Bioorthogonal chemistry, the journey from basic science to clinical translation
Part of the Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series, the lecture is given by a researcher dedicated to advancing and improving the careers of women scientists. Since 1994 when this annual lecture began, every speaker has exemplified the intelligence, scientific excellence and drive that made Margaret Pittman a leader as the first female laboratory chief at NIH. Professor Carolyn Bertozzi's research interests span the disciplines of chemistry and biology with an emphasis on studies of cell surface sugars important to human health and disease. Her research group profiles changes in cell surface glycosylation associated with ca...
Source: Videocast - All Events - July 19, 2023 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video

You contain multitudes: Somatic mutation and genomic diversity in human brain
Christopher Walsh is Bullard Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology at Harvard Medical School, Chief of the Division of Genetics at Boston Children's Hospital, and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He completed his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Chicago. After a neurology residency and chief residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, he completed a research fellowship in genetics at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Walsh has studied patterns of neural stem cell division, cell fate choices, and cell migrations in the developing cerebral cortex, and has pioneered the analysis of human genetic d...
Source: Videocast - All Events - July 19, 2023 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video

Influenza Pathogenesis and Therapeutics in Vulnerable Populations
Established in 1950 in honor of former NIH Director Rolla E. Dyer, M.D., a noted authority on infectious diseases, this lectureship, now part of the Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series, features internationally renowned researchers who have contributed substantially to medical as well as biological knowledge of infectious diseases. The Dyer Lecture is the oldest continuous lecture series at the NIH. Stacey Schultz-Cherry, PhD, is a Full Member and Professor in the Department of Infectious Diseases at St Jude Children ’ s Research Hospital in Memphis, TN as well as Senior Associate Dean for the St Jude Graduate School of...
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The Great Escape: Phage Lysis and Its Control
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) established the DeWitt Stetten Jr. Lecture in 1982 on the occasion of the institute ’ s 20th anniversary in honor of its third director, DeWitt “ Hans ” Stetten, Jr., M.D., Ph.D. Stetten was an esteemed biomedical research and administrator who had a varied biomedical career at and beyond the NIH. He first came to NIH in 1954 as associate director of intramural research at what was then called the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases. Having made his imprint there, he left the NIH to serve as dean of the Rutgers University Medical School fro...
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WALS Lecture by Heran Darwin
Heran Darwin is a Professor of Microbiology at NYU School of Medicine, where she has been since 2004. Her research contributions include the characterization of a bacterial proteasome system in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. She obtained her Ph.D. from UCLA in the lab of Dr. Virginia Miller. Half-way through her PhD, Heran moved with Dr. Miller to Washington University in St. Louis and finished her degree there, and remained as a postdoctoral fellow with Virginia for 2 more years. Heran then trained as a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Dr. Carl Nathan at Weill Medical College of Cornell University in NYC. Heran is a recipie...
Source: Videocast - All Events - July 17, 2023 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video

WALS Lecture- William E. Paul Lecture by Diane Mathis
Dr. Mathis obtained a PhD from the University of Rochester, and performed postdoctoral studies at the Laboratoire de G é n é tique Mol é culaire des Eucaryotes in Strasbourg, France and at Stanford University Medical Center. She returned to Strasbourg at the end of 1983, establishing a laboratory at the LGME [later the Institut de Genetique et de Biologie Moleculare et Cellulaire (IGBMC)] in conjunction with Dr. Christophe Benoist. The lab moved to the Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston in 1999. Through 2008, Dr. Mathis was a Professor of Medicine at Brigham and Women ’ s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and Associate...
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NAS Mini-Symposium with Michael Lichten, Deborah Morrison, Andre Nussenzweig, John O'Shea, and Julie Segre
National Academy of Science Mini-SymposiumFor more information go tohttps://researchfestival.nih.gov/2023Air date: 9/21/2023 12:00:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - June 8, 2023 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video

Autoinflammatory Disease and the Human Condition
This is the annual WALS Mider Lecture. Former NHGRI Scientific Director, and NIH Distinguished Investigator in the Metabolic, Cardiovascular and Inflammatory Disease Genomics Branch that has been with NIH since 1985, Dr. Dan Kastner ’ s career at the NIH his research has focused on using genetic and genomic strategies to understand inherited disorders of inflammation, often stimulated by patients with relatively rare disorders seen at the NIH Clinical Center hospital. This work has provided detailed molecular explanations for these illnesses, has provided the conceptual basis for highly effective targeted therapies, and ...
Source: Videocast - All Events - June 1, 2023 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video

NIH Matilda White Riley Behavioral and Social Sciences Honors - [2023]
16th NIH Matilda White Riley Behavioral and Social Sciences Honors Monday, May 15, 2023, 1:30 - 5:00pm | Natcher Conference Center and Virtual Presenters: To be announced Matilda White Riley, Ph.D., (1911 – 2004) was a celebrated scientist and member of the National Academy of Sciences whose transformative work and leadership in the behavioral and social sciences at the NIH is honored annually by OBSSR. Each year, NIH honors the research trajectory and continuing influence of Dr. Matilda White Riley in the behavioral and social sciences across and beyond the NIH. Initiated as an annual distinguished scholar lecture, ...
Source: Videocast - All Events - March 9, 2023 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video

Clinical Center Grand Rounds: Co-Sponsored by CC Staff Clinician Council, Professional Development for Clinicians & Recognizing Clinical Excellence
Scott Wright, MD Anne Gaines& G. Thomas Miller Professor of Medicine Director, Division of General Internal Medicine Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center Director, Miller Coulson Academy of Clinical Excellence Johns Hopkins University School of MedicineFor more information go tohttps://clinicalcenter.nih.gov/about/news/grcurrent.htmlAir date: 4/26/2023 12:00:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
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Clinical Center Grand Rounds Co-Sponsored by CC Staff Clinician Council, Professional Development for Clinicians & Recognizing Clinical Excellence
Scott Wright, MD Anne Gaines& G. Thomas Miller Professor of Medicine Director, Division of General Internal Medicine Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center Director, Miller Coulson Academy of Clinical Excellence Johns Hopkins University School of MedicineFor more information go tohttps://clinicalcenter.nih.gov/about/news/grcurrent.htmlAir date: 4/26/2023 12:00:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - February 24, 2023 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video

Nobel Prizes and the Emerging Gene Concept
Join us for our next talk in the Office of NIH History lecture series. Erling Norrby, M.D., Ph.D., of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences will speak about the changing concept of the gene through the lens of Nobel Prizes awarded in the past century. Dr. Norrby is former chair at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, where he served as dean of the Faculty of Medicine and was involved in the selection process for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 20 years. After leaving the Institute, he became Permanent Secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. In this role, he had overriding responsibility for the ...
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Biomedical History Lecture with Dr. Erling Norrby
A global leader on immunology& vaccines, Dr. Norrby is the former Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. There Norrby was instrumental in the selection process for Nobel Prize recipients in the Physiology of Medicine; and later served as permanent secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and a board member of the Nobel Foundation. At present, Dr. Norrby is with the Center for History of Science at The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences; and serves as the Vice Chair of the Board of the J. Craig Venter Institute in La Jolla, California.For more information go tohttps://histo...
Source: Videocast - All Events - February 7, 2023 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video

CCR Grand Rounds - Personalized Cellular Therapy for Cancer
CCR Grand Rounds Antoni Ribas, M.D., Ph.D. is Professor of Medicine, Professor of Surgery, and Professor of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Director of the Tumor Immunology Program at the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center (JCCC), Director of the Parker Inst itute for Cancer Immunotherapy (PICI) Center at UCLA. Dr Ribas is a physician-scientist who conducts laboratory and clinical research in malignant melanoma, focusing on gene engineered T cells, PD-1 blockade and BRAF targeted therapies. His National Cancer Institute (NCI), State of California and fo undation-sup...
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CCR Grand Rounds
“ Personalized Celular Therapy for Cancer ” Antoni Ribas, M.D., Ph.D. PROFESSOR OF MEDICINE WITH TENURE PROFESSOR OF SURGERY PROFESSOR OF MOLECULAR AND MEDICAL PHARMACOLOGY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES (UCLA) Friday, February 3, 2023 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Lipsett Amphitheater (Masks required) Also available to view via NIH Videocast. Antoni Ribas, M.D., Ph.D. is Professor of Medicine, Professor of Surgery, and Professor of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Director of the Tumor Immunology Program at the Jonsson Com prehensive Cancer Center (JCCC), D...
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