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Demystifying Medicine

The Demystifying Medicine Series, jointly sponsored by FAES and NIH, includes presentations on pathology, diagnosis, and therapy in the context of major disease problems and current research. Primarily directed toward PhD students, clinicians and program managers, this series is designed to help bridge the gap between advances in biology and their application to major human diseases. Each session includes clinical and basic science components presented by NIH staff and invitees. All students, trainees, fellows, and staff are welcome to participate.

All Demystifying Medicine lectures dating back to 2003 are archived at https://videocast.nih.gov/PastEvents?c=45.


2026 Schedule

Location: online each week via http://videocast.nih.gov
Dates: Tuesdays from January 6 through May 19
Time: 3:00 – 5:00 p.m. ET
Coordinator: Dr. Win Arias
CME Credit Information

 

Date Location Title Speakers
January
6
NIH VideoCast
Pandemics on the Horizon: Are We Ready for the Next Global Threat?
Jeffery Taubenberger, M.D., Ph.D. (NIH NIAID)
Arturo Casadevall, M.D., Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins University)
January
13
NIH VideoCast When Immunity Fights Back: Harnessing Rejection to Defeat Cancer
Grégoire Altan-Bonnet, Ph.D. (NIH NCI)
James Yang, M.D. (NIH NCI)
January
20
NIH VideoCast
The Epidemic That Won't Quit: Unraveling the HIV Crisis
John Coffin, Ph.D. (Tufts School of Medicine)
Carlos Del Rio, M.D. (Emory School of Medicine)
January
27
NIH VideoCast
Finding the Invisible: Frontiers in Cancer Detection
Stephen Chanock, M.D. (NIH NCI)
Pardis Sabeti, M.D., Ph.D. (Broad Institute)
February
3
NIH VideoCast
The Sexual Biology of Chronic Disease
Janine Clayton, M.D. (NIH ORWH)
David Page, M.D. (MIT, Whitehead)
February
10
NIH VideoCast Rethinking Kidney Cancer: A Metabolic Perspective
Michael Caplan, M.D., Ph.D. (Yale)
Marston Linehan, M.D. (NIH NCI)
February
17
NIH VideoCast
Liver Double Lives: Zonal Secrets of Hepatocyte Function and Disease
Shalev Itzkovitz, Ph.D. (Weizmann Institute)
Natalie Porat-Shliom, Ph.D. (NIH NCI)
February
24
NIH VideoCast
Hot Zones: How Climate Change Fuels Infectious Disease
Rita Colwell, Ph.D. (former NSF Director)
Tovi Lehmann, Ph.D. (NIH NIAID)
March
3
NIH VideoCast
From Sunlight to Sickness: The Evolutionary Roots of Human Disease
Samer Hattar, Ph.D. (NIH NIMH)
Matthew Powner, Ph.D. (University College London)
March
10
NIH VideoCast Biotech Frontiers: Rewriting Life in the 21st Century
Vincent Ho, M.D. (USUHS)
Manu Platt, Ph.D. (NIH NIBIB)
March
17
NIH VideoCast GLP-1: From Lab Discovery to Blockbuster Therapy
Svetlana Mojsov, Ph.D. (Rockefeller)
Yaron Rotman, M.D. (NIH NIDDK)
March
24
NIH VideoCast
Womb Wars: How Maternal-Fetal Conflicts Shape Development
Nihal Altan-Bonnet, Ph.D. (NIH NHLBI)
Petra Arck, M.D. (U. Hamburg-Eppendorf)
March
31
NIH VideoCast Myelodysplastic Syndromes: Cracking the Code of Blood Disorders
Emma Groarke, M.D. (NIH NHLBI)
Dan Larson, Ph.D. (NIH NCI)
April
7
NIH VideoCast The Immune Identity Crisis: How the Body Knows Itself
Mark Anderson, M.D., Ph.D. (UCSF)
Michail Lionakis, M.D. (NIAID)
April
14
NIH VideoCast Can We Hear Again? Genomic Medicine and the Future of Hearing
Wade Chien, M.D. (NIH NIDCD)
Uri Manor, Ph.D. (UCSD)
April
21
NIH VideoCast
Chronic Graft-vs-Host: The Battle Within
Steven Pavletic, M.D., Ph.D. (NIH NCI)
Bruce Blazar M.D. (U Minnesota)
April
28
NIH VideoCast Psychedelics and the Brain: Risk, Reward, and the New Frontier of Mental Health
Joshua Siegel, M.D., Ph.D. (NYU Langone)
Nora Volkov, M.D. (NIDA Director)
May
5
NIH VideoCast From Genome to Bedside: The Genetics Revolution in Medicine
Teri Manolio, M.D. (NIH NHGRI)
Robert Nussbaum, M.D. (UCSF)
May
12
NIH VideoCast Taming of the Gut: New Frontiers in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Ivan Fuss, M.D. (NIH NIAID)
Ahmet Ozen, M.D. (Marmara University School Medicine)

 


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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Sign language interpreting services are available upon request. Individuals who need interpreting services or other reasonable accommodation to participate in this event should contact the WALS Office, [email protected], 301-594-6747.

Previous presentations may be found by searching "Demystifying Medicine" in the NIH Videocast website: Past Presentations.

Contact the Demystifying Medicine team with additional questions or concerns: [email protected].


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