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Professional Coalition for Research Progress: 2017 Meeting » Agenda

 • Agenda
NIH Natcher Conference Center, NIH Campus

Time Event Speaker(s)
9:00 – 9:30 a.m. Registration
9:30 – 10:15 a.m. Opening Remarks and Dialogue with the Director Josh Gordon, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, NIMH
10:15 – 10:30 a.m. Experimental Therapeutics Approach to Interventions Sarah Lisanby, M.D.
Director, Division of Translational Research, NIMH
10:30 – 11:00 a.m. Experimental Therapeutics Guided Discussion Mi Hillefors, M.D., Ph.D.
Program Officer, Adult Pathophysiology and Biological Interventions Development Branch, NIMH
Meg Grabb, Ph.D.
Program Officer, Division of Neuroscience and Basic Behavioral Science, NIMH
11:00 – 11:15 a.m. Break
11:15 – 11:30 a.m. Research Domain Criteria Update Bruce Cuthbert, Ph.D
Director, Research Domain Criteria Unit, NIH
11:30 – 11:45 a.m. Toward a Balanced Research Portfolio Josh Gordon, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, NIMH
11:45 – 12:00 p.m. Dialogue, Questions & Answers All Participants
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Networking Lunch
Concurrent Discussions  
1:00 – 1:45 p.m.

NIMH Portfolio Balance
Room F1/F2

Research Domain Criteria
Room E1/E2

Shelli Avenevoli, Ph.D.
Deputy Director, NIMH

Uma Vaidyanathan, Ph.D.
Scientific Program Manager, Research Domain Criteria, NIMH
Jenny Pacheco, Ph.D.
Scientific Program Manager, Research Domain Criteria, NIMH

1:45 – 2:15 p.m. Reconvene for Guided Discussion Reports
Room E1/E2
All Participants
2:15 – 2:45 p.m. Dialogue, Questions, and Answers  All Participants
2:45 p.m. Adjourn Joshua Gordon, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, NIMH