Speakers in AACC / ASCLS Annual Meetings and Clinical Lab Expo 2009

Dr. Jerome E. Groopman holds the Dina and Raphael Recanati Chair of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School and is Chief of Experimental Medicine at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Dr. Groopman’s research has on blood development, cancer, and AIDS. Currently, his laboratory research involves understanding how blood and vascular cells grow, communicate and migrate. He also is studying how viruses cause immune deficiency and cancer, the role of endocannabinoids in hematopoiesis, mechanisms of liver injury due to hepatitis C virus, and the effects of novel cell cycle inhibitors against mantle cell lymphoma. Dr. Groopman most recent book, How Doctors Think, explores how physicians arrive at the correct diagnosis and treatment, and whey

Dr. Agre was as Faculty member at John Hopkins School of Medicine in 1984, he moved to Duke University School of Medicine in 2005 as Vice Chancellor for Science and Technology and then he returned to Johns Hopkins in 2008 as University Professor and Director of the Malaria Research Institute in the Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Agre's research led to the first known membrane defects in congenital hemolytic anemias and produced the first isolation of the Rh blood group antigens. In 1992, Agre's lab became widely recognized for discovering the aquaporins, a family of water channel proteins found throughout nature and responsible for numerous physiological processes in humans. Aquaporins have been implicated in multiple clinical disor

Dr. Kenneth Murphy is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and is Professor of Pathology and Immunology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. His work has focused on lineage choices within the immune system, with special interest in T cell development. In addition, his laboratory is interested in early fate choices during embryonic development, such as the mechanisms that generate mesoderm, from which the entire immune system is derived. Current projects in T cell development include analysis of several knockout mice for several new transcription factors that are expressed in a highly polarized manner in T cell subsets.