Elizabeth Blackburn, Ph.D.
- Morris Herzstein Endowed Professor in Biology & Physiology
- Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics University of California, San Francisco
Telomeres and Telomerase in Health and Disease
January 10, 2008
Ferid Murad, M.D., Ph.D.
- John S. Dunn, Sr. Distinguished Chair Regental Professor
- Professor, Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology
- Director Emeritus, Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX
Discovery of NO and cGMP Signaling and Role in Drug Discovery and Development, Grant R. Wilkinson Distinguished Lectureship in Clinical Pharmacology
February 14, 2008
Christine E. Seidman, M.D.
- Professor of Genetics and Medicine, Harvard Medical School
- Director of the Cardiovascular Genetics Service at Brigham and Women's Hospital
- Member, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Member
- National Academy of Sciences
Mutations to Mechanisms in Cardiovascular Disease
February 28, 2008
Allan Brandt, PhD
- Amalie Moses Kass Professor of the History of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
The Tobacco Pandemic: Ethics, Health, and History
March 13, 2008
Solomon Snyder, M.D.
- Professor of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University
Novel Molecular Signaling in Life and Death of Neurons
April 3, 2008
Cato T. Laurencin, M.D., Ph.D.
- University Professor, Lillian T. Pratt Distinguished Professor and Chairman of Orthopaedic Surgery, The University of Virginia
Musculoskeletal Regeneration: The Regenerative Engineering Approach
April 10, 2008
Kurt Wuthrich, Ph.D.
- Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
- Cecil H. and Ida M. Green Professor of Structural Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
- Professor of Biophysics, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
The NMR view of Proteins
April 16, 2008
Ron Evans, Ph.D.
- Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Professor, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Nuclear Receptors: Metabolic Engineering and the Dawn of Synthetic Physiology
April 24, 2008
David W. Russell, Ph.D.
- McDermott Distinguished Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
Cholesterol and Learning: Expect the Unexpected
May 22, 2008
Douglas A. Melton, Ph.D.
- Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences
- Howard Hughes Medical Investigator
- Harvard University
Making pancreatic β cells for diabetics
October 2, 2008
Neil R. Powe, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A.
- University Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine
- Director, Welch Center for Prevention
- Epidemiology and Clinical Research Deputy Director, Institute for Clinical and Translational Research
- Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Health and Health Care Disparities: Causes, Consequences and the Will to Conquer
October 16, 2008
Ann Graybiel, Ph.D.
- Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science Recipient
- Walter A. Rosenblith Professor of Neuroscience
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- McGovern Institute Investigator
Our Habitual Lives: How the Brain Makes and Breaks Habits
October 30, 2008
Thomas Jessell, Ph.D.
- Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University
- Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Assembly and Organization of Spinal Motor Circuits
November 6, 2008
Barbara A. Schaal, Ph.D.
- Spencer T. Olin Professor of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis
- Vice President of the National Academy of Sciences
Enhancing Nutrition in the Developing World: The Tropical Crop Cassava
November 20, 2008