Molecular Medicine Lecture Series

The Molecular Medicine Lecture Series and the yearly MSTP Distinguished Lecturer are chosen and hosted by the MSTP Students' Scientific Advisory Committee.   Molecular Medicine Lectures are accompanied by dinner and can occur throughout the year. 

Recent MSTP Distinguished Lecturers have been:

2006-2007:  Dr. Walter J. Koch, W.W. Smith Professor of Medicine and Director of the Center for Translational Research, Thomas Jefferson Medical College, "Myocardial GRKs:  Translational Studies in Heart Failure" 

2005-2006:  Dr. William E. Evans, Director and CEO, St. Jude's Research Hospital, "Cancer Pharmacogenomics: Childhood Cancer as a Model"

2004-2005:  Dr. Phyllis Wise, Dean of Biological Sciences, University of California-Davis, "Estrogens: Protective or Risk Factors in the Adult Brain"

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2007-2008 Schedule

 Wednesday
 November 7, 2007

 5:15-7:00, MR5-1041.
 Dinner provided

 Raghu Mirmira, MD PhD
 "From the Bedside to the Bench:
 Tackling Diabetes One Cell at a Time"

 Wednesday
 December 12, 2007

 5:15-7:00, MR5-1041.
 Dinner provided

 Robert Strieter, MD
 "CXC chemokines in mediating vascular
 remodeling and trafficking of adult
 progenitor cells in pulmonary fibrosis"

 Wednesday
 March 26, 2008

 5:15 - 7:00, MR5-1041.
 Dinner provided 

 Chris Moskaluk, MD PhD
 "Genomic Analysis of Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma"
 May 12, 2008
 4:00 pm Lecture  
 5:00 pm Reception
 MSTP Dinner to follow
 MSTP Distinguished Lecturer:
 Helen Hobbs, MD

 Eugene McDermott Distinguished Chair
 for the Study of Human Growth and Development
 1995 Dallas Heart Ball Chair in Cardiology Research
 University of Texas-Southwestern