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Eric Nestler, M.D., Ph.D.,
"Transcriptional Mechanisms of Drug Addiction"

Alastair J.J. Wood, MB, ChB,
"Drug Regulation: Time for a radical change"

Shiriki Kumanyika, PhD, MPH ,
"Research to Eliminate Ethnic Disparities in Obesity: Strategic Directions "

Kevin P. Campbell, Ph.D.,
"Muscle Cell Membrane Integrity and the Pathogenesis of Muscular Dystrophy "

Aaron Ciechanover, M.D., D.Sc.,
"The Ubiquitin Proteolytic System: From Basic Mechanisms through Human Diseases and onto Drug Targeting "

Tachi Yamada, M.D.,
"Perspectives on Global Health"

Gerald I. Shulman, M.D., Ph.D.,
"Cellular mechanisms of insulin resistance: Implications for obesity, lipodystrophy and type 2 diabetes "

Charles Rice, Ph.D.,
"Hepatitis C Virus: Twenty Years Later"

Pierre Chambon, M.D.,
"Nuclear Receptors: From Mice to Diseases"

Helen Hobbs, M.D.,
"Genetic Protection from Disorders of Dietary Excess"

Elizabeth G. Nabel, M.D.,
"Genomic Medicine: Cardiovascular Insights from a Premature Aging Syndrome "

Xiaodong Wang, Ph.D. ,
"Understanding Cell Death"

Patricia K. Donahoe, M.D.,
"Pinpointing the Genetic Causes of Birth Defects"

Joan Steitz,
"Regulating the Activity of MicroRNAs in Vertebrate Cells"

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)