Discovery Series Events

August 19: Advancing the University’s Research Mission through Multidisciplinarity in Biomedicine
NextGen Discovery Series | Christopher Contag, Ph.D

March 10: Strengthening NextGen Medical Informatics Highways
NextGen Discovery Series | Russ Waitman, PhD

February 10: NextGen Precision Health: Where are we now? Where are we going?
NextGen Discovery Series | Richard J. Barohn, MD

April 6: Precision Health and Implementation Science
NextGen Discovery Series | Anne Evelyn Sales, PhD, MSN, RN

June 8: The Genomics Core at MU and NextGen Precision Health
NextGen Discovery Series | Wes Warren, PhD

July 8: The Wash U Precision Health Experience
NextGen Discovery Series | Christina Gurnett, MD, PhD

September 22: Cores of discovery: How Thermo Fisher and NextGen are partnering on the resolution revolution
NextGen Discovery Series | Clarissa Durie, MU; Zachary Berndsen, MU; Jeff Lengyel, Thermo Fisher; David Wall, Thermo Fisher

October 20, 2021: Precision Addiction Science Research at the University of Missouri
NextGen Discovery Series | Brett Froeliger, PhD,

November 16: Healthy Aging, Healthy Lifestyle and Reduced Risk of Dementia
NextGen Discovery Series | Hemachandra Reddy, Ph.D

January 11: Precision Nutrition: Optimizing Food Intake to Support Health
NextGen Discovery Series | Dr. Elizabeth Parks, PhD

March 8: Oxygen, stress, and antioxidants: Should we be scared of reactive oxygen species?
NextGen Discovery Series | Dr. Ron Mittler

April 19th: Growing Team Science: Building biochemistry into the human connect me project
NextGen Discovery Series | Melissa Terpstra, PhD

July 14, 2022: Studying Alcohol and Cannabis Use in Daily Life
NextGen Discovery Series | Denis McCarthy, PhD

Jan. 17, 2023: Lifestyle Modifications to Improve Liver and Cardiometabolic Health
NextGen Discovery Series | R. Scott Rector, PhD

March 20, 2023: The Perivascular Neuro-Immuno-Adipose Axis in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
NextGen Discovery Series | Erika Boerman, Ph.D.

April 13, 2023: Overcoming Challenges of Using Swine Models for Neurodegenerative Diseases
NextGen Discovery Series | Kiho Lee, Ph.D.

August 9, 2022: Zebras No More – Studying Autism in a Time of Increasing Prevalence
NextGen Discovery Series | Stephen Sheinkopf, PhD

September 6, 2022: Anti-Gal: The Life and Times of Our Species’ Most Abundant Antibody
NextGen Discovery Series | Uri Galili, PhD

Oct. 13, 2022: Human Health and Soil Health: Facts, Fiction and Future
NextGen Discovery Series | Dr. Jordon Wade

NextGen Discovery Series - April 9, 2024
“Chemistry in the Service of Biomedicine: Using Light to Control Biology and the Delivery of Therapeutics” presented by Dr. Simon Friedman, April 9.

June 25, 2024: Could a Common Condition Called POTS Explain My Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?
NextGen Discovery Series | Tae Hwan Chung, MD

August 14, 2024: Decoding the Chemistry Behind Alzheimer’s Disease Therapies
NextGen Discovery Series | Michael R. Nichols, PhD

September 24, 2024: Gene-Based Therapies for Neurodevelopmental Disorders
NextGen Discovery Series | Yael Weiss, MD, PhD

March 12, 2024: The Holy Grail: Therapy and Mechanism of Spinal Muscular Atrophy
NextGen Discovery Series | Arthur Burghes, Ph.D.

Feb. 14, 2024: Improving Improvement: Generalizable Lessons of Improvement from Surgery
NextGen Discovery Series | Clifford Ko, MD

Jan. 23, 2024: “How Much Dietary Protein is Too Much?”
NextGen Discovery Series | Bettina Mittendorfer, Ph.D.

Dec. 12, 2023: Patient-Generated Home Blood Pressure Data in the Electronic Health Record: Make it Usable, Make it Actionable
NextGen Discovery Series | Richelle Koopman, M.D.

Nov. 7, 2023: Developing a Microbial-Based Immunotherapy Against Pancreatic Cancer
NextGen Discovery Series | Chiswili Yves Chabu, Ph.D.

Sept. 13, 2023: Lessons from Simons Foundation Programs in Autism Research
NextGen Discovery Series | Kelsey Martin, M.D., Ph.D.

Aug. 9, 2023: I Know Mom Is OK: Next-Generation Precision Health Care for Older Adults
NextGen Discovery Series | Rachel Proffitt, OTD, OTR/L

July 11, 2023: How Diet and Exercise Influence Cardiometabolic Health and Microbiome Interactions
NextGen Discovery Series | Jaapna Dhillon, Ph.D.

June 5, 2023:The Current State of Missouri’s Overdose Crisis and Recent Mitigation Strategies
NextGen Discovery Series | Rachel P. Winograd, Ph.D.

May 25, 2023: Precision Medicine in Respiratory Disease: from Biomarkers to Building Consortiums
NextGen Discovery Series | Anke-Hilse Maitland-van der Zee, Ph.D.

May 11, 2023: Targeting paracrine factors: from mechanisms to next-generation therapy for vascular anomalies
NextGen Discovery Series | Johanna Laakkonen, Ph.D.

October 2, 2024: Using Bioactive Glass to Rapidly Stop Bleeding for Injuries in the Field
NextGen Discovery Series | Mark Towler, PhD