June 10

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08:00 – 09:00

Session IX: Bringing Systems Biology to the Clinic

A Hospital Biobank, Electronic Health Records, and Personalized Renal Medicine
Erwin Boettinger, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA

Integrating Molecular Markers in Clinical Decision Analysis
John Sedor, Case Western Reserve, Cleveland, USA 

9:00 – 10:30

Session X: Selected presentations from meeting posters

A High-throughput Approach to Primary Murine Podocyte Characterization Mirrors its Highly Specialized Kidney Function
Hauke Busch, LifeNet, FRIAS, Freiburg, Germany

In Silico Nano-dissection: Defining Cell Type Specificity at Transcriptional Level in Human Disease
Wenjun Ju, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

PodNet – A Podocyte Protein Interaction Network for the Analysis of Expression Data
Gregor Warsow, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Oxygen and Progression of Acquired Nephropathies
Maja Lindenmeyer, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Studies Towards Development of an Integrated Network Model of the Renal Response to Acid pH
Cristina Furdui, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, USA

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee Break in Poster Area

11:00 – 12:45

Session X: Translation2

Genetic Testing in Chronic Renal Disease, Challenges and Opportunities
Jeffrey Kopp, National Institutes of Health NIDDK, Bethesda, USA

Brave New World: Do We Really Want to Know All This? Ethical and Social Impacts of Genomic Research in Nephrology
Scott Roberts, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

Round Table Industry/Funding Agencies:
Re-connecting to the Source: Strategies to Bridge the Gap Between Academic Target Identification and Drug Development, the Industry Perspective

12:45 – 13:00

Closing Remarks