Past Events
2009 Katherine D. McCormick Distinguished Lecture
Carol Greider, PhD
Daniel Nathans Professor, Director of Melecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University
Professor of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University
Lecture
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
4:00-5:00pm
Braun Auditorium in the Chemistry Building
Dr. Greider's work focuses on telomeres and telomere shortening in disease. In 1984 along with Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn, she discovered telomerase, the enzyme that maintains telomeres. Dr. Greider worked at Cold Spring Harbor laboratory for 10 years before moving in 1997 to The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. In 2004, she was appointed as the Daniel Nathans Professor and Director of the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics. Dr. Greider has won a number of awards for the work on telomeres and telomerase. In 2003, Dr. Greider was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2006, she was the co-recipient of the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research. Dr. Greider currently directs a group of ten researchers who are focused on understanding telomeres and telomerase and their role in chromosome stability, stem cell failure and cancer.
2008 Katherine D. McCormick Distinguished Lecture
Elizabeth G. Nabel, MD
Director, NHLBI, NIH
"Genomic Medicine and Progeria: Cardiovascular insights gained from premature aging."
Medicine Grand Rounds
January 30, 2008
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Guest Speaker
Francis Collins, MD, PhD
Director, NHGRI, NIH
"Genomic Medicine and Society"
February 5, 2008
Clark Center Auditorium
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