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The Maryland Chapter Presents

Col. George W. Korch, Jr., Ph.D.

Commander, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID)

January 10, 2008

Col. Korch commands the lead medical research laboratory for the U.S. Biological Defense Research Program in Ft. Detrick, Maryland, which is actively engaged in collaborations with industry and academia to develop and commercialize medical technologies.  For many years, Col. Korch has engaged in research and program management for medical defense against biological pathogens used in terrorism and warfare, and was recently appointed by Governor O’Malley to the Maryland Life Sciences Advisory Board.  We are honored to have Col. Korch speak at our first Chapter meeting of the New Year, on the topic of

Biological Terrorism and Biological Warfare
USAMRIID's Role in Developing Medical Countermeasures

Meeting Location

The University of Maryland’s New Bioscience Research Building on the College Park Campus.

Hosted by the UM College of Chemical and Life Sciences

Special Pre-Meeting Feature!

Dedicated just this past September, the new Bioscience Research Building has 68,000 square feet of laboratory space to meet the needs of 33 faculty-led research groups.  With two Biosafety Level-3 labs, a 475-seat lecture hall and conference rooms for teaching and professional meetings, each of the four levels of the building is dedicated to a different area of research:  plant molecular and cell biology on the ground floor; neuroscience on the first floor; genomics on the second floor; and host-pathogen interactions on the third floor.  Associate Dean Robert Infantino has graciously offered to be our guide for a private tour of the facility immediately prior to the start of the meeting.

Directions for tonight's LES Maryland Chapter meeting:
Click on this link http://www.parking.umd.edu/themap/ for an interactive map of the UMCP campus.  We will meet in the Biosciences Research Building (413), which is immediately north of and physically adjacent to the Biology Psychology Building (144), facing the quadrangle, and next to the Microbiology Building (231).  Also facing the quadrangle is Hornbake Library (147). Public parking for our event is conveniently available just a short walk away in the Union Lane Parking Garage (179) north of Stamp Student Union (163). 

For our private tour of the building, we will gather beneath the colonnade on the quadrangle in front of the building at 5:00 pm.

Please contact Curtis Gore at LES, cgore@les.org, if you will be attending the pre-meeting tour.  Space is limited!

Thanks to our Event Sponsor: 

Meeting Format:
5:00 – 6:00 pm – Private Tour of Bioscience Research Building
6:00 - 7:30 pm - Social Hour & Networking
7:30 - 8:30 pm – Speaker Presentation
8:30 - 9:00 pm – Networking & Coffee and Dessert

Convenient Parking at the Stamp Union Lane Garage
http://www.union.umd.edu/visitorInfo/parking.shtml

Dress:  Business, Business Casual

$55.00  LES Members at the door
$60.00  Non-Members at the door

For more information, please contact:

Henry N. Wixon, Maryland Chapter Chair
E-mail: henry.wixon@wilmerhale.com
Phone: (410) 986-2894

or

Catherine E. Vorwald, Immediate Past Chair
E-mail: cevorwald@comcast.net
Mobile phone: (443) 739-7549

TALK TO US ABOUT SPONSORING A FUTURE CHAPTER EVENT!!