Annual Meeting 2009

The Pacific NorthWest Regional Center of Excellence held its Kickoff Meeting on Tuesday, March 3, 2009, on the West Campus of Oregon Health & Science University.  Opening remarks were provided by Joseph Robertson, M.D., President of Oregon Health & Science University, John Slattery, Ph.D., Vice Dean for Research & Graduate Education at University of Washington, Daniel Dorsa, Ph.D., Vice President of Research at Oregon Health & Science University and Nancy Haigwood, Ph.D., Director of Oregon National Primate Research Center. Each of the Principal Investigators gave a description of their research project or core. Scott Landfear, Ph.D. of Oregon Health & Science University, and Ashlee Moses, Ph.D. of Oregon Health & Science University, gave descriptions of the responses to the RFA’s posted for career development awards and developmental projects.  Rona Hirschberg, Ph.D. and Michael Schaefer, Ph.D. of NIH/NIAID, presented an overview of the RCE Program.    Jon Rue, University of Washington, presented the data dissemination, data sharing and computational infrastructure.  Please see agenda of meeting.

The next PNWRCE Annual Meeting will be held in Portland, Oregon on Tuesday,
October 5, 2010