The Baxter Distinguished Lecture
The Baxter Distinguished Lecture was created by Dr. Helen Blau to bring high profile speakers to talk to the scientific community at Stanford about their work. These speakers include numerous Nobel Prize winners.
Elaine Fuchs, PhD
March 2024
Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The University of Rochester
Stem Cells: Coping with Stress and Learning from Their Experiences
Hans Clevers, MD, PhD
January 2023
Principal Investigator at the Princess Máxima Center, Utrecht; Head of Pharma Research and Early Development (pRED) at Roche; Oncode Investigator and Professor, at the University of Utrecht
Organoids to model human diseases
Janet Rossant, PhD
December 2021
Sr. Scientist and Chief of Research Emeritus, Hospital for Sick Children
Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto
Stem cells, embryos and embryo models
Sally Temple, PhD
January 2021
Scientific Director, Principal Investigator, and Co-Founder Neural Stem Cell Institute
Professor, Biomedical Sciences, SUNY Albany
Retinal pigment epithelial stem cells - from discovery to translaiton
Robert Langer, PhD
January 2020
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
United States Medal of Science
Biomaterials and biotechnology: from drug delivery systems to tissue engineering
Haifan Lin, PhD
January 2019
Yale Stem Cell Center
Eugene Higgins Professor & Director Yale Stem Cell Institute (2019)
Uniting the genome: multifaceted functions of the piwi-piRNA pathway in the germline
Jennifer Doudna, PhD
February 2018
UC Berkeley
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (2018)
CRISPR Biology and biotechnology: what’s next for gene editing
David Baltimore, PhD
February 2017
Caltech
Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine (1975)
Understanding the regulatory roles of microRNAs
Eric Olson, PhD
April 2016
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
CRISPR/Cas9 genomic editing and regenerative medicine to correct muscle disease: the future is now
George Church, PhD
January 2015
Harvard Medical School
Radically altering genomes, organs and ecosystems
Gary Ruvkun, PhD
April 2014
Harvard Medical School
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, 2015
C. elegans surveillance of conserved cellular components to detect and defend pathogen attacks, real or imagined
Nicole Le Douarin, PhD
December 2013
Kyoto Prize, 1986
The neural crest, a source of stem cells, its role in development and evolution of vertebrates
Phillip Sharp, PhD
March 2013
Koch Institute
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1993
The synthesis and functions of microRNAs and other non-coding RNAs
Jonas Frisén, MD, PhD
2010
Karolinksa Institute
Neural stem cells and neurogenesis in the adult central nervous system
Elizabeth Blackburn, PhD
March 2009
President of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2009
The role of telomeres in cancer and aging
Thomas Cech, PhD
March 2008
Distinguished Professor of Chemistry & Biology, University of Colorado at Boulder
President, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, 1989
Telomerase: bipartisan effort by RNA and protein to extend chromosome ends
Eric Kandel, MD
May 2006
Columbia University
Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 2000
The long and short of long-term memory: molecular mechanisms for perpetuating learning specific growth
Sir John Gurdon, Kt, DPhil, FRS
2005
Cambridge University
Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, 2012
Nuclear reprogramming in oocytes as a possible route to cell replacement
Joseph L. Goldstein, MD
2005
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 1985
The SREBP pathway: cholesterol homeostasis achieved by regulated intramembrane proteolysis
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