BRC Symposium 2025
Description
The 19th Annual Botulinum Research Center Symposium will be held August 13-15, 2025, in New Bedford, MA.
Theme: Non-Canonical Aspects of Botulinum Neurotoxin Sciences
Anticipated Presenters/Participants:
- John Bogdan, Jr., Cygnos Biotech/Valaria Technical Consultants, USA
- Dirk Dressler, Hanover Medical School, Germany
- Eric Johnson, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
- 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, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
- Thomas Binz, Hanover Medical School, Germany
*Additional participants/presenters will be added once confirmed.
Tentative Program:
Wednesday, August 13, 2025
7:00 pm (EST)
- Pre-symposium get-together and dinner
Thursday & Friday, August 14-15, 2025
8:00 am - 2:00 pm (EST)
- DasGupta Memorial Lecture - Kim Janda, Scripps Research
- Symposium Speech - Jane Talkington, Bradley University
- Distinguished Speech - Michael Adler, US Army Research Institute of Chemical Defense, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, USA
- Neurology and Neurodegenerative Diseases Session
- Presentations - John Bogdan, Jr., Patrick McNutt, Min Dong, Lei Wang, Ghuncha Ambrin, Raj Kumar, Gary Borodic, Andy Ress, Shuowei Cai [others TBA]
- Posters
- Inaugural Speech - TBA
- Panel - "Unexplored Aspects of Botulinum" [Potential Panelists include Klaus Fink, Gary Borodic, Patrick McNutt, Lance Steward, & Karen Bunting]
Location:
Wamsutta Club, 427 County Street, New Bedford, MA, USA & Zoom
Registration:
Please use the link above to register for the event.
Hotel Information:
Fairfield Inn & Suites - 185 Macarthur Drive, New Bedford, MA 02740
[within walking distance from the venue]
Phone: +1 (774) 634-2000
INADS Room Block - Discounted Rate Fairfield
Best Western - 737 State Road, North Dartmouth, MA 02747
[transportation will be provided, upon request]
Phone: +1 (508) 717-0424
INADS Room Block - Discounted Rate BW
Check the BRC Website for symposium announcements and additional information.
BRC Board of Advisors
- Michael Adler, US Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense
- Terry Bowlin, Microbiotix, Inc., USA
- Karen Bunting, Ipsen, UK
- Klaus Fink, Merz Pharma, Germany
- David Hodge, US Department of Homeland Security, USA
- Patrick McNutt, Wake Forest University, USA
- Shashi Sharma, US Food and Drug Administration, USA
- Lance Steward, Abbvie/Allergan, Irvine, CA, USA
- Kodumudi Venkateswaran, Omni Array Biotech, Inc., USA
Symposium Coordinators:
- Shuowei Cai, University of Massachuetts, Dartmouth, MA, USA - scai@umassd.edu
- Raj Kumar, Institute of Advanced Sciences, Dartmouth, MA, USA - rkumar@inads.org