Film Online Premiere and Related Panel 

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Title:    BEATING SUPERBUGS: CAN WE WIN?

Date:    Thursday, 11 February 2021

Time:   4:30 PM (PST); 7:30 PM (EST); total program (2 hrs.)

 

"Beating Superbugs" (click to watch)  the film (1 hr. 7 mins.)

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"Beating Superbugs" panel discussion (click to watch) (1 hr. 8 mins.)

     Produced by the AV Department, UC San Diego

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1. "New and Renewed Antibiotics," Dr. Helen Boucher

2. "Beyond Antibiotics," Dr. James Collins

3. "Collaborators vs. Superbugs," Dr. Scott Podolsky

4. "Superbugs and COVID-19," Dr. Muhammad Zaman

 

MODERATOR:

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Dr. Victor Nizet, MD, Distinguished Professor & Vice Chair for Basic Research, Department of Pediatrics; Distinguished Professor, Skaggs School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences;

Chief, Division of Host-Microbe Systems & Therapeutics; Faculty Lead, Collaborative to Halt Antibiotic-Resistant Microbes (CHARM), UCSD

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PANELISTS: 

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Dr. Helen Boucher, MD, Director, Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program; Chief, Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases; Director, Levy Center for Integrated Management of Antimicrobial Resistance (CIMAR), Tufts University

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Dr. James Collins, PhD, Termeer Professor of Bioengineering, Department of Biological Engineering and Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, MIT; also affiliated with the Broad Institute and the Wyss Institute.

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Dr. Scott H. Podolsky, MD, Professor, Department of Social Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital;  Professor, Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School 

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Dr. Muhammad Zaman, PhD, Professor, Boston University, Biomedical Engineering; Lab research: Systems Biology of Cancer, Cell Adhesion and Migration in 3D environments, Cellular Mechanics

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Panel Video Credits:

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          Lara Sievert, Sr. Producer/Director, ITS Audio-Visual Event Services, UCSD

          Ericka Anderson, PhD, Managing Director, CHARM, UCSD

          Victor Nizet, MD (see Moderator above) 

          Elizabeth Lampley, Phage Therapy Program Coordinator, IPATH, UCSD
 

Event Sponsors:

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University of California Global Health Institute (UCGHI)

UC San Diego Collaborative to Halt Antibiotic-Resistant Microbes (CHARM)

UC San Diego Center for Innovative Phage Applications and Therapeutics (IPATH)

Recombinant Films, LLC, Berkeley, CA

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After Feb. 11, see film: "BEATING SUPERBUGS: CAN WE WIN?" on

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and separately,

see panel: "Panel Discussion of BEATING SUPERBUGS" (click here)

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