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Vanderbilt Medical Center has launched the Discovery Lecture Series featuring the nation's most eminent scientists, who will speak on the highest-impact research and policy issues in science and medicine today.

Two Lectures Monthly | 208 Light Hall


Featured Discovery Lecture Speaker

Tyler Jacks
  • David H. Koch Professor of Biology
  • Ludwig Scholar
  • Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
  • Director, David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT


November 19, 2009
Lecture - "Lung Cancer Progression"
Sponsor: The Department of Cancer Biology
208 Light Hall / 4:00 p.m. (CST)

Join us in 208 Light Hall for the lecture.
Upcoming Speakers


Jon Seidman
  • Member, IOM and NAS
  • Professor, Harvard Medical School


This lecture has been cancelled



Richard Lerner
  • President, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California
December 3, 2009
Lecture - "Ernest W. Goodpasture Lecture, The Chemistry of Disease"
Sponsor: Department of Pathology and Center for Matrix Biology
208 Light Hall / 4:00 p.m. (CST)



Melanie Cobb
  • Member, NAS
  • Professor, UT Southwestern
January 14, 2010

208 Light Hall / 4:00 p.m. (CST)



Greg Barsh
  • Alumni Investigator, HHMI
  • Professor, Stanford Univ. School of Medicine
February 11, 2010

208 Light Hall / 4:00 p.m. (CST)



Susan Taylor, Ph.D.
  • Vanderbilt Prize Recipient
  • Investigator, HHMI
  • Member, IOM
  • Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS)
  • Member, National Academy of Sciences (NAS)
  • Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Professor, Department of Pharmacology, University of California, San Diego
February 18, 2010

4:00 p.m. / 208 Light Hall



Jean Pierre Changeux
  • Member, IOM and NAS
  • Professor, Institut Pasteur and College de France
February 25, 2010

208 Light Hall / 4:00 p.m. (CST)



Tom Cech
  • Nobel Prize Winner
  • Member, NAS and IOM
  • Investigator, HHMI
  • Past President, HHMI
  • Professor, Univ. Colorado at Boulder
March 4, 2010

208 Light Hall / 4:00 p.m. (CST)



Kathy Giacomini
  • Member, IOM
  • Professor of Biopharmaceutical
  • Sciences, Cellular and Molecular
  • Pharmaceutical Chemistry
  • UC San Francisco
March 11, 2010

208 Light Hall / 4:00 p.m. (CST)



Discovery Symposium
  • Rafi Ahmed
    • Emory University
    • Immunologic memory and vaccines
  • Diane Griffin
    • Johns Hopkins University
    • Pathogenesis of CNS infections
  • Steve Harrison
    • Harvard University
    • Structural biology of viruses
  • Peter Palese
    • Mount Sinai School of Medicine
    • Pandemic influenza
April 8, 2010

208 Light Hall / 4:00 p.m. (CDT)



Peter Schultz
  • Member, IOM and NAS
  • Professor, Scripps Research Institute
April 22, 2010

208 Light Hall / 4:00 p.m. (CDT)



Svante Pääbo
  • Foreign Member, NAS
  • Director, Max Planck Institute for
  • Evolutionary Anthropology
May 6, 2010

208 Light Hall / 4:00 p.m. (CDT)