Previous Speakers
2008 Speakers
Elizabeth Blackburn, Ph.D.,
"Telomeres and Telomerase in Health and Disease"
Ferid Murad, M.D., Ph.D.,
"Discovery of NO and cGMP Signaling and Role in Drug Discovery and Development, Grant R. Wilkinson Distinguished Lectureship in Clinical Pharmacology"
Christine E. Seidman, M.D.,
"Mutations to Mechanisms in Cardiovascular Disease"
Allan Brandt, PhD,
"The Tobacco Pandemic: Ethics, Health, and History"
Solomon Snyder, M.D.,
"Novel Molecular Signaling in Life and Death of Neurons"
Cato T. Laurencin, M.D., Ph.D.,
"Musculoskeletal Regeneration: The Regenerative Engineering Approach"
Kurt Wuthrich, Ph.D.,
"The NMR view of Proteins"
Ron Evans, Ph.D.,
"Nuclear Receptors: Metabolic Engineering and the Dawn of Synthetic Physiology"
David W. Russell, Ph.D.,
"Cholesterol and Learning: Expect the Unexpected"
Douglas A. Melton, Ph.D.,
"Making pancreatic β cells for diabetics"
Neil R. Powe, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A.,
"Health and Health Care Disparities: Causes, Consequences and the Will to Conquer "
Ann Graybiel, Ph.D.,
"Our Habitual Lives: How the Brain Makes and Breaks Habits"
Thomas Jessell, Ph.D.,
"Assembly and Organization of Spinal Motor Circuits"
Barbara A. Schaal, Ph.D.,
"Enhancing Nutrition in the Developing World: The Tropical Crop Cassava"
"Telomeres and Telomerase in Health and Disease"
Ferid Murad, M.D., Ph.D.,
"Discovery of NO and cGMP Signaling and Role in Drug Discovery and Development, Grant R. Wilkinson Distinguished Lectureship in Clinical Pharmacology"
Christine E. Seidman, M.D.,
"Mutations to Mechanisms in Cardiovascular Disease"
Allan Brandt, PhD,
"The Tobacco Pandemic: Ethics, Health, and History"
Solomon Snyder, M.D.,
"Novel Molecular Signaling in Life and Death of Neurons"
Cato T. Laurencin, M.D., Ph.D.,
"Musculoskeletal Regeneration: The Regenerative Engineering Approach"
Kurt Wuthrich, Ph.D.,
"The NMR view of Proteins"
Ron Evans, Ph.D.,
"Nuclear Receptors: Metabolic Engineering and the Dawn of Synthetic Physiology"
David W. Russell, Ph.D.,
"Cholesterol and Learning: Expect the Unexpected"
Douglas A. Melton, Ph.D.,
"Making pancreatic β cells for diabetics"
Neil R. Powe, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A.,
"Health and Health Care Disparities: Causes, Consequences and the Will to Conquer "
Ann Graybiel, Ph.D.,
"Our Habitual Lives: How the Brain Makes and Breaks Habits"
Thomas Jessell, Ph.D.,
"Assembly and Organization of Spinal Motor Circuits"
Barbara A. Schaal, Ph.D.,
"Enhancing Nutrition in the Developing World: The Tropical Crop Cassava"
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David W. Russell, Ph.D.
McDermott Distinguished Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX |
Cholesterol and Learning: Expect the Unexpected

