Event Details
Event Title TraCS Tales of Translation: Stories of Real Life Scientific Translation - Colin O'Banion, PhD
Location Zoom
Sponsor NC TraCS (Translational and Clinical Sciences) Institute: NIH CTSA at UNC-CH
Date/Time 09/03/2020 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
For more information, contact the event administrator: Allison Rorie allison_rorie@med.unc.edu
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TraCS Tales of Translation features experienced scientists from academia and industry discussing the many twists and turns that are a part of research careers in the life sciences. Participating scientists will be asked to speak informally about their career decisions and pivot points, what translation means to them, and their advice for early stage researchers. This week's researcher is Colin O'Banion, PhD.

O'Banion grew up in western NY and went to the University of Rochester for his undergraduate degree where he studied neuroscience. He then worked in the laboratory ofNicholas Maragakis at Johns Hopkins University as a technician, studying the roles of glial precursor cells and astrocytes in the disease progression of ALS. Colin attended UNC-Chapel Hill for his graduate work in the lab of David Lawrence in the Eshelman School of Pharmacy division of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry where he developed optogenetic tools to control cell signaling and cell based, light mediated drug delivery platforms. After his postdoc at the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience where he worked on developing fluorescence lifetime sensors for imaging intracellular signaling, Colin decided to move to industry and is now working as the scientific lead of StrideBio's Rett syndrome program developing AAV gene therapies to treat this rare neurological disease.

There will be a Q&A session at the end.

UNC - Chapel Hill