Congressional Biomedical Research Caucus Briefings

Remember the ice bucket challenge? Did you, like millions of Americans, dump cold water on your head to help raise funds for research into ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis)? Since the

Join the Congressional Biomedical Research Caucus as Dr. Weaver, a nationally distinguished virologist, explains what the Zika virus is. Dr. Weaver will discuss the outbreaks caused by this mosquito-borne virus

Dr. Mark Fishman of the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, discusses several current programs in drug discovery that promise to change the practice of medicine. Each grew from basic science

One of the features of many cancers is the loss of genome integrity. One of the most stunning examples of this is chromothripsis. Chromothripsis involves the shuffling or rearrangement of

Scientific dogma for decades has dictated that once a cell dies it cannot be resurrected. Dr. Denise Montell discusses her groundbreaking discovery that overturns this widely held belief. What she

Every day, the human body replaces an estimated 10 billion cells lost to injury or ordinary cellular housekeeping. More dramatically, cut a worm into two fragments and each fragment regenerates

Dr. Kim Lewis from Northeastern University discusses how we are experiencing a human health crisis due to the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. There are strains of tuberculosis and certain bacteria,

The Congressional Biomedical Research Caucus on How We Protect U.S. Citizens from Contagious Diseases in the Age of Globalization. Our distinguished speaker is Dr. Peter Hotez from Baylor College of