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Back from Aspen: New Video Featuring Scott Johnson
If you weren’t able to fly out to Aspen this weekend to join our President and founder Scott Johnson at the annual Aspen Ideas Festival, check out this video. Do you have any ideas of your own? Tell us what you think!
Aspen Ideas Festival 2010: Scott Johnson Discusses Problems with Bringing Drugs to the Market
Two heads are better than one. So, with this logic, a gathering of many minds is sure to yield ideas far more innovative and creative than a single mind ever could. Thus, the creation of the Aspen Ideas Festival, an event where the President and founder of the Myelin Repair Foundation, Scott Johnson,...
The Gordon Conference on Myelin
Back in February, an atypical group of tourists–some 150 myelin biologists from around the world—converged on Ventura, CA (a destination usually reserved for world class surfers and horse and dirt track car racing aficionados.) They were there to attend the Gordon Conference on Myelin, the world’s...
A Hosted Forum on “Where Are The Cures?”
On Tuesday, March 9th at 9:00 am Pacific Time, PatientsLikeMe’s forum will be focused on the topic of our newest initiative Where Are The Cures? , which is concerned with bringing a greater understanding of the barriers slowing the discovery and development of new patient treatments in all diseases. PatientsLikeMe...
Scott Johnson Speaking at Charité Entrepreneurship Summit: March 16, Berlin, Germany
For our supporters in Europe MRF Founder & President, Scott Johnson, will be coming to Berlin to speak to the Charité Biomedical Entrepreneurship Summit in Berlin, Germany on Tuesday, March 16th. He will be speaking on the topics of “How to Enable Medical Innovations: The Role of Foundations”...
Innovators in Healthcare and Medical Research
Thursday February 25th I had the pleasure of attending the Wharton Healthcare Business Conference in Philadelphia. The theme of this year’s conference is “Breaking Barriers: Innovation Leading to Change.” The opening keynote address was given by Jeff Margolis, CEO of TriZetto. Mr. Margolis...
Myelin Repair Foundation at Partnering for Cures This Week
Rusty Bromley, COO at the Myelin Repair Foundation will be attending, presenting and sharing stories on our blog from the Faster Cures’s “Partnering for Cures” meeting in NYC this week (Dec 1 – 4, 2009). Here’s a description of the event from the Faster Cures website: Partnering...
Underpants Gnomes and the Traditional Medical Research Model
The Myelin Repair Foundation participated in the first grassroots organized BIL:PIL conference last week in San Diego. This is an “unconference” where the passionate advocates and entrepreneurs in the health and medical research movement shared ideas & tools, found new collaborations,...
Not a Top Down Solution
Scott Johnson, the founder and president of the Myelin Repair Foundation will be talking today at BIL:PIL in San Diego. His talk with be livestreamed at Medpage Today. He’s scheduled to talk around 11:30 AM Pacific Time. He will be covering the big problems in the current medical research system,...
MRF Scientists Rock!
Last week, the Myelin Repair Foundation held our 5th annual research meeting in the San Francisco Bay Area, where our researchers presented their results of the previous year. While we hold regular phone conferences with our labs at which our scientists share results and create new leads, our...
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