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First Neurogenomics Symposium A Hit

Many of the world's top geneticists and pharmaceutical experts assembled in the Research Triangle Park area April 24-26 for the first Annual Symposium on Neurogenomics. The group shared their insights on the new field that explores the genetic nature of brain disorders.

Organized by Cogent Neuroscience of Durham, the event included a keynote address by Dr. James Watson, who co-discovered the double helix structure of DNA and is currently president of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y. Watson co-received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1962 with Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins.

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Watson's keynote address over dinner at the Carolina Club in Chapel Hill focused largely on his observation that the key to solving human depression may lie in the research and discovery of chemical reactions that cause happiness.

Other attendees and speakers during the two-day event included Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute; Dr. Leroy Hood, president of the Institute for Systems Biology and inventor of the automated gene sequencer; Dr. Eric Lander, director of the Whitehead Institute at MIT's Center for Genome Research; Dr. Allen Roses, worldwide director of genetics for GlaxoSmithKline; and several others.

The North Carolina Biotechnology Center was one of many sponsors of the event, and co-hosts included Duke University Medical Center and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The symposium was such a success at bringing the world's geneticists together that Cogent Neuroscience announced a second one for next year. The event, slated for early May 2002, will be dubbed the "Symposium on Neurogenomics 2002," said Christy Russell, Cogent's manager of special projects.

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First Neurogenomics Symposium A Hit

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