An opportunity to showcase the diversity of collaborations with North America, to discuss common challenges in biomedical research and to introduce the new director of our office in Washington DC.
Program: Inserm Agenda 60 Years
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9:00
Opening Session
- His Excellency Ambassador Laurent Bili (Ambassador of France to the United States)
- Didier Samuel (Chairman and CEO of Inserm)
9:30
60 Years of Scientific Cooperation
- Pascal Griset (President of Inserm’s History Committee, Professor at Sorbonne University)
- Kim Pelis (Director of the Office of NIH History and Stetten Museum)
10:00
Keynote Speech
- Michel Sadelain (Director of the Center for Cell Engineering Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center)
10:30
Coffee break
10:45
Round Table – Emerging Infectious Diseases: Bridging Transatlantic Efforts
Chairs:
- Yazdan Yazdanpanah (Director of the Institute for Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Inserm, Director ANRS EID)
- Cliff Lane (Deputy Director for Clinical Research and Special Projects, NIAID)
Speakers:
- Jeanne Marrazzo (Director of the NIAID)
- Vittoria Colizza (Sorbonne University, Research Director Inserm U1136)
11:45
Joint Opportunities Under Horizon Europe
- Elli Chatzopoulou (Director of National and International Partnerships, Inserm)
- Florent Bernard (Science Counsellor at the European Union Delegation in Washington DC)
- Douglas Millay (Associate Professor at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital)
12:15
Lunch
1:30
Round Table – Frontiers of Neurology and Mental Health: a French-American Dialogue
Chairs:
- Etienne Hirsch (Director of the Institute for Neurosciences, Cognitive Sciences, Neurology, Psychiatry, Inserm)
- Nora Volkow (Director of NIDA)
Speakers:
- George Koob (Director of NIAAA)
- Leonardo Cubillos (Director of the Center for Global Mental Health Research, NIMH)
- Marion Leboyer (Head of Department Inserm U955, Paris-Est Créteil University)
- Mickael Naassila (Head of Inserm unit 1247, Picardie University)
2:30
Research Ethics: Discussing current challenges
- François Hirsch (Member of the Ethics Committee, Inserm)
- Jill Fisher (Professor, Center for Bioethics, University of North Carolina)
3:00
Coffee break
3:15
Round Table – Environment, Climate and Health Research: Sustainable Collaborative Strategies
Chairs:
- Robert Barouki (Paris-Cité University, APHP, Director of Public Health at Inserm)
- David Balshaw (Director of the Division of Extramural Research and Training, NIEHS)
Speakers:
- Gary Miller (Director, Center for Innovative Exposomics at Columbia University),
- Paige Lawrence (Professor and Chair Environmental Medicine, Director Institute of Human Healthand the Environment, University of Rochester)
- Robert Wright (Co-Director, Mount Sinai Institute for Exposomic Research & Chair, Department of Environmental Medicine)
- Rémy Slama (Senior Investigator, Inserm, IBENS, PARSEC – Paris Recherche Santé Environnement Climat)
- Arthur David (Professor at EHESP, Research Chair at Irset-Inserm U1085)
4:15
International Joint Labs: a new Inserm initiative to enhance collaborations
- Didier Samuel (Chairman and CEO of Inserm)
- José Alain Sahel (Distinguished Professor and Chairman, Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine)
- Signing of Joint Lab agreements and remarks by representatives of University of Pittsburgh, Université Laval and University of Ottawa
5:00
Inserm International Award and Keynote of the Laureate
5:20
Closing Remarks
