groups), Building G@WNLO 11:10 to 12:10
Lunch Break, Wuhan Lakeview Garden Hotel 12:20 to 13:00
Executive Session for the Board, Room D302@WNLO 14:00 to 15:40
Open Discussion Chair: Da Hsuan FENG (Robert’s rules)
Brief Summary Britton CHANCE
Coffee Break 15:40 to 16:00
Special Lecture to College of Life Science and Technology, Room A301@WNLO
Chair: Shaoqun ZENG, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Pattern Formation in the Cerebellum, Richard HAWKES, Faculty of Medicine,
University of Calgary (Canada) 14:45 to 15:45
Special Lectures, Room A301@WNLO
Chair: Jianquan YAO, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tianjin
University
Key role of high-tech in medicine, history analysis in cardiac electrophysiology,
Ruey-Jen SUNG, Vice President and Professor of Cardiology, Cheng Kung University,
Tainan 16:00 to 16:30
Technology development and tech transfer experience in CapitalBio, Jing CHENG,
Founder and CEO & CTO of CapitalBio, Director of National Engineering Research
Center for Beijing Biochip Technology 16:30 to 17:00
Responsibilities of 21st century research universities (especially US and China) in
the global landscape, Da Hsuan FENG, The University of Texas at Dallas
17:00 to 17:30
Banquet hosted by HUST and Hubei Provincial Science & Technology
Department, Ramada Plaza Optics Valley Hotel Wuhan 18:00 to 19:00
Speech by Yuquan Zhu, the Chairman of HUST committee
Chair: Yanjie Wang, Chief of Hubei Provincial Science & Technology Department
18:40 to 19:00
First PUBLIC Nobel Lecture, Auditorium No.1, HUST Convention Center
Why our proteins have to die so we shall live, Aaron CIECHANOVER, 2004
Nobel laureate in Chemistry, Vascular and Tumor Biology Research Center, The
Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and Research Institute, Technion-Israel Institute of
Technology Chair: Jing CHENG, Cheung Kong Professor of Ministry of Education
and Director of Medical Systems Biology Research Center, Tsinghua University
School of Medicine 19:30 to 21:00
Friday 13 April
Special Lectures, Room A301@WNLO
Chair: Jing CHENG, Cheung Kong Professor of Ministry of Education and
Director of Medical Systems Biology Research Center, Tsinghua University
School of Medicine
Accelerating translational research and the transfer of technology to the
commercial cycle: "Bridging the valley of death". A. Stephen DAHMS, President
and CEO of the Alfred E. Mann Foundation for Biomedical Engineering
08:30 to 09:00
Intellectual property and academic research: how to mesh the two seamlessly?
Howard CHEN Esq., Partner, K&L Gates 09:00 to 09:30
Publication trends in 21st century Biotechnology, Steven GOODMAN, University of
Texas at Dallas 09:30 to 10:00
Announcement of a new journal: Journal of Biomedical Photonics (JBP), K K
PHUA,Founder and CEO of World Scientific Publications Corporation 10:00 to 10:10
Coffee Break 10:10 to 10:20
Board Meeting, Room D302@WNLO
Critique of the White Paper for the BC CBMP, organized by Da Hsuan FENG
10:20 to 11:50
Summary and Farewell, Qingming LUO 11:50 to 12:00
Lunch break, Bai Jing Yuan Restaurant 12:00 to 13:30
City Tour (Hubei Provincial Museum and Yellow Crane Tower) 14:00 to 18:00
Buffet Dinner, Wuhan Lakeview Garden Hotel 18:30 to 19:00
Second PUBLIC Lecture, Auditorium No.1, HUST Convention Center 19:00 to 20:30
"Metabolism as the Guiding Light" in diabetes, stem cell and cancer studies, Britton
CHANCE, Ph.D., Sc.D. (Cantab.), M.D. (Hon), Eldridge Reeves Johnson University
Professor Emeritus of Biophysics, Physical Chemistry, and Radiologic Physics, Member
of the National Academy of Sciences, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, Member of
the American Philosophical Society
Chair: Qingming LUO, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Saturday 14 April
Workshop on Breast Cancer: A Public Health Menace in China and the World
Room A301@WNLO
Chair: Shoko NIOKA, University of Pennsylvania
Epidemiology of breast cancer in China, Jesse HUANG, Professor of Epidemiology,
Assistant President and Dean for Continuing Medical Education, Peking Union Medical
College (Medical Branch of Tsinghua University) and Chinese Academy of Medical
Sciences 08:30 to 09:15
Optical handheld home care scanner for breast cancer, Britton CHANCE, University
of Pennsylvania 09:15 to 10:00
Coffee Break 10:00 to 10:10
Practical breast MRI-applications and interventions for clinical practice, Olivia Ho
Cheng, President/CEO, Aurora Imaging Technology (USA) 10:10 to 10:55
Clinical practice of mammography and breast MRI in Wuhan Union Hospital, Fan
Yang, Wuhan Union Hospital, HUST, Wuhan, China 10:55 to 11:40
Summary by Shoko Nioka, University of Pennsylvania 11:40 to 11:50
