Registration is now open at the CBSA website for the fifth annual GoldLab Symposium, taking place on the University of Colorado Boulder campus, Friday and Saturday, May 16 - 17, 2014. This year’s Symposium, entitled “Embracing the Reptile Within: Head, Heart and Healthcare” brings together 18 renowned scientists and healthcare experts to discuss progress and issues in personalized medicine.

1. Registration Now Open At CBSA Website: GoldLab 5th Annual Symposium 2014,
“Embracing the Reptile Within: Head, Heart and Healthcare”
Registration is now open at the CBSA website for the fifth annual GoldLab Symposium, taking place on the
University of Colorado Boulder campus, Friday and Saturday, May 16 ‐ 17, 2014. This year’s Symposium,
entitled “Embracing the Reptile Within: Head, Heart and Healthcare” brings together 18 renowned scientists
and healthcare experts to discuss progress and issues in personalized medicine.
Boulder, CO, April 9, 2014 – The fifth annual GoldLab Symposium will take place on the University of Colorado
Boulder campus on Friday and Saturday, May 16 ‐ 17, 2014. This year’s Symposium, entitled “Embracing the
Reptile Within: Head, Heart and Healthcare,” brings together 18 renowned scientists and healthcare experts
to discuss progress and issues in personalized medicine. The announcement is made by Colorado Bioscience
Association President & CEO April Giles, who says, “Registration can be accomplished online at the Colorado
Bioscience Association website: http://www.cobioscience.com/events‐calendar/goldlab‐symposium‐2014.”
“This year our Symposium will have several talks on how the brain works and about the limitations of some of
our brain capacity. Indeed, we are less rational than perhaps we might hope,” said Larry Gold, the
Symposium’s founder. “The limitations of our neural capacities stand in the way of healthcare improvement,”
he added. “The number of great things done in the world is smaller than it ought to be. I blame our ‘reptilian
brains’ and this year we will confront our deficiencies without fear,” Gold concluded.
Once again, the Symposium will focus on emerging knowledge in science and medicine, endeavoring as always
to make the hard science completely understandable to the audience. Discussions of the intellectual,
scientific, economic, and social aspects of healthcare will be stimulated by agent provocateurs who will
challenge and upset participants with interludes of deep thought about how we learn and act. As well, the
Symposium will feature philosophy and humor.
The Gold Lab Symposia were initiated in 2010 to bring together a community of world‐class scientists, policy
experts, and thinkers to foster deep discussions about biological innovations and the improvement of health
care, with a goal of reaching actionable conclusions. Each year, this community identifies the biological
technologies that are being integrated into the mainstream to transform key aspects of healthcare.
Speakers scheduled for the 2014 event include: Alan Attie (University of Wisconsin), Tom Cathcart (Freelance
Writer), Scott Danielson (SweetViva, Inc.), Bob Duke (University of Texas), Caldwell Esselstyn Jr. (Cleveland
Clinic Wellness Institute), Peter Ganz (UCSF School of Medicine), Joy Hirsch (Yale University), Ted Kaptchuk
(Harvard Medical School), David Krakauer (University of Wisconsin), Richard Levin (Yale University), Charles
Middleton (Roosevelt University), James Rothman (Yale University), Lucy Shapiro (Stanford University), Ken
Sharpe (Swarthmore College), Neil Siegel (Northrop Grumman), Ajit Singh (Artiman), Lisa Stubbs (University of
Illinois) and Steve Williams (SomaLogic).
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The Symposium will be held in the Muenzinger Auditorium on the University of Colorado Boulder campus
from 8:30 AM ‐ 6 PM on Friday, May 16th
, and 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM on Saturday, May 17th
. Admission is free but
seating is limited. Registration can be accomplished online at the Colorado Biosciences Association website:
http://www.cobioscience.com/events‐calendar/goldlab‐symposium‐2014. Additional information about the
Gold Lab Symposia can be found at www.goldlabcolorado.com.
Contacts:
Roger A. Walz, Professional Research Asst, CU lab ‐ MCDB/B428 in Porter Biosciences Building
University of Colorado at Boulder ‐ Boulder, CO 80309‐0347 ‐ (303) 735‐6718 roger.walz@colorado.edu
Corissa J. S. Gold, Executive Assistant to the CEO SomaLogic, Inc., 2945 Wilderness Place, Boulder, CO 80301,
(303) 625‐2098 cgold@somalogic.com
Mae Desaire, Director of Marketing, Colorado BioScience Association ‐ http://www.cobioscience.com –
720‐382‐5918, mdesaire@cobioscience.com
Maggie Chamberlin Holben, APR, Absolutely Public Relations ‐ http://www.absolutelypr.com ‐ 303‐984‐9801,
maggie@absolutelypr.com