2013 Round 2 Exchange Awards Winners

The University of Maryland Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation (M-CERSI) has recently announced four 1-day conferences that will take place at the Baltimore or College Park campuses:

Regulatory Issues in Personalized Medicine and Pharmacogenomics - Alan Schuldiner, Associate Dean for Personalized Medicine, UMD School of Medicine and Michael Pacanowski, Office of Clinical Pharmacology, FDA.

AIMBE/NIH Workshop on Validation and Qualification of New In Vitro Tools and Models for the Pre-clinical Discovery Process - William Bentley, Distinguished Professor and Chair of Fischell Department of Bioengineering, UMCP.

Human Reliability Analysis Applied to Medical Device Use-Related Hazards - Monifa Vaughn-Cooke, Assistant Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering, UMCP.

M-CERSI as a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) with the Medical Device Innovation Consortium - William Bentley, Distinguished Professor and Chair of Fischell Department of Bioengineering, UMCP.

The aim of this series of M-CERSI conferences is to promote scientific exchange between the FDA scientists and academic scientists, as well as industrial scientists. These topics represent unresolved issues in regulatory science that have been identified by University of Maryland faculty. Conferences are open to the public and will take place during Spring and Fall of 2013. Dates of conferences will be posted to www.cersi.umd.edu under the events calendar.

Published March 11, 2013