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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; color: rgb(192, 0, 0);">Come and Join us for Coffee and Conversation</span></b><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-family: Corbel, sans-serif;"><font size="3" class="">Hosted by MIT-PDA Human Affairs Committee</font></span></b><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></b><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img apple-inline="yes" id="475FA372-E460-49D8-B18E-1CC71FEF3966" height="112" width="206" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:image001.png@01D3DA2B.1780C400" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: rgb(192, 0, 0);">Date and Time:</span></b><b class=""><span class="" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></b><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif;">25 July 2018, Wednesday @ 4.00 - 5.00 PM</span></b><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: rgb(192, 0, 0);">Location: </span></b><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif;">76-359</span></b><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif;"> (Koch Institute, 3rd floor large conference room) </span><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: rgb(192, 0, 0);">Special Guest:</span></b><b class=""><span class="" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"> Dr. Sushma Gurumurthy, Principal Scientist at MODERNA THERAPEUTICS, Cambridge</span></b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b class="" style="font-size: 11pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif;">Meet other postdocs and talk to our special guest;<b class=""> Dr. Sushma Gurumurthy.</b></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif;">Ask questions about work-life balance and life beyond MIT or anything else. Get a different perspective on your life. Enjoy coffee and snacks.</span><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><font class="" size="4"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; color: rgb(192, 0, 0);"><font class="">Guest Bio: </font></span></b><span class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-family: Corbel, sans-serif;"><font class="" size="4"><br class=""></font></span></b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font face="Corbel" class="" size="4"><b class="">Dr. Sushma Gurumurthy</b> is currently a Principal Scientist at Moderna Therapeutics in Cambridge where she is responsible for the design and discovery of mRNA drug candidates for immunotherapy of Acute Myeloid Leukemia. Prior to Moderna, she served in the capacity of Research Scientist II at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute working on target validation and biomarker development for novel immune-oncology candidates - a collaboration with <i class="">Janssen</i>. Another important contribution that she made was an established functional genomics platforms to identify durable dependencies in human gastric cancers - a collaboration with <i class="">Sanofi</i>. She was a Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School, MGH Cancer Centre. She also supervised a research on functions of tumor suppressor Lkb1 in hematopoietic stem cell biology, skin, and pancreatic cancers modeling IDH mutations in Cholangiocarcinoma. Sushma earned her Ph.D. in Cancer Biology from the University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY along with an M.Sc in Environmental Toxicology from the University of Madras, India.</font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font face="Corbel" class="" size="4"><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font face="Corbel" class="" size="4"><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font face="Corbel" class="" size="4"><br class=""></font></div></body></html>