2023-2024
| DATE | SPEAKER | TALK TITLE |
| Dec 13, 2023 | David Glass, MD | Age-related molecular mechanisms leading to age-related disease |
| Jan 31, 2024 | Li-Huei Tsai, PhD | Using multi-omic dissection of human brain tissue and IPSC derived brain cell models to understand the pathophysiology of Alzheimer’s disease |
| Mar 6, 2024 | Ben Ebert, MD, PhD | Targeted protein degradation and novel therapeutics |
2022-2023
| DATE | SPEAKER | TALK TITLE |
| Oct 19, 2022 | Tim Mitchison | How does the microtubule drug colchicine work as a medicine? |
| Feb 1, 2023 | Len Zon | Melanoma Initiation and the Cancer Niche |
| Mar 8, 2023 | David Matthew Altshuler | Humanizing Drug Discovery |
| Apr 19, 2023 | Bill Kaelin | Von Hippel-Lindau Disease: Insights into Oxygen Sensing, Protein Degradation, and Cancer |
| May 31, 2023 | Anna Greka | Dissecting cargo receptor-mediated membrane protein trafficking in health and disease |
2021-2022
| DATE | SPEAKER | TALK TITLE |
| Oct 18, 2021 | Chenghua Gu, PhD | The Neuro-vascular interactions in the CNS |
| Dec 01, 2021 | Myles Brown, MD | Essential Cancer Genes and Cistromes |
| Jan 26, 2022 | Sekar Kathiresan, MD | From reading the genome for risk to rewriting it for cardiovascular health |
| Mar 23, 2022 | Joan Brugge, PhD | Evolution of Concepts about Oncogenes and Mechanisms of Tumorigenesis |
| May 4, 2022 | Rosalind Segal, MD, PhD | Cancer, chemotherapy and nerves |
| Jun 27, 2022 | Harald Stenmark, PhD | Membrane dynamics and cancer |
| Jul 7, 2022 | Einat Zalckvar, PhD | Peroxisomes - from systematic screens to human diseases |
| Jul 19, 2022 | Daniel Gerlich | Chromosome dynamics during the cell cycle |
| Jul 22, 2022 | Brenda Schulman | Unfolding mysteries of cullin-RING E3 ubiquitin ligases |
| Jul 29, 2022 | David Komander | The activation mechanisms of PINK1 and Parking during mitophagy |
2020-2021
| DATE | SPEAKER | TALK TITLE |
| Oct 14, 2020 | Michael Gottesman, MD | The Complexity and Relevance of Multidrug Resistance in Cancer |
| Dec 2, 2020 | Don W Cleveland, PhD | “Designer DNA drug” therapies for neurodegenerative disease: What’s next? |
| Feb 21, 2020 | Anthony Letai, MD, PhD | Poking mitochondria to choose the right cancer drugs |
| Mar 24, 2021 | Stephen J Elledge, PhD | Spying on the immune system |
| May 5, 2021 | Barbara B Kahn, MD | Mechanisms by which adipose tissue regulates metabolic health and disease |
2019-2020
| DATE | SPEAKER | TALK TITLE |
| Nov 6, 2019 | Patricia A D'Amore, PhD, MBA | VEGF, Angiogenesis and Macular Degeneration |
| Dec 11, 2019 | David E. Fisher, MD, PhD | Lessons for melanoma therapeutics based on its unique pathogenesis |
| Feb 12, 2020 | Denisa Wagner, PhD | Inflammation and thrombosis, if it does not save you, it will kill you |
| Apr 1, 2020 | Stephen Liberles, PhD | Regulation of body functions by the vagus nerve |
2018-2019
| DATE | SPEAKER | TALK TITLE |
| Dec 5, 2018 | Dennis J Selkoe, MD | Cell Biology of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Diseases Reveals New Therapeutic Targets |
| Jan 16, 2019 | David Sinclair, PhD | Advances in reprogramming to turn back the aging clock |
| Mar 13, 2019 | Morris Birnbaum, MD, PhD | Pathophysiology and Therapeutic Strategies for Metabolic Disease |
| May 8, 2019 | Stuart Orkin, MD | Reactivating fetal hemoglobin to treat hemoglobin disorders: genetic and non-genetic approaches |
| May 29, 2019 | Richard Ransohoff, MD | Neuroinflammation: What is it, how does it contribute to neurological disease? |
2017-2018
| DATE | SPEAKER | TALK TITLE |
| Nov 2, 2017 | George Q Daley, PhD | A twenty year quest to derive Hematopoietic Stem Cells in vitro |
| Jan 17, 2018 | Benjamin Ebert, MD, PhD | Therapeutic targeting of ubiquitin ligase activity. |
| Mar 7, 2018 | Leslie Leinwand, PhD | Myosin myopathies: pathogenesis and potential therapies |
| Apr 18, 2018 | Lee Rubin, PhD | Looking at Neurological Disorders from Different Perspectives |
| May 30, 2018 | Frank Slack, PhD | Translating ncRNA discoveries to personalized RNA medicine for cancer |
2016-2017
| DATE | SPEAKER | TALK TITLE |
| Nov 16, 2016 | Gary Borisy, PhD | Mapping the Microbiome at the Micron Scale |
| Jan 18, 2017 | Junying Yuan, PhD | Necroptosis: from basic cell biology to human clinical studies |
| Mar 8, 2017 | Leonard Zon, MD | Pathways regulating hematopoietic stem cell self-renewal and migration |
| Apr 12, 2017 | Vamsi Mootha, MD | Mitochondrial parts, pathways, and pathogenesis |
| May 3, 2017 | Peter Libby, MD | Inflammation in Atherosclerosis - a Translational Journey |
2015-2016
| DATE | SPEAKER | TALK TITLE |
| Jan 20, 2016 | Richard Gregory, PhD | Defective RNA metabolism in childhood developmental syndromes |
| Feb 17, 2016 | Monty Krieger, PhD | Heart Attacks and Strokes: The Cholesterol Connection and Lipoprotein Receptors |
| Mar 16, 2016 | Isaac Chiu, PhD | Neuro-immune interactions in pain and host defense |
| Apr 27, 2016 | Arlene Sharp, MD, PhD | Cancer immunotherapy: The PD-1 pathway from discover to translation |
| Jun 1, 2016 | Shalender Bhasin, MD | Muscle in a Bottle: The Pharmaceutical Applications of Androgen Biology |
2014-2015
| DATE | SPEAKER | TALK TITLE |
| Dec 17, 2014 | Thomas Schwarz, PhD | |
| Mar 25, 2015 | Richard T. Lee, MD | |
| Apr 22, 2015 | Ulrich von Andrian, MD, PhD | Career decisions: How T cells remember pathogens |
| May 20, 2015 | Kim Lewis, PhD | Finding antibiotics to cure chronic infections |
2013-2014
| DATE | SPEAKER | TALK TITLE |
| Jan 16, 2013 | Charles Serhan, PhD | Resolving Inflammation: Elucidation of the Mediators and their Therapeutic Potential |
| Mar 20, 2013 | David Cohen, MD, PhD | START Domain-Mediated Metabolic Regulation Reveals New Therapeutic Targets for Diabetes and Obesity |
| Mar 27, 2013 | Benjamin Podbilewicz, PhD | Membrane Proteins Mediating Cell-Cell Fusion? |
| May 15, 2013 | Joseph Loscalzo, MD, PhD | Redox Dysregulation in Vascular Pathobiology |
| Jun 19, 2013 | Louis Kunkel, PhD | Muscular Dystrophy: From Gene Discovery to Therapy |
| Nov 20, 2013 | Brad Lowell, MD, PhD | The Neural Wiring Diagram for Hunger: Using Cre/Lox Tools to Discover its Basis |
| Feb 19, 2014 | David Scadden, MD | Stem cell niche in homeostasis and cancer |
| Mar 19, 2014 | David Glass, PhD | Molecular causes of skeletal muscle loss and function, and their treatment |
| Apr 16, 2014 | Phil Kantoff, MD | Prostate Cancer, a Disease of Paradoxes |
| Jun 18, 2014 | Connie Cepko, PhD | Strategies to prolong vision in inherited forms of blindness |