Health Sciences Research Day Previous Lecturers:
2024
- James McClain, PhD, MPH
Deputy Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the NIH All of Us Research Program
2023
- Philip Payne, PhD, FACMI, FAMIA, FAIMBE, FIAHSI
Director, Institute for Informatics, Data Science and Biostatistics
Janet and Bernard Becker Professor
Associate Dean for Health Information and Data Science
Chief Data Scientist
Chief Health AI Officer
WashU Medicine
2020
- Joe DeRisi, PhD
HHMI Investigator
Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics
University of California San Francisco
2019
- Christopher Austin, MD
Director, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)
NIH
2018 - The Connected Brain
- Frances Jensen, MD
University of Pennsylvania - Ricardo Dolmetsch, PhD
Novartis Institute for BioMedical Research
Stanford University - Dr. Erwin Neher
1991 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry
2017 - Pediatrics
- Jeffery Molkentin, PhD
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
University of Cincinnati - Wendy Chung, MD, PhD
Columbia University
2016 - Molecular Machines in Human Disease
- Feng Zhang, PhD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - George Daley, MD, PhD
Harvard Medical School
2015 - Applying Chemical Biology to Understand and Treat Human Disease
- Bradford Gibson, PhD
Buck Institute for Research on Aging - Hugo Bellen, DVM, PhD
HHMI/Baylor College of Medicine - Brent Stockwell, PhD
HHMI ECS/Columbia University
2014 - Diabetes: Mechanisms and Treatment
- Eva L. Feldman, MD, PhD
University of Michigan - Jens C. Bruning, MD
Max Planck Institute for Neurological Research, Cologne - Morris J. Birnbaum, MD, PhD
University of Pennsylvania
2013 - Molecules and Mental Illness
- Kenneth Kendler, MD
Virginia Commonwealth University - Andrew Feinberg, MD, MPH
Johns Hopkins University - H. Sebastian Seung, PhD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2012 - The Excitable Brain: order & disorder in the nervous system
- Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD
Stanford University - Jeff Noebels, MD, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine - Gina Turrigiano, PhD
Brandeis University - David McCormick, PhD
Yale University - Mary (Missy) Cummings, PhD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2011 - Translational Genomics
- Rima Kaddurah-Daouk, PhD
Duke University Medical Center - Ruth Ley, PhD
Cornell University - Dianna Milewicz, MD, PhD
University of Texas Medical School-Houston - Robert Strausberg, PhD
Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research
2010 - Genetics
- Kaare Christensen, DMSc
University of Southern Denmark - Joel Hirschhorn, MD, PhD
Harvard University Medical School - Deborah Nickerson, PhD
University of Washington - David A. Schwartz, MD
National Jewish Health - Deepak Srivastava, MD
University of California, San Francisco - Richard Weinshilboum, MD
Mayo Clinic
2009 - Cardiovascular and Excitable Cell Biology
- David Clapham, MD, PhD
Harvard Medical School - Silvia G. Priori, MD, PhD
University of Pavia, Italy - Denis Nobel, PhD, FRS
Oxford University - Richard Tsien, DPhil
Stanford University Medical School
2008 - Innate Immunity
- Sergio Grinstein, PhD
The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute - Douglas Golenbock, MD
University of Massachusetts Medical School - Charles Serhan, PhD
Harvard Medical School - Richard Gallo, MD, PhD
University of California- San Diego
2007 - Growing the Biomedical Sciences in Iowa
- Funmi Olopade, MD, FACP
University of Chicago Medical Center - Gerald Schulman, MD, PhD
University of California- Los Angeles - Richard Hynes, PhD
Massachusetts Institutes of Technology
2006 - Of Mice and Men
- Tyler Jacks, PhD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Ken Philipson, PhD
University of California- Los Angeles - Andrew Marks, MD
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons - Eric Olson, PhD
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas - Richard P. Lifton, MD, PhD
Yale University
2005 - Building Bridges in Science
- Gregory J. Hannon, PhD
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory - David Ginsburg, MD
University of Michigan - Erika von Mutius, MD
Munich University Children's Hospital - Carole Ober, PhD
University of Chicago - Jules Hoffman, MD, PhD
Universite Louis Pasteur
2004 - Mapping the Road to Scientific Discovery
- Edward L. Kaplan, MD
University of Minnesota Medical School - Goran K. Hansson, MD, PhD
Karolinska Institute - Judah Folkman, MD
Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
2003 - Constructing the Future of Medicine
- Michael W. Schwartz, MD
University of Washington - Rodney A. Hayward, MD
VA Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MI - Diane Krause, MD, PhD
Yale University School of Medicine - Stephen A. Morse, MSPH, PhD
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
2002 - The Intersection of Science and Health: 25 Years of the MSTP Program
- Christine Seidman, MD
Harvard Medical School - Michael S. Brown, MD
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas - Elizabeth Barrett-Conner, MD
University of California- San Diego - Brian J. Druker, MD
Oregon Health and Science University - Leon E. Rosenberg, MD
Princeton University
2001 - Biomedical and Public Health Research in the Post Genomic Era
- M. Anne Spence, PhD
University of California- Irvine - David A. Greenberg, PhD
Mount Sinai Medical Center - Bennett Shapiro, MD
Merck Research Laboratories - Alison Goate, DPhil
Washington University School of Medicine - Lap-Chee Tsui, OC, PhD
The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute
2000 - Antimicrobials, Host Defense and Bacterial Resistance
- Jules A. Hoffman, PhD
Institut de Biologic Moleculaire et Cellulaire, Strasbourg, France - Julien E. Davies, PhD
University of British Columbia - Hiroshi Nikaido, MD
University of California- Berkeley - C. Kendall Stover, PhD
PathoGenesis, Inc.
1999 - Molecular Mechanisms of Viral Infection
- Joseph Sodroski, MD
Harvard Medical School - Mavis Agbandje-McKenna, PhD
University of Warwick - Michael Summers
University of Maryland Baltimore County - Gail Wertz
University of Alabama Birmingham
1998 - Molecular Interactions Between Microbes and the Human Host
- Norma W. Andrews, PhD
Yale University School of Medicine - David W. Dyer, PhD
Oklahoma University Health Sciences Center - Don Ganem, MD
University of California- San Francisco - Stephen J. O'Brien, PhD
National Cancer Institute - Guy R. Cornelis, PhD
International Institute of Cell Pathology, Universite Catholique de Louvain