The Office of Research Affairs

Dean's Lectures

Ellen Vitetta, M.D., Ph.D.

The Scheryle Simmons Patigian Distinguished Chair in Cancer Immunobiology

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

"Redesigning Poisons for Biomedicine and Biodefense"

October 20, 2009

Mitchell Lazar, M.D., Ph.D.

Director, Institute for Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism

University of Pennsylvania

"How Obesity Causes Diabetes"

November 18, 2009

Mortimer Mishkin, Ph.D.

Senior Investigator

National Institutes of Health

"Speech and Auditory Memory: How deep is Their Connection?"

February 10, 2010

Ernst Knobil Distinguished Lecture

Ron Evans, Ph.D.

Professor and March of Dimes Chair

The Salk Institute for Biological Sciences

"Nuclear Receptors and AMPK: Can Exercise Mimetics Substitute for Exercise?”

December 9, 2009

Cheves Smythe Distinguished Lecture

Cynthia Kenyon, Ph.D.

Director of the Hillblom Center for the Biology of Aging

University of California, San Francisco

"TBA"

March 10, 2010

Annual Medical School Research Retreat

Antonio Scarpa, M.D., Ph.D.

Director, Center for Scientific Review

National Institutes of Health

"Challenges and Opportunities Facing Peer Review: A Vision for Ensuring Its Strategic National Value."

October 6, 2009

8:00 a.m. - 5:45 p.m.

Robertson Auditorium

Institute of Molecular Medicine