Cystic Fibrosis: From Gene Discovery to Basic Biology to Precision Medicines

Date: 

Thursday, October 4, 2018, 1:30pm to 5:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Medical School, Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, New Research Building, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston

The Warren Alpert Foundation and Harvard Medical School invite you to the Warren Alpert Foundation Prize symposium honoring:

 

Francis Collins

Paul Negulescu

Bonnie Ramsey

Lap-Chee Tsui

Michael Welsh

 

for pioneering contributions to the discovery of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene and to the subsequent research that led to the development of transformational precision medicines to treat the underlying cause of cystic fibrosis.

Cystic Fibrosis: From Gene Discovery to Basic Biology to Precision Medicines

Thursday, October 4, 2018

1:30 – 5:30 p.m.

Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, New Research Building, Harvard Medical School

77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston

 

RSVP: wap@hms.harvard.edu

 

Opening Remarks:

George Q. Daley, MD, PhD

Dean of the Faculty of Medicine

Harvard University

 

Vamsi K. Mootha, MD

Professor of Systems Biology and Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital

HHMI Investigator

 

Featured Speakers

Francis Collins, MD, PhD

Director, National Institutes of Health
 

Paul Negulescu, PhD

Senior Vice President, Research, Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated
 

Bonnie Ramsey, MD

Vice Chair and Endowed Professor of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine

Director, Center for Clinical and Translational Research, Seattle Children’s Research Institute
 

Michael Welsh, MD

Professor, Internal Medicine and Molecular Physiology and Biophysics

Investigator HHMI, Director, Pappajohn Biomedical Institute

     

Pamela Davis, MD, PhD

Dean, School of Medicine, and Senior Vice President for Medical Affairs, Case Western Reserve University

 

Jay Rajagopal, MD

Professor of Medicine, Center for Regenerative Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital

HHMI Faculty Scholar

 

Seating is on a first come, first served basis

For complete information visit: http://warrenalpert.org/symposium

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