Open lecture - "The NIH Microphysiological Systems Program: Tissue Chips as Innovative Tools for Drug Development"

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Alastair Stewart

astew@unimelb.edu.au

Open lecture hosted by the ARC Centre for Personalised Therapeutics Technologies and the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Note: Refreshments to follow

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Dr Danilo Tagle

Dr Danilo Tagle (Associate Director of Special Initiatives, National Institutes of Health (NIH) - National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), USA) will be presenting on "The NIH Microphysiological Systems Program: Tissue Chips as Innovative Tools for Drug Development".

Dr Tagle also recently served as Acting Deputy Director of NCATS and has previously served as Acting Director of the NCATS Office of Grants Management and Scientific Review and as Executive Secretary to the NCATS Advisory Council and Cures Acceleration Network Review Board. Prior to joining NCATS, Dr Tagle was a Program Director for neurogenetics at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), where he was involved in developing programs concerning genomics-based approaches for basic and translational research in inherited brain disorders. Before NINDS, Dr Tagle was an investigator and section head of molecular neurogenetics at the National Human Genome Research Institute and has been highly involved in the highly collaborative effort toward the positional cloning of genes for Huntington's disease, ataxia-telangiectasia and Niemann-Pick disease type C. He has also served on numerous committees and advisory boards, including the editorial boards of the journals Gene and the International Journal of Biotechnology.

Dr Tagle obtained his PhD in molecular biology and genetics from Wayne State University School of Medicine in 1990. He was an NIH National Research Service Award postdoctoral fellow in human genetics in the laboratory of Dr Francis S Collins, MD, PhD, at the University of Michigan.