Plenary Sessions 2 & 3

Moderator: Amy Newman, Ph.D., NIDA Acting Scientific Director

Carlos Zarate Jr., M.D. Chief, NIMH Experimental Therapeutics & Pathophysiology Branch
Antidepressant Drug Discovery: Taking the Road Less Traveled

Lauren Atlas, Ph.D. Investigator, NCCIH Section on Affective Neuroscience and Pain
How Psychological Factors Influence Responses to Pain and Opioid Analgesics

George Koob, Ph.D. NIAAA Director Chief, NIDA Neurobiology of Addiction Section
Opioid Addiction: “The Gain in the Brain Is in the Pain”

Andrew Mannes, M.D. Chief, Clinical Center Department of Perioperative Medicine
Non-opioid Therapy for Treating Severe, Refractory Cancer Pain

Plenary Session III. Celebrating Cutting Edge Technologies at the IRP

Moderator: Bruce Tromberg, Ph.D., NIBIB Director

Adam Phillippy, Ph.D. Head, NHGRI Genome Informatics Section
Can Nanopore Sequencing Finally Finish the Human Genome?

Elizabeth Kang, M.D. Head, Hematotherapeutics Unit, Genetic Immunotherapy Section, LCIM, NIAID
Genetically Modified Cells for Chronic Granulomatous Disease: Moving Forward the Clinical Benefit

Hari Shroff, Ph.D. Senior Investigator, NIBIB Section on High Resolution Optical Imaging
Faster, Sharper, Deeper, Longer: New Optical and Computational Techniques for Use in Biomedical Imaging

Hannah Valantine, M.D. Senior Investigator, NHLBI Laboratory of Transplantation Genomics
The Liquid Biopsy: Cell-Free DNA for Early Detection of Organ Rejection

For more information go to https://researchfestival.nih.gov/2019