March 18-21, 2004
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Cold Spring Harbor, New York
In late March 2004, more than 130 Doris Duke clinical scientists congregated on the unexpectedly snowy campus of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory to attend the fourth Doris Duke Clinical Scientist meeting.
Joan Spero chats with
Laurence Demers (2002
ICRA) and Michael
Ackerman (2000 CSDA).
After welcoming introductions on the opening Thursday evening by Joan E. Spero, the foundation’s president, attendees spent the next two days presenting their research at platform and poster sessions and participated in forums and discussion groups on the benefits of academic-pharmaceutical partnerships, conflicts of interest in clinical research, and balancing career and family.
Scientific sessions began in earnest on Friday morning, with opening remarks by the Medical Research Program’s Scientific Advisory Council chair David G. Nathan, President Emeritus of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, followed by presentations by the 2002 Distinguished Clinical Scientist Award winners.
David Nathan and keynote
speaker Joseph Goldstein
take time out for a photo.
Interjected among these talks was the keynote address by Dr. Joseph Goldstein, Chairman of Molecular Genetics at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and winner of the 1985 Nobel Prize in Physiology.
Dr. Goldstein counseled young clinical investigators to select engaging mentors and to be boldly curious with their scientific questions. He also spoke of the benefit and importance of collaborations.
Featured scientific talks by DDCF grantees continued throughout the second day, and culminated with an animated early evening discussion on NIH’s road map for supporting clinical research led by Dr. Steven Straus, Director of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine at the NIH.
The last evening ended with a performance by the New Jazz Composers Octet, a recipient of a grant from the foundation’s Arts Program.
Charis Eng (2002 DCSA), Olufunmilayo Olopade (2000 DCSA), William Hahn (2000 CSDA), and Dan Haber (2002 DCSA) chat at the poster session.