Previous Speakers
Vanderbilt University Medical Center has launched the Discovery Lecture Series featuring the world's most eminent scientists, who will speak on the highest-impact research and policy issues in science and medicine today.
Two Monthly Lectures
208 Light Hall, 4pm Central (unless otherwise indicated)
Reception Following
Two Monthly Lectures
208 Light Hall, 4pm Central (unless otherwise indicated)
Reception Following
Featured Discovery Lecture Speaker
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, M.D., M.B.A.
February 9, 2012
Lecture: "Reversing Childhood Obesity: Helping All Children Lead Healthier Lives"
Sponsor: Office of the Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs
- President and CEO of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- Member, Institute of Medicine
February 9, 2012
Lecture: "Reversing Childhood Obesity: Helping All Children Lead Healthier Lives"
Sponsor: Office of the Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs
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Upcoming Speakers
Vanderbilt Prize Winner - Titia de Lange, Ph.D.
- Leon Hess Professor and head of the Laboratory for Cell Biology and Genetics
- American Cancer Society Research Professor
- Director, Anderson Center for Cancer Research, Rockefeller University, New York
February 23, 2012
Lecture: "How telomeres solve the end-protection problem"
Sponsor: Office of the Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs
Trudi Schupbach, Ph.D.
- Professor of Molecular Biology Princeton University
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
- Member, National Academy of Sciences
March 1, 2012
Lecture: "Control of EGF Receptor Activity and Axis Establishment in Drosophila Oogenesis"
Sponsor: Program in Developmental Biology & the Epithelial Cell Biology Center
Eric Wieschaus, Ph.D.
- Squibb Professor, Department of Molecular Biology
- Princeton University
- Nobel Prize, Physiology 1995
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Member, National Academy of Sciences
March 8, 2012
Sponsor: Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB Distinguished Faculty Lecture) & the Epithelial Cell Biology Center
Gail Martin, Ph.D.
- Professor, Department of Anatomy
- University of California San Francisco
- Member, National Academy of Sciences
April 12, 2012
Sponsor: Pediatrics
Jim Wells, Ph.D.
- Chair, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
- University California San Francisco
- Member, National Academy of Sciences
April 26, 2012
Sponsor: Biochemistry
Jeff Wrana, Ph.D.
- Investigator, Department of Molecular Biology and Cancer
- Samuel Luenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital
- Professor, Medical Genetics and Microbiology, University of Toronto
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute International Research Scholar
May 3, 2012