May 4, 2007

MGH Clinical Research Day

The fifth annual MGH Clinical Research Day will be held May 17 with the theme "Transforming Clinical Research through Genetics and Genomics." The day will begin at 8 am in the O'Keeffe Auditorium with a presentation by guest speaker Aravinda Chakravarti, PhD, director of the Center for Complex Disease Genomics at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and president elect of the American Society of Human Genetics. At 10:45 am, a poster session will be held in the Bulfinch Tents. In the afternoon, two Genetics courses will be offered in the Richard B. Simches Research Center.

For more information about the day's events, call (617) 726-1669, e-mail crpedu@partners.org or visit www2.massgeneral.org/crp/docs/clinicalresearchdayschedule2007.htm. For more information or to register for the afternoon courses, visit hub.partners.org/catalog/crp-geneticliteracy and
hub.partners.org/catalog/crp-2007-openhelix.