Allison Traylor
Assistant Professor
College of Behavioral, Social, and Health Sciences
Clemson University

Whether your team is starting a new project, working to establish new norms, or setting expectations for new members, a team charter can help your team lay the foundation for success. A team charter is a codified plan for how a team will manage teamwork activities. Team charters are evidence-based and are associated with improved team performance. This hands-on workshop will describe the benefits of team charters and provide the resources necessary to implement an effective charter in your team.

Team consult opportunity:

Our Team Science Skills presenters have graciously opened their schedules to provide a limited amount of attendees with direct feedback and guidance on their personal team issues. During a one-hour consulting session, attendees will be able to directly ask our experts questions and get personalized advice on how to effectively move their team forward.  Requesters must attend the full session and complete the post-evaluation survey to be eligible. 

Join us for lunch to learn how to better leverage the incredible resources available via your IBB Core Facilities! Lunch provided for registered attendees. 

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Register Here! Complimentary registration required for all attendees. 

Rapid-fire and poster presentation submission deadline April 29

Registration (without abstract submission) is open through May 14.

Conference Agenda

• 8:00 a.m. - Registration/Breakfast
• 9:00 a.m. - Opening Remarks
• 9:15 a.m. - Abigail Wojtowicz, Medical Director, US Medical Strategy, Takeda
• 10:00 a.m. - Tina Dorr, Partner, Barnes & Thornburg Law
• 10:30 a.m. - Poster Session
• 11:45 a.m. - Cherry Wan, Senior Manager, Chemical Science, Alcon
• 12:15 p.m. - Lunch
• 1:15 p.m. - Bruno Marques, Senior Vice President, Technical Operations, Morphocell Technologies
• 2:00 p.m. - Rapid Fire Talks
• 3:00 p.m - Rapid Fire Presentations
• 4:00 p.m. - Career Panel Discussion
• 5:00 p.m. - Closing Remarks
• 5:10 p.m. - Reception and Award Ceremony
• 7:00 p.m. - Adjourn

REGISTER HERE to attend in-person.

Scott M. Bryant
Managing Partner
Hutchison Law

Scott is a managing partner of Hutchison, office manager of the firm’s Atlanta office, and co-chair of the firm’s Life Sciences practice. He represents life sciences and technology companies, venture capital funds and early stage investors, with a focus on venture capital and other equity and debt financings, licensing and technology transactions, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, securities, joint ventures and other complex transactions. Scott’s extensive legal experience and business background as a management consultant make him a key trusted advisor to C-suite executives and corporate boards of directors.

Join faculty from across the Georgia CTSA for an energetic and dynamic virtual networking session!

BIO
Marcela Maus grew up in New York, NY and attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology for her undergraduate degree in Biology and Literature. She then earned her MD, PhD from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine where she studied the biology of human T cell activation under the direction of her PhD mentor, Dr. Carl June. After completing her doctorate degrees, Marcela did a one-year postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. Kathy High at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia studying patient immune responses to liver-directed AAV-mediate gene transfer as a treatment for hemophilia. She then completed her clinical training in internal medicine, hematology, and oncology as a resident at the University of Pennsylvania Health System and a fellow at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. While at Memorial Sloan Kettering, she worked in Michel Sadelain’s lab to engineer new genetically modified T cells to target the cancer-testis antigen NY-ESO-1 and received specialized training in Phase I developmental therapeutics. She was also awarded a K08 grant by the NIH to facilitate her transition to a faculty position.

Following her extensive training (11 years), Marcela returned to the University of Pennsylvania in 2012, where she was recruited by her former PhD mentor, to expand their research efforts in the development of CAR T cells for lymphoma, myeloma, and other cancers. While there, Marcela continued her efforts on preclinical development of CAR T cells and correlative studies of CAR T cell-related toxicities and resistance to therapies. They discovered and reported on the first cases of anaphylaxis to CAR T cells and off target cross-reactivity. She also led an entire arc of translational research, from preclinical testing to a first-in-human clinical trial of EGFRvIII CAR T cells for treatment of recurrent glioblastoma. Correlative data collected from this trial led to an understanding of CAR T resistant mechanisms that have led further refinement of these CAR T cells, which is one current area of focus in her current laboratory and has led to the development of another Phase I clinical trial for GBM patients.

Now, Dr. Maus is a Professor of Hematology and Oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, where she runs a laboratory focused on developing and improving CAR T cell therapy for cancer patients while also periodically attending for the bone marrow transplant service. Marcela is the Paula O-Keeffe Endowed Chair of the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center and the Director of the Cellular Immunotherapy Program. She has won numerous awards for her transformative research and is achieving her goal of using science to determine the best way to treat patients by harnessing the power of the immune system to solve intractable problems like cancer. She also enjoys training clinicians and scientists and watching her mentees succeed and become independent scientists and collaborators.

Shawn Burke, Presenter

Establishing and maintaining a productive research team is a difficult challenge across all stages of an academic’s career. The science of good teamwork applies across an academic career: from incorporating graduate students and post-docs to your first research team to crossing-boundaries in the creation and maintenance of an interdisciplinary expert team. In conjunction with Georgia Clinical and Translational Science Alliance, we are offering a skill series to develop the skills necessary to build and maintain your research team by leveraging existing teams research. This workshop will focus on leadership within your team. Graduate students, post-docs, and all levels of academic faculty are all welcome to attend this workshop.

Team consult opportunity:

Our Team Science Skills presenters have graciously opened their schedules to provide a limited amount of attendees with direct feedback and guidance on their personal team issues. During a one-hour consulting session, attendees will be able to directly ask our experts questions and get personalized advice on how to effectively move their team forward.  Requesters must attend the full session and complete the post-evaluation survey to be eligible. 

• Do you have a patentable invention and want to protect it?
• Interested in commercializing your research either through licensing to an existing company or a startup?
• Want to learn about the commercialization resources available for entrepreneurs?

Stop by the IP and Commercialization Office Hours in the IBB atrium and meet with experts from the Office of Technology Licensing and Quadrant-i. We are at your service!  

The Experts:

• Cynthia Sundell, Senior Director of Life Sciences and Quadrant-i Principal
• Harold Solomon, Quadrant-i Principal
• Kashmira Kulkarni, Licensing Associate Office of Technology Licensing

• Do you have a patentable invention and want to protect it?
• Interested in commercializing your research either through licensing to an existing company or a startup?
• Want to learn about the commercialization resources available for entrepreneurs?

Stop by the IP and Commercialization Office Hours in the IBB atrium and meet with experts from the Office of Technology Licensing and Quadrant-i. We are at your service!  

The Experts:

• Cynthia Sundell, Senior Director of Life Sciences and Quadrant-i Principal
• Harold Solomon, Quadrant-i Principal
• Kashmira Kulkarni, Licensing Associate Office of Technology Licensing

• Do you have a patentable invention and want to protect it?
• Interested in commercializing your research either through licensing to an existing company or a startup?
• Want to learn about the commercialization resources available for entrepreneurs?

Stop by the IP and Commercialization Office Hours in the IBB atrium and meet with experts from the Office of Technology Licensing and Quadrant-i. We are at your service!  

The Experts:

• Cynthia Sundell, Senior Director of Life Sciences and Quadrant-i Principal
• Harold Solomon, Quadrant-i Principal
• Kashmira Kulkarni, Licensing Associate Office of Technology Licensing