2004 Liaison With Industry Committee Report
The Liaison With Industry Committee (LWIC) met at the
Experimental Biology 2004 meeting in Washington, DC. The committee is
chaired by Glenn Reinhart and is composed of representatives from most of
the active Society Sections, nominated to serve by their sections. The
current committee membership is composed of Robert McCall (Neural Control
and Autonomic Regulation); Stephen Wood (Comparative Physiology); Jeffrey J.
Zachwieja (Environmental and Exercise Physiology); Peter Morsing (Renal);
Christine Schnackenburg (Water and Electrolyte Homeostasis); William Martin
(Central Nervous System); Joshua C. Anthony (Endocrinology and Metabolism);
Pamela I. Hornby (Gastrointestinal); Jodie Krontiris-Litowitz (Teaching of
Physiology); Chahraz Montrose-Rafizadeh (Cell and Molecular Physiology).
Workshop 2004: At EB 2004, the committee sponsored a
workshop titled, “High Content Biology: Multiplexing in Cell Physiology,”
organized and chaired by Chahrzad Montrose-Rafizadeh, held on the afternoon
of April 19, 2004. Speakers were A.F. Hoffman, P. Tagari, E.R. Mardis, and
R. Zivin; topics covered included: functional characterization of GPCRs in
models of obesity, signal transduction assays, high-throughput mutational
profiling in human samples and assessing patterns of phosphorylation as a
cellular response signature. This is the fourth workshop sponsored by the
Committee since its reorganization and we are pleased to report that
attendance was excellent.
The Fourth Annual Physiologists in Industry Mixer was
held April 19, again with seemingly record-breaking attendance. Thanks once
more to Linda Allen for sending timely email notices to those EB ‘04
registrants who identified themselves as working in Industry.
Novel Disease Model Award: The award typically
recognizes one graduate student ($500) and one postdoctoral fellow ($800)
submitting the best abstract describing a novel disease model. Two students
and six postdoctoral students applied (a total of eight abstracts were
received in 2003 (for 2004), an increase from six in 2002). The top two
abstracts included both a student and a post-doc and awards in both
categories were made.
Workshop 2005 (IUPS): Since the LWIC wishes to
continue its annual tradition of sponsoring high quality workshops/symposia
relevant to industry and academic physiologists alike, the committee
proposed a symposium on Metabolic Syndrome (“Metabolic Syndrome: From
Clinical Insights to New Therapies”) for IUPS ‘05. The symposium was
organized by Christine Schnackenberg and has commitments from four
international scientists. The workshop and has been programmed by the
International Scientific Programming Committee for IUPS 2005.
Miscellaneous: The committee remains committed to
raising the profile and participation of Industry scientists in APS and
recognizes Council’s initiative in directing the Sections to place their
LWIC representative on their respective programming committee. In addition,
the LWIC will work with the APS Education Officer to provide additional
membership benefits behind the Members Only firewall, including students and
postdocs, and will also rebuild the LWIC website, providing information on
careers in Industry-information that is important to trainees, their mentors
and APS Leadership. Another objective is for the LWIC web page to provide
web-based links to relevant APS Education and Careers pages, providing
members a seamless access to the various and important perspectives
regarding scientific research in the private sector.
Glenn A. Reinhart, Chair
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