SCIENCE, POLICY, AND HOPE

COVID-19 Virtual Series

 

Welcome to the COVID-19 webinar series hosted by the Geisel School of Medicine and co-sponsored by Dartmouth Alumni Relations and Dartmouth's graduate schools. Each event will include time for discussion, and attendees are invited to submit questions during the session. See the full list of webinars in this series.

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BIOTECH-ACADEMIC PARTNERSHIPS
IN RESPONSE TO COVID-19   

Please join us and learn how a biotech entrepreneur and a basic scientist pivoted their research activities to fastrack testing and a potential treatment for the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more.   

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May 22, 2020
12:00–1:30 pm (ET)            

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Dale Chappell


Dale Chappell, MD, MBA, MED'99

Chief Scientific Officer, Humanigen
Founder, Black Horse Capital Advisors

David-Leib


David Leib, PhD
Chair, Department of Microbiology and Immunology

Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

Barry Schweitzer


Moderated by:
Barry Schweitzer, PhD, D’82

Senior Business Development and Licensing Manager 
Technology Transfer Office, Dartmouth College

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The acceleration of biomedical research and clinical trials in response to the COVID-19 pandemic is providing hope and revealing new opportunities for partnership between private industry and academic research labs. Dale Chappell, MD, MBA, MED’99 will discuss how his company, Humanigen, received FDA approval to test their lead cancer immunotherapy as a potential treatment for COVID-19. The drug is now in Phase III clinical trials at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and other academic hospitals across the U.S. Dartmouth virologist David Leib, PhD, will share how his lab collaborated with Atila Biosystems to validate a rapid, low-cost COVID-19 diagnostic test—which recenty received FDA emergency authorization and is being adopted by multiple countries. This discussion will be led by Barry Schweitzer, PhD, D’82, who oversees biomedical academic-industry partnerships for the Technology Transfer Office at Dartmouth College. Attendees are invited to submit questions during the webinar.

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May 22, 2020
12:00 – 1:30 pm (ET)           

 

Questions? Email Geisel.Alumni.Relations@dartmouth.edu


This series is hosted by the Geisel School of Medicine and co-sponsored by Dartmouth Alumni Relations and Dartmouth's graduate schools.