Conference Agenda

Wednesday, June 5th

2:00 PM Registration opens

3:00 PM Session 1: Welcome from SalivaDirect Inc, opening remarks SDI Updates

Speaker: Yasmine Ali

Professional affiliation: Executive Director, SalivaDirect Inc.

3:30 PM Session 2: The Opportunity for Salivary Diagnostics

3:30 PM “Performance of SalivaDirect plus assay along with the stability of the various viruses” Orchid Allicock, PhD
3:40 PM “Spit Happens! Opportunities and Challenges in the Adoption of Oral Fluids in Diagnostics” Maikel Boot, PhD
3:55 PM “Saliva in the Cloud! A Database to Investigate the Function of the Human Salivary Proteome” Marcelo Freire, DDS, PhD, DMedSC
4:10 PM “Viva Saliva: The power of saliva diagnostics!” Kat Holloway and Dajana Domik, PhD

Q+A for Speakers

4:40 PM Session 3: Funding Mechanisms and Opportunities

Moderator: Mostafa Analoui

5:40 PM Networking Reception sponsored by New England Biolabs

7:00 PM End of day

Thursday, June 6th

8:00 AM Breakfast and Networking

8:45 AM Registration Opens

9:00 AM Session 4: Innovation and Entrepreneurship

9:00 AM “Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx): Lessons from the Pandemic for Testing and Matrices” Shawn Mulvaney, PhD

9:20 AM “Infectious Disease Diagnostic Funding Opportunities inside NIAID” Paul Eder, PhD
9:40 AM "From Lab to Market: Innovative Commercialization Strategies" Fehmida Kapadia, PhD

Q+A for Speakers

10:05 AM Break sponsored by SimpliCheck

10:30 AM Session 5: Pandemic Preparedness and Biosecurity

10:30 AM “Better Testing Playbooks are Key to Pandemic-proofing our Future” Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM
10:45 AM "Building A Global Bioradar for Early Pathogen Detection and Characterization" Karen Hogan, PhD

Q+ A for Speakers

11:15 AM Session 6: Increasing Access Through Patient-Centered Diagnostics

11:45 AM “eRapid: Bringing Diagnostics Home” Jeong-Chan Lee, PhD
11:30 AM “Development of Oral Fluid Lateral Flow Immunoassay Home Platform” Aaron Palmon, DMD, PhD
11:45 AM “Using Vending Machines to Expand Laboratory Outreach for Saliva-based Respiratory Testing” Sarah Comstock, PhD, MB (ASCP)
12:00 PM “Health Equity and HIV / STI Engagement: Intentional Partnerships for Accessibility and Affordability” Charles Peterson

Q+A for Speaker

12:30 PM Lunch

1:45 PM Session 7: Cancer Diagnostics

1:45 PM “The Oral-Systemic Connection: How Saliva and Cancers Are Connected” Taichiro Nonaka, DDS, PhD
2:00 PM “Saliva Liquid Biopsy” David Wong, DMD, DMSc
2:15 PM “The Beta Defensin Index: A Novel Biomarker for Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma” Aaron Weinberg, DMD, PhD

Q+A for Speakers

2:45 PM Break sponsored by the SalivaDirect Inc Board of Directors

3:15 PM Session 8: Saliva As A Diagnostic Tool - Looking Beyond COVID-19

3:15 PM “Salivary Immune Diagnostics for Enteric, Respiratory and Emerging Infectious Diseases” Kathleen Kurowski, MPH
3:30 PM “No More Throat Swabs, Please! Let’s Use Saliva for the Accurate, Rapid Detection of Strep Throat” Julia Halterman, PhD
3:45 PM “Multiplexed Measurement of Neurochemicals in Biological Samples with Carbon-based Multielectrode Arrays” Alexander Zestos, PhD
4:00 PM “Enhancing Concussion Diagnosis: Leveraging Saliva-Based Detection Innovations” Carolyn Banister, PhD. SCT (ASCP) MBCM MLSCM

Q+A for Speakers

4:30 PM Poster Session and Networking Reception sponsored by Porex Life Sciences

5:15 PM “Science for Service” Award Presentation honoring Tim Stenzel

5:30 PM “Service through Science” Award Reception

7:00 PM End of day

Friday, June 7th

9:00 AM Breakfast and networking

10:00 AM SDI Annual Meeting

11:30 AM End of day