NIH Research Festival 2012 Program - Research Festival - National ...
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Concurrent Symposia Session II<br />
Natcher Conference Center<br />
Conference Room F<br />
<strong>NIH</strong> Translational <strong>Research</strong> Interest Group<br />
Health disparities: Advances in translational,<br />
clinical, and population sciences<br />
Co-Chairs: Anil Wali, NCI; and Jeffrey Kopp, NIDDK<br />
Health Disparities are differences in health outcomes among population groups that reflect<br />
socio-economical, geographical and racial/ethnic inequalities. Biological, environmental<br />
and behavioral factors can lead to unequal disease burden in prevalence, incidence<br />
and mortality rates seen among medically underserved and vulnerable populations.<br />
This symposium is timely to take stock of implications of these factors on various<br />
disease manifestations and outcomes, and provide insights on the latest advances in<br />
combating them with high-throughput medical technologies. The symposium topic is<br />
of broad interest to <strong>NIH</strong> intramural investigators who are engaged in various aspects<br />
of trans-disciplinary efforts to understand the molecular basis of linkages between<br />
obesity, metabolomics, epigentics in population based studies. This symposium will<br />
serve as a scientific platform to exchange state-of-the-art information on racial/ethnic<br />
differences encountered in the translational setup from bench to bedside, and how<br />
these experimental approaches could improve the early detection, prevention and<br />
therapeutic strategies applicable to the communities.<br />
Cheryl Winkler, NCI<br />
Identification of APOL1 genetic variation explains much of the increased chronic<br />
kidney disease characteristic of African Americans<br />
Stefan Ambs, NCI<br />
A prognostic metabolome signature in breast tumors is linked to a distinct DNA<br />
methylation pattern in African-American and European-American patients<br />
Kevin Gardner, NCI<br />
Molecular Linkages between race, obesity and triple-negative breast cancer<br />
Charles Rotimi, NHGRI<br />
Ethnic differences in lipid distribution: Implications for disease risk and<br />
response to treatment<br />
Cristina Rabadan-Diehl, NHLBI<br />
Health disparities in cardiovascular disease: A global health perspective<br />
Wednesday, October 10, <strong>2012</strong><br />
10:00 a.m.–Noon<br />
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