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Biomedical - Bridging the gap

Researchers from disparate scientific disciplines will gather at Oak Ridge National Laboratory May 21-23 for a conference aimed at building global networks to tackle some of society's most challenging biomedical problems. The scientific theme is "Integrating Experiments, Simulations and Modeling for Biomedical Advances: From Single Molecules to Public Health Dynamics." India's Samir Brahmachari, director general of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, will deliver the keynote address. Plenary speakers are Viren Jain of Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chinnappa Kodira of GE Global Research and Grant Schaffner of the University of Cincinnati. ORNL's Georgia Tourassi, director of the Biomedical Science and Engineering Center, is the conference chair.