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Speaker Profiles for 2010

  1. January 12: Tuberculosis: the great white plague           
    Steven Holland (CC)
    Clifton Barry (NIAID)

  2. January 19: Hepatitis C: a global time bomb           
    Harvey alter (CC)
    Patrizia Farci (NAID)

  3. January 26: HIV: getting better and worse           
    John Coffin (NCI)
    Henry Masur (CC)

  4. February 2 : Swine and other Flues: an epidemic/pandemic?           
    Jeffrey Taubenberger (NIAID)
    Gary Nabel (NIAID)

  5. February 9 : Diarrheal diseases: global killers at all ages           
    Roger Glass (FC)
    John Robbins (NICHD)

  6. February 16: Horror Autoinflammaticus: Expanding spectrum of inherited disorders of inflammation           
    Daniel Kastner (NIAMS)
    Ivona Aksentijevich (NIAMS)

  7. February 23: Schizophrenia in the genomic age           
    Daniel Weinberger (NIMH)
    Joseph Apud (NIMH)

  8. March 2 : Drug addiction: marihuana and stronger stuff           
    Nora Volkow (NIDA)
    George Kunos (NIAAA)

  9. March 9 : Friederich’s Ataxia: n iron link           
    Kenneh Fischbeck (NINDS)
    Tracey Rouault (NICHD)

  10. March 16: Natural products: Keys to treating cancer and infection           
    Carole Bewley (NIDDK)
    David Newman (NCI)

  11. March 23: Inflammatory bowel disease: Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis           
    Warren Strober (NIDDK)
    Michael Yao (NIDDK)

  12. March 30: Holiday (Passover) 

  13. April 6 : Prostate cancer: mechanisms, ? epidemic, ? treatment           
    Kathleen Kelly (NCI)
    William Dahut (NCI)

  14. April 13: Breast cancer: genetic and other mechanisms           
    Lawrence Brody (NHGRI)
    Kathleen Calzone (NCI)

  15. April 20: Diabetes: autoimmunity and therapeutic challenges           
    Abner Louis Notkins (NIDCR)
    Jean-Marc Guettier (NIDDK)

  16. April 27: Stem cells: where do we stand?           
    Ronald McKay (NINDS)
    Cynthia Dunbar (NHLBI)

  17. May 4 : Autism: what do we know?           
    Tom Insel (NIMH)

  18. May 11: FINALE: What does the future hold for PhDs?           
    Michael Gottesman (OD)
    Jonathan Yewdell (NIAID)
    William Galey (HHMI)
    Win Arias (NICHD)

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