Annual Translational Microbiome Conference 2015

Arrowhead Publishers, LLC is pleased to announce its 1st Annual Translational Microbiome Conference to be held May 13-14, 2015 in Boston. This Conference will focus on the potential for translational interventions in microbiome research and the challenges the industry will need to address to make this space successful. Therapeutic areas of research with potential for actionable interventions to be covered at this conference include:

Women's Health

Obesity and Type 2 diabetes

Pulmonology and COPD

Immunology and the Impact of C. diffiicle Infections

Dermatology

Periodontal Disease

SPEAKERS

CHAIRPERSON: Mollie Roth, JD, Managing Partner, PGx Consulting, LLC

Nadim Ajami, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Baylor College of Medicine, Project Director, Metanome

Pierre Belichard, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer, Enterome

J. Paul Brooks, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Statistical Sciences and Operations Research, Fellow, Center for the Study of Biological Complexity, Virginia Commonwealth University

Jim Brown, Ph.D., Director Computational Biology, GlaxoSmithKline

Kim Capone, Ph.D., Principal Scientist, Johnson & Johnson Consumer Products

and many more...

AGENDA

DAY ONE – MAY 14, 2015

7:45 am Registration/Continental Breakfast

8:20 am Chairperson's Opening Remarks

8:30 am Pioneering Approaches to Protect the Microbiome

9:00 am The Challenges of Developing Microbiome Biotherapeutics

9:30 am Restoring the Skin Microbiome: Ammonia Oxidizing Bacteria in Dermatology

10:30 am Challenges and Opportunities Developing Microbiome Drugs Based on Microbial Ecologies

11:00 am The Unique Nature Of The Microbiome: Planning For The Commercial Requirements

11:30 am To Fix IBD . . . Look at the Microbiome

12:00 pm Sponsored Presentation - ActobioticsTM: Designer Microbial Therapeutics