Scientists and Regulatory Burden: Navigating the Rugged Landscape
Sponsored by the APS Public Affairs Committee
Saturday, April 18
3:15 PM-5:15 PM
Room 240/241
Chairs:
J.R. Haywood, Michigan State Univ.
Michael Portman, Children’s Hosp., Seattle
Speakers:
Sara Rockwell, Yale University School of Medicine
Robert J. Levine, Yale University
Nelson L. Garnett
Sally J. Rockey, National Institutes of Health

Improving NIH Peer Review: Maintaining the National Strategic Value of Peer Review
Sponsored by American Physiological Society, American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
Monday, April 20
5:45 PM-7:15 PM
Room 255-257
Chair: Virginia Miller, Mayo Clin. Col. of Med.
Speaker: Antonio Scarpa, National Institutes of Health, Center for Scientific Review

Walter C. Randall Lecture on Biomedical Ethics
Tuesday, April 21
2:00 PM-3:00 PM
Room 245
Peter H. Schwartz

ASBMB Public Policy Track Sessions
Symposium on Biomedical Infrastructure
Sunday, April 19
12:25 - 1:55 PM
Room: 346
*Ralph A. Bradshaw, University of California, San Francisco

The Evolution of Creationism
Sponsored by ASBMB, APS and ASPET
Monday, April 20
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: La Louisiane Ballroom (next to Exhibit Hall)
Chair: Greg Petsko, Brandeis University
Kenneth R. Miller, Brown University
Eugenie C. Scott, National Center for Science Education 
Barbara Forrest, Southeastern Louisiana University
Judge John E. Jones III, US District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania