Eric Nestler, M.D., Ph.D.
- Nash Family Professor of Neuroscience
- Director of the Mount Sinai Brain Institute
- Chairman of the Department of Neuroscience Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Transcriptional Mechanisms of Drug Addiction
January 15, 2009
Alastair J.J. Wood, MB, ChB
- Professor Emeritus, Vanderbilt School of Medicine
- Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, Wiell Cornell Medical College
- Managing Director of Symphony Capital LLC
Drug Regulation: Time for a radical change
January 29, 2009
Shiriki Kumanyika, PhD, MPH
- Professor of Epidemiology
- Associate Dean for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
- University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Research to Eliminate Ethnic Disparities in Obesity: Strategic Directions
February 12, 2009
Kevin P. Campbell, Ph.D.
- Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Director, Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Research Ctr.
- Chair, Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics University of Iowa
Muscle Cell Membrane Integrity and the Pathogenesis of Muscular Dystrophy
March 5, 2009
Aaron Ciechanover, M.D., D.Sc.
- Nobel prize in Chemistry 2004
- Vascular and cancer Biology Research Center
- The Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and Research Institute
- Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
The Ubiquitin Proteolytic System: From Basic Mechanisms through Human Diseases and onto Drug Targeting
March 19, 2009
Tachi Yamada, M.D.
- President, Global Health Program, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Perspectives on Global Health
March 26, 2009
Gerald I. Shulman, M.D., Ph.D.
- George R. Cowgill Professor of Physiological Chemistry
- Internal Medicine and Cellular & Molecular Physiology Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University
Cellular mechanisms of insulin resistance: Implications for obesity, lipodystrophy and type 2 diabetes
April 23, 2009
Charles Rice, Ph.D.
- Scientific & Executive Director, Center for the Study of Hepatitis C
- Head, Laboratory of Virology and Infectious Disease
- Maurice R. and Corinne P. Greenberg Professor
- The Rockefeller University
Hepatitis C Virus: Twenty Years Later
April 30, 2009
Pierre Chambon, M.D.
- Founder and Former Director, The Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (IGBMC) and The Institut Clinique de la Souris (ICS/MCI), Strasbourg, France
Nuclear Receptors: From Mice to Diseases
June 8, 2009
Helen Hobbs, M.D.
- Howard Hughes Investigator
- Director, McDermott Center
- Professor of Internal Medicine and Molecular Genetics
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Genetic Protection from Disorders of Dietary Excess
September 10, 2009
Elizabeth G. Nabel, M.D.
- Member, IOM
- Director, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
- National Institutes of Health
Genomic Medicine: Cardiovascular Insights from a Premature Aging Syndrome
October 22, 2009
Xiaodong Wang, Ph.D.
- George L. MacGregor Distinguished Chair in Biomedical Science UT Southwestern Medical Center , UT Southwestern
- Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Understanding Cell Death
October 29, 2009
Patricia K. Donahoe, M.D.
- Marshall K. Bartlett Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
- Director, Pediatric Surgical Research Laboratories, Massachusetts General Hospital
Pinpointing the Genetic Causes of Birth Defects
November 5, 2009
Joan Steitz
- Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry Yale School of Medicine
Regulating the Activity of MicroRNAs in Vertebrate Cells
November 12, 2009
Tyler Jacks
- David H. Koch Professor of Biology
- Ludwig Scholar
- Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Director, David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT
Lung Cancer Progression
November 19, 2009
Richard Lerner
- President, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California
Ernest W. Goodpasture Lecture, The Chemistry of Disease
December 3, 2009