[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 233 (Tuesday, December 5, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 70520]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-20577]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

National Institutes of Health


Second Annual Philip S. Chen, Jr. Distinguished Lecture on 
Innovation and Technology Transfer

AGENCY: National Institutes of Health, Public Health Service, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Office of the Director, NIH, invites you to the second 
annual Philip S. Chen, Jr., Ph.D. Distinguished Lecture on Innovation 
and Technology Transfer.

DATES: Friday, January 26, 2007, at 1 p.m.

ADDRESSES: NIH campus, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda MD, NIH Clinical 
Center (Building 10), Lipsett Auditorium.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information, sign 
language interpretation or accommodation for disabilities, please 
contact Colleen Crone at 301-496-1921 or [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Dr. Douglas R. Lowy will present ``The 
Science, Technology and Promise of Preventive HPV Vaccines.'' Dr. Lowy 
is Chief of the Basic Research Laboratory and the Laboratory of 
Cellular Oncology at the NCI Center for Cancer Research, where he also 
serves as deputy director. With colleagues at NIH, he developed the 
original technology on which the Merck HPV vaccine, Gardasil[supreg], 
is based.
    This annual series honors Dr. Philip S. Chen, Jr. for his almost 50 
years of service to the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Chen 
established NIH's Office of Technology Transfer in 1986 to implement 
the Federal Technology Transfer Act. The inventions in the Office of 
Technology Transfer's intellectual property portfolio are crucial in 
advancing the NIH mission--making important discoveries that improve 
health and save lives.

    Dated: November 27, 2006.
Bonny Harbinger,
Deputy Director, Office of Technology Transfer, National Institutes of 
Health.
[FR Doc. E6-20577 Filed 12-4-06; 8:45 am]
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