Scripps CEO set for Discovery Lecture

BY: MELISSA MARINO

11/20/2009 - Richard Lerner, M.D., president and chief executive officer of The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif., will deliver the next Discovery Lecture on Dec. 3.

Lerner's lecture, “The Chemistry of a Disease,” will be at 4 p.m. in 208 Light Hall.

A member of the National Academy of Science

s, Lerner is best known for his work on converting antibodies into enzymes, an advance that permits the catalysis of chemical reactions considered impossible by classical chemistry. These “catalytic antibodies” have a wide range of applications as molecular tools for chemical synthesis and drug delivery, and as bactericidal agents.

Lerner's lecture, which is also the Ernest Goodpasture Lecture, is sponsored by the Department of Pathology and the Center for Matrix Biology.

For a complete schedule of the Discovery Lecture series and archived video of previous lectures, go to www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/discoveryseries.

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