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MIT CLUB OF SOUTH TEXAS
November Newsletter 2003
(Revision 3, 11-19-03: Dining Club RSVP Date Extended to Nov 21st)
(Revision 2, 11-03-03: 2003 Holiday Party
Announced)
(Revision 1, 10-29-03:
Vaccine Development Abstract Posted for MIT At Home Seminar)
(Revision 0, 10-28-03)
Club of South Texas
Seminar: MIT At Home-1: Recent Medical Advances
November Dining Club
2003 Club of South Texas Holiday Party
2003 – 2004
Board of Directors Announced !
Upcoming Events
If you need to contact us about a specific event,
please see the contact information for that event.
Club of South Texas Seminar
“MIT At Home-1: Recent
Medical Advances”
Tuesday, November 18, 2003
RSVP by Nov 13
Cocktails-Social Hour 5:30pm
Talks 6:30pm
Dinner 7:30pm
University of Houston-Hilton
4800 Calhoun Street
(713) 741-2447
Click here for a map
Announcing our first “MIT at Home” Seminar featuring local MIT alums who are on
the cutting edge of technology. “MIT at Home” is patterned after MIT’s
successful “MIT On The Road” Program. We recently sent out an email to local
alumni asking if anyone was interested in talking about their work and we
received a very good response. Our inaugural program will consist of three
talks in the Medical field:
"Adding the 4th Dimension to
Radiation Therapy."
George Starkschall '67 and Craig Stevens '81
The standard approach to radiation treatment for cancer involves planning
the treatment based on a patient model derived from a single CT scan acquired
shortly before the initial. The development of high-speed CT scanners as well
as techniques for monitoring patient motion enable us to account for patient
motion explicitly in radiation therapy. We describe some of the technologies
that make it possible to determine the magnitude of patient motion during
radiation treatment and incorporate it into planning and delivery of radiation
treatments.
“Drug Discovery for
HIV/AIDS.”
Bill O'Brien ‘77
Therapy of HIV/AIDS over the last 20 years has been a wild rollercoaster
ride. Long-term suppression of HIV growth is the secret to controlling this
disease, and to accomplish this, new treatments and creative approaches are
needed. While the first 16 anti-HIV drugs attacked one of two virus replication
steps that occurs after the virus is inside the cell, the first drug to inhibit
HIV entry was approved earlier this year, opening a new era of anti-HIV
treatment. Our approach is to generate recombinant proteins that present the
relevant regions of the large HIV envelope in a way that allow us to screen for
compounds that bind to HIV envelope, and which may also inhibit HIV entry.
“Vaccine Development”
Catherine Schein SM ‘76
Abstract
Posted Oct 29, 2003: Up until the
middle of the 20th century, children's lives were often cut short by diseases
such as polio, whooping cough, diphtheria, smallpox, tuberculosis and tetanus.
The incidence of these and other diseases has been greatly reduced thanks to the
most important medical advance in human history, mass vaccination. Renewed
threats from hepatitis A and new ones from SARS and West Nile virus have shown
that we cannot ignore diseases that rampage in some of our trading partners.
This talk will briefly present, using Dengue Fever as an example, how new
research tools can aid in developing vaccines against viruses.
Alumni who are interested in
making presentations at future seminars should contact
Al Cisar
November
International Dining Club
Saturday, November 22, 2003
7:00pm
RSVP Extended to Nov 21st
Jamaica West Restaurant
1722 S. Dairy Ashford
Houston, TX 77077
(281) 597-1133
Click here
for a map
“Come and have a taste of the island” at our November International Dining Club
event. On Saturday, November 22, 2003, we will dine at the Jamaica West
Restaurant. The menu will include jerk chicken and curry goat. They claim
'Come and enjoy the mouth watering and delightful aroma of the best and most
authentic Caribbean dishes in the west.' I think they mean west Houston. The
price is $20 per person and includes tax, tip, and soft drink (wine and beer is
available at extra cost).
Please RSVP to Anwer Hussain at home on
281.752.9123, or via e-mail . Also, at some dinners in the recent past,
we were charged for no-shows, so if you can’t make it, PLEASE CALL ME! I hope
to see you there!
RSVP for this event via SmarTrans(sm)
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Anwer Hussain and David Johnston
2003
Holiday Party
Sunday, December 14, 2003
4:00pm – 6:00pm
RSVP by Dec 10
Cash Bar
Appetizers provided free to 2003 Dues-Paid Member and their Guests
$7 per person for non-members, payable online via
SmarTrans(sm)
Tio Pepe
5213 Cedar St
Bellaire, TX 77401
713-667-4409
Click here for a map
We are pleased to announce the
2003 Club of South Texas Holiday Party at Tio Pepe. The taste of Spain is at
Tio Pepe offering a variety of appetizers or "tapas" and specialties like
zarzuela de mariscos (seafood casserole) and paella. Come join the MIT club for
appetizers and sangria to celebrate the holidays. Please RSVP by December 10 to
Anwer Hussain at home
on 281.752.9123,
or via e-mail Or
RSVP online via
SmarTrans(sm)
2003 – 2004 BOARD OF
DIRECTORS ANNOUNCED !
The MIT Club of South Texas is
pleased to announce the 2003-2004 Board of Directors:
President -
Raul Valdez
President-Elect - Anwer Hussain
Past-President - Steve Murdoch
VP-Communications/Webmaster -
Stacey Nakamura
VP-Membership - Ramon San Pedro
VP-Programs - Dave Johnston
VP Young Alumni Relations -
Yezmin Acle,
Alberto Cividanes
Secretary/Historian - Arno Bommer
Treasurer - Steve Murdoch
Enterprise Forum Liaison - Craig Jarchow
Education Council Chair - Ed Rinehart
Interclub Liaison - Mark Suchon
Directors - Marilyn Taggi Cisar, Al Cisar, , , Sharon Israel, Herman
Vargas.
MIT Parents Association Liaison - Alicia Marra
Interested in becoming involved
with the MIT Club? Contact Raul Valdez at H: (713) 869-6336
W: (713) 245-7645) or by email
stexasclubpres@alum.mit.edu
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