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Testimonials
from RNAi-2003-Boston Meeting Attendees
“Gave a update on the RNAi field.
Presentations were informative. Exhibits gave a good overview
of the companies working on RNAi. The turnout was excellent.”
- Dr. Frank Ruddle, Sterling Professor of Biology
and Genetics, Yale University.
“The RNAi meeting was very beneficial
to me and my laboratory as we launch our siRNA experiments
on the molecular pathogenesis of infectious diseases. The
contacts made during the meeting are invaluable.” -
Dr. L. Gary Adams, Professor and Associate Dean, Texas
A & M University.
“It was a very successful and
fruitful meeting, and I very much enjoyed it.” -Dr.
Masanori Aikawa, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School.
“I liked the organization of
the meeting, viz. from basic biology to applications.”
- Dr. Ronald Scheule, Director Gene Transfer Research,
Genzyme.
“Useful and very informative.”
- Dr. M. Dolle, National Institute of Public Health
and The environment, Netherlands.
“The meeting was stimulating
as well as encouraging. It was interactive and had breakthrough
data that helps us all.” - Dr. Ken Reed, Director
of Technology and Business development, Benitec Australia
Ltd.
“Attendance was great
and contained a broad range of topics within the field.”
- Dr. Tod Woolf, CEO, Sequitur, Inc.
“The meeting was very
well organized. I liked that many talks were relatively brief,
and covered so much ground. An excellent job overall.”
- Malorye Branca, Senior Informatics Editor, Bio-ITWorld
magazine.
“The presentations in
the meeting was at a very high level from both the academic
and technological standpoints, because most invited speakers
are working at the frontiers in the field of RNAi.”
- Dr. Hideo Akashi, Post-doctoral Fellow, The University
of Tokyo, Japan.
“Well organized, very information oriented-solving
of problems made easier by those presenting.”
- Krista Evans, Senior Associate Scientist, Avalon
Pharmaceuticals.
“Opened possibilities
for everyone, informative and useful overall.” - Dr.
Xinzhong Wang, Biogen.
“Very good meeting,
well run and organized with talks from academic and drug company
researchers.” - Jane Clarke, Amaxa Biosystems,
Inc.
“It was wonderful experience
to attend the RNAi-Boston meeting. The number of attendees
and quality of presentations are very impressive. “My
assessment is that this meeting represents the state-of-art
of RNAi development, for both fundamental science and technology
advancement”. The spirit and attitude for each player
in the field, particularly to industry players are positive
and cohesive.” - Dr. Patrick Lu, Founder &
Executive VP, Intradigm Corp.
“Since I am a graduate
student in academia the meeting was a great way to network
with scientists in biotech/pharma and get some insight into
the way research is conducted at those institutions. It was
also a great surprise to have all of the speakers presentations
available in the program book.” - Monica Vella,
Graduate Student, Yale University.
“By attending this meeting,
I got a good idea of where the field of siRNA is heading in
the near future, overall, the conference was interesting and
stimulating.” - Jason Hill, Graduate student,
Cleveland Clinic Foundation.
“Excellent meeting,
good speakers full coverage of subject.” - Ezra
Abrams, Director of New Technology, Apogent Discoveries.
“It was a great organizing
efforts.” - Dr. Ye Ding- Wodsworth Center, New
York State Health Department.
“Organization of secessions
and choice of speakers were excellent. I learnt a lot about
RNAi and able to establish connections with the leaders in
the RNAi field.” - Dr. Narayan K. Bhat- Principal
Scientist, SAICFrederick-National Cancer Institute.
“I very much enjoyed attending the RNAi
meeting and having the opportunity to be in touch with the
experts in this field to learn form their experience in applying
RNAi.”
- Dr. Heidi Geise, Genome Therapeutics Corp.
“It was very interesting
meeting for me to attend and know the newest situation of
advanced technology in RNAi field. Totally, it was very well
organized and arranged.” - Takuji Sekine, Nagase
& Co., Ltd. Japan.
“This was the best RNAi
meeting I went to this year, well organized and stimulating
scientific atmosphere.” - Dr. E. Lader, Global
Business Manager, Qiagen.
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