Date | Location | Title | Speakers |
January 9 |
Building 50 / First Floor |
Primary Immunodeficiency: Mechanism and Management |
Luigi Notarangelo (NIAID) Jennifer Puck (UCSF) |
January 16 |
Building 50 / First Floor |
Emerging Infectious Diseases and Other Public Health Threats |
Anthony Fauci (Georgetown University) Atul Gawande (USAID) |
January 23 |
Building 50 / First Floor |
Progeria: A Genetic and Therapeutic Adventure |
Francis Collins (NHGRI) Leslie Gordon (Brown University/ Progeria Research Foundation) |
January 30 |
Building 50 / First Floor |
The Prospect of Precision Medicine for All of Us |
Joshua Denny (All of Us Research Program) Leslie Biesecker (NHGRI) |
February 6 |
Building 50 / First Floor |
Drug Resistance: Mechanisms and Progress in Infection and Cancer |
Michael Gottesman (NCI) John Dekker (NIAID) |
February 13 |
Building 10 / Lipsett |
Hepatitis D and E: New challenges and Progress |
Theo Heller (NIDDK) Marc Ghany (NIDDK) |
February 20 |
Building 50 / First Floor |
Sickle Cell Anemia: A Global Perspective |
Ambroise Wonkam (Johns Hopkins University) Courtney Fitzhugh (NHLBI) |
February 27 |
Building 50 / First Floor |
Global Warming and Human Adaptation |
Gabriel Vecchi (Princeton University) Michael Sawka (Georgia Institute of Technology) |
March 5 |
Building 50 / First Floor |
Deafness in the Modern Genomic Technologic Era |
Ronna Hertzano (NIDCD) Matthew Kelley (NIDCD) Shawn Burgess (NHGRI) |
March 12 |
Building 50 / First Floor |
Cognitive Loss, Dementia, and Neurodegenerative Disorders: Vascular and Genetic Factors |
Rebecca Gottesman (NINDS) Sonja Scholz (NINDS) |
March 19 |
Building 10 / Lipsett |
Parkinson's Disease: From Genetic Breakthroughs to Therapeutic Targets |
Ellen Sidransky (NHGRI) Andrew Singleton (NIA) |
March 26 |
Building 10 / Masur |
Behavioral Genetics: Man Meets Dog |
Elaine Ostrander (NHGRI) Philip Shaw (NHGRI) |
April 2 |
VideoCast only |
Appetite, Obesity and Beyond: The Role of the CNS and New Drugs |
Jeffrey Friedman (Rockefeller University) Lorenzo Leggio (NIDA & NIAAA) |
April 9 |
VideoCast only |
Mental Health: Mechanisms and Crisis |
Thomas Insel (Former NIMH Director) George Koob (NIAAA Director) |
April 16 |
VideoCast only |
Multiple Myeloma |
Kenneth Anderson (Dana Farber/Harvard) Ryan Young (NCI) |
April 23 |
Building 10 / Lipsett |
Fentanyl and other Drug Addictions: Progress and Challenges |
Nora Volkow (NIDA) |
April 30 |
Building 10 / Lipsett |
Sleep and Perchance to Dream: Mechanisms and Management |
Susan Harbison (NHLBI) Dante Picchioni (NINDS) |
May 7 |
Building 10 / Lipsett |
Artificial Intelligence in Scientific Publishing |
Holden Thorp (Science Family of Journals) Vardit Ravitsky (Hastings Center) |
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