The 2016 SCBA DC Baltimore Chapter Annual Scientific Symposium convened in the Johns Hopkins University Shady Grove Conference Center situated in Rockville, Maryland on March 19, 2016. The goal of this meeting is to promote scientific communication/collaborations, as well as to provide the social network platforms for our local SCBA members. The meeting was chaired by Drs. Yufei Jiang (The secretory of SCBA DC Baltimore Chapter), Ji Luo (Investigator at NIH) and Wen Jin Wu (President of SCBA DC Baltimore Chapter). The topics covered developmental and cellular biology, virology and RNA biology, FDA regulatory science, cellular signaling, cancer immunology, and stem cells and cancer stem cells. A total of 98 local scientists, including students, postdocs, investigators and professors, from Johns Hopkins University, University of Maryland, Georgetown University, George Mason University, the Children's Research Institute, NIH and FDA, participated in this event. Nine investigators and professors from different research fields were invited to deliver faculty talks. The meeting also received a total of 27 abstracts; eight of them were selected for short talks. Five posters were selected as the winner for the best poster award. The additional files contain the selected slides from the opening/closing remarks, poster award ceremony, lectures. Very positive feedbacks have been received from the attendees, and we plan for our next symposium in 2017.

2016 Annual Symposium group photo

Poster Award Ceremony

Program Agenda