Reinhard Fässler, M.D.
- Director of Department of Molecular Medicine Max Planck Institute, Martinsried, Germany
- Member, Austrian Academy of Science
- Member, German Academy of Science
Cell Adhesion: Functions and Failures
Nov 10, 2016
Sponsored by Department of Medicine
Mark T. Wallace, Ph.D.
Laura L. Dugan, M.D.
Sachin Patel, M.D., Ph.D.
Vanderbilt Cutting-edge Discovery Lecture
Translational Neuroscience Research at Vanderbilt: Mechanisms and Targets for Brain Disorders
Nov 3, 2016
Sponsored by Office of the President and CEO
John W. Kappler, Ph.D.
- Department of Biomedical Research National Jewish Health
- Investigator, HHMI
- Member, National Academy of Sciences
Breaking Through Immunological Tolerance
Oct 20, 2016
Sponsored by Vanderbilt Diabetes Center and Vanderbilt Center for Immunobiology (Irwin Eskind Lecture in Biomedical Science)
Elizabeth Engle, M.D.
- Professor of Neurology and Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School
- Associate Member, Broad Institute
- Investigator, HHMI
Cranial Nerve Development in Health and Disease
Oct 6, 2016
Sponsored by Vanderbilt Medical Scientist Training Program
Joanne Lynn, M.D., M.A.
- Director, Altarums Center for Elder Care and Advanced Illness, Altarum Institute
- Member, National Academy of Medicine
How to Build the Care System You Need when You are Very Old
Sept. 22, 2016
Sponsored by Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society
(Patricia Townsend Meador Lecture)
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Andre Churchwell, M.D.
Linda Sealy, Ph.D.
Vanderbilt Cutting-edge Discovery Lecture
Andre Churchwell, M.D.
- Levi Watkins Jr, M.D. Chair
- Senior Associate Dean for Diversity Affairs
- Professor of Medicine, Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Biomedical Engineering
- Member, National Academy of Sciences
Linda Sealy, Ph.D.
- Director, Initiative for Maximizing Student Diversity
- Associate Professor, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Cancer Biology, and Cell and Developmental Biology
Research and Education Advances
Sept. 8, 2016
Sponsored by Office of the President and CEO
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Craig B. Thompson, M.D.
- President and CEO, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
- Member, National Academy of Sciences
- Member, National Academy of Medicine
Linking Metabolism to Stem Cell Maintenance
May 5, 2016
Sponsored by Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center & Cancer Biology
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Eric Betzig, Ph.D.
- Group Leader, Janelia Research Campus
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Investigator, HHMI
- Member, National Academy of Sciences
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2014
Imaging Life at High Spatiotemporal Resolution
Apr. 28, 2016
Sponsored by Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB Distinguished Speaker) and Vanderbilt Biophotonics Center
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Huda Y. Zoghbi, M.D.
- 2015 Vanderbilt Prize Winner
- Professor of Pediatrics, Neurology, Neuroscience, and Molecular and Human Genetics
- Baylor College of Medicine
- Director, Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute
- Texas Children's Hospital
- Investigator, HHMI
- Member, Institute of Medicine
- Member, National Academy of Sciences
The Story of Rett Syndrome and the insight it provides into Neuropsychiatric Disorders
Apr. 21, 2016
Sponsored by Office of the Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs
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Philip S. Low, Ph.D.
- Director of the Purdue Center for Drug Discovery
- Ralph C. Corley Distinguished Professor
- Department of Chemistry
- Member, National Academy of Inventors
Ligand-Targeted Therapeutic and Imaging Agents for Multiple Human Diseases
Apr. 14, 2016
Sponsored by Vanderbilt Institute of Chemical Biology
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Robert J. Lefkowitz, M.D.
- James B. Duke Professor, Duke University Medical Center
- Investigator, HHMI
- Member, National Academy of Sciences
- Member, Institute of Medicine
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2012
Seven Transmembrane Receptors
Mar. 31, 2016
Sponsored by Molecular Physiology and Biophysics (Sutherland Lectureship)
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Joseph T. Coyle, M.D.
- Eben S. Draper Chair of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School
- Chief Scientific Officer, McLean Hospital
- Member, Institute of Medicine
N-Methyl-D- Aspartate Receptor Dysfunction in Schizophrenia: A Target for More Effective Treatments
Mar. 10, 2016
Sponsored by Pharmacology (Allan D. Bass Lecture in Pharmacology)
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Gilbert S. Omenn, M.D., Ph.D.
- Harold T. Shapiro Distinguished University Professor
- Director, Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics
- Professor of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics, Internal Medicine, Human Genetics and Public Health
- University of Michigan
- Member, Institute of Medicine
The Essential Role of Bioinformatics in Exploring the World of Proteins and Characterizing the Human Proteome
Feb. 25, 2016
Sponsored by Biomedical Informatics
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Emery Brown, M.D., Ph.D.
- Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
- MIT-Harvard Division of Health Sciences and Technology
- Member, Institute of Medicine
- Member, National Academy of Engineering
- Member, National Academy of Sciences
Deciphering the Dynamics of the Unconscious Brain Under General Anesthesia
Feb. 11, 2016
Sponsored by Department of Anesthesiology
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Joshua C. Denny, M.D., M.S.
- Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics
- Associate Professor of Medicine
- Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
A Journey to Precision Medicine
Feb. 4, 2016
Sponsored by Office of the Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs
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Roderick J.A. Little, Ph.D.
- Richard D. Remington Distinguished University
- Professor, Biostatistics Department
- Member, Institute of Medicine
Intention-to-Treat Analysis with Treatment Discontinuation and Missing Data in Clinical Trials
Jan. 28, 2016
Sponsored by Vanderbilt Center for Quantitative Sciences
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Peter Agre, M.D.
- Bloomberg Distinguished Professor and Director of Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute
- Member, Institute of Medicine
- Member, National Academy of Sciences
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2003
Opening Doors Worldwide through Medical Science
Jan. 21, 2016
Sponsored by Biochemistry (Hnilica Lectureship)
and Vanderbilt Institute of Chemical Biology
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Dora Angelaki, Ph.D.
- Chairman and Professor of Neuroscience
- Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
- Member, National Academy of Sciences
A Computational Perspective on Autism
Jan. 14, 2016
Sponsored by Vanderbilt Brain Institute