Today’s Interview was the beginning of what we hope is a new vein of information we can mine!
We had the opportunity to Interview the Vice President (soon to be president) of The American Society of Matrix Biology.
William C. Parks Ph.D. is currently leading this association into the future of scientific research collaboration for the Community as a whole. We spent time during the interview covering what his research lab is working on. As the Director of the Center for Lung Biology at the University of Washington Seattle. Dr. Parks is well entrenched in the study of Matrix Metalloproteinase. Or MMPs as they are abbreviated. . Dr. Park explained that the Presence and use of these MMPs (which are enzymes) is a major part of the innate immunity for the epithelium of major organs.
We then quickly moved into the Societies Goals, Growth stage, Potential, and visions.
By bringing together all of the scientists who work in varying specialties of matrix biology, they are able to share knowledge, explore possibilities, and further their science as a whole.
The ASMB is currently gearing up for their conference December 7-10 in San Diego. Where they will have over two hundred presentations, and information of all the leading edge science within the umbrella of Matrix Biology. (This coincidently is very broad!!)
I highly urge you to listen to this interview and take a look at the society as they have the vision of what it will take to redirect the funding efforts and properly aid tin the scientific discovery process...
Here is a links for Dr. Parks’s lab….
http://depts.washington.edu/pulmcc/faculty/parks.htm
And here are the links for the American Society for matrix Biology.
http://www.asmb.net/
http://www.asmb.net/2008meeting/
http://www.asmb.net/2008meeting/Official%202008%20ASMB%20Program.pdf
