[Mitworld] Scolnick on Research in Psychiatric Illnesses, Huang on Rural China

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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 8, Number 50 |  August 5, 2009

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New Frontiers in Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder Research
May 4, 2009

Edward Scolnick hopes the research drought for psychiatric illnesses may be over, as the current revolution in human genetics opens wide a door into the molecular biology and brain physiology behind diseases like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/687

Speaker:
Edward Scolnick
Director, Psychiatric Disease Program and the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute


Event Host:
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences

"For the first time, science has the ability to unravel the underlying causes of severe mental illness ... For the first time in the history of the field, there’s a way forward that can lead to significant improvement in diagnosis and therapy, and there’s no place in the world better than this university to carry out the work."
-Edward Scolnick

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Global and Domestic Imbalances: Why Rural China is the Key
June 6, 2009

Yasheng Huang’s research reveals not only how small-scale rural businesses created China’s economic miracle but how that nation’s recovery from the global recession and righting the massive East-West trade imbalance depend on this same under-acknowledged sector.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/692

Speaker:
Yasheng Huang
China Program Associate Professor in International Management, and Founder, China-India Lab, MIT Sloan



Event Host:
MIT Sloan School of Management

"I worry about the ideological fallout from the U.S. financial crisis when government is now viewed 
as the savior. It is in the context of the U.S.  But for China and India, the main issue continues to be liberalization rather than government assuming more roles in economic management. I’m worried people will learn the wrong lesson from this crisis, and believe government should play a bigger role. "
-Yasheng Huang

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In The Pipeline:

MIT Perspective on Engineering Systems

Presented By:
Engineering Systems Division
 International Engineering Systems Symposium

Speaker:
Subra Suresh
Dean, MIT School of Engineering

Yossi Sheffi
Director, Engineering Systems Division

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