BRC Symposium 2024

Second Announcement

18th Annual Botulinum Research Center Symposium, August 14-16, 2024

Organized by the Botulinum Research Center at the Institute of Advanced Sciences, Dartmouth, MA.

Theme: 

Mechanisms of Various BoNTs at Various Targets

Anticipated Presenters/Participants:

John Bogdan, US Department of Defense

Dirk Dressler, Hanover Medical School, Germany

Eric Johnson, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Yukio Fujinaga, Kanazawa University, Germany

Michael Adler, US Army Research Institute of Chemical Defense, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, USA

John Barr, CDC, Atlanta, GA, USA

Gary Borodic, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Valeri Barsegov, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, MA, USA

Shuowei Cai, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, MA, USA

Min Dong, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Klaus Fink, Merz, Germany

Suzanne Kalb, CDC, Atlanta, GA, USA

Raj Kumar, Institute of Advanced Sciences, Dartmouth, MA, USA

Andy Pickett, Toxin Sciences, UK

Shashi Sharma, USFDA, College Park, MD, USA

Bal Ram Singh, Institute of Advanced Sciences, Dartmouth, MA, USA

Lei Wang, Prime Bio Inc., Dartmouth, MA, USA

Patrick McNutt, Wakeforest School of Medicine, USA

Thomas Binz, Hanover Medical School, Germany

Ghuncha Ambrin, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA

*Others to be announced

Tentative Program:

Wednesday, August 14, 2024, 7 PM (Eastern Standard Time, US)

• Pre-Symposium Get-Together and Dinner
  • Magic by Timothy Su
  • Music by John Bogdan
  • Movement by - TBA

Thursday – Friday, August 15-16, 2024, 8 AM – 2 PM (Eastern Standard Time, US)

• DasGupta Memorial Lecture – Joe Barbieri, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA
• Symposium Speech – Frederic Meunier, University of Queensland, Brisbane, AU
• Presentations
• Posters
• Distinguished Speech – Jim Marks, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
• Panel – "Mechanism to Medicine"

Venue: Wamsutta Club - located at 427 County St., New Bedford, MA & Zoom (hybrid)

• The meeting link for those attending the event virtually will be emailed to all registered attendees

Registration and Hotel Information: Fairfield Inn is within walking distance of the event. Transportation will be provided from the Residence Inn. For booking assistance at any of these three hotels listed below, feel free to reach out to keri@inads.org

*****PLEASE BOOK HOTEL RESERVATION BY FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 2024*****

Residence Inn - New Bedford/Dartmouth, MA 

• Please mention the "Singh" room block for a special discounted rate.

Fairfield Inn & Suites - New Bedford, MA (if they have availability)

Botulinum Research Center - Board of Advisors

Michael Adler, US Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, USA

Terry Bowlin, Microbiotix, Inc., USA

Karen Bunting, Ipsen, UK

Klaus Fink, MERZ Pharma, Germany

David Hodge, US Department of Homeland Security

Andy Pickett, Toxin Sciences Ltd., UK

Shashi Sharma, US Food and Drug Administration, College Park, MD, USA

Lance Steward, Abbvie/Allergan, Irvine, CA, USA

Kodumudi Venkateswaran, Omni Array Biotech, Inc., USA

*If you would like to present, please email the Symposium Coordinators listed below.

Symposium Coordinators

Shuowei Cai, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, MA, USA  scai@umassd.edu

Raj Kumar, Institute of Advanced Sciences, Dartmouth, MA, USA  rkumar@inads.org