Previous Presenters
2018 - The Connected Brain
- Frances Jensen, MD
University of Pennsylvania
- Ricardo Dolmetsch, PhD
Novartis Institute for BioMedical Research
Stanford University
- Dr. Erwin Neher
1991 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry
2017 - Pediatrics
- Jeffery Molkentin, PhD
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
University of Cincinnati
- Wendy Chung, MD, PhD
Columbia University
2016 - Molecular Machines in Human Disease
- Feng Zhang, PhD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- George Daley, MD, PhD
Harvard Medical School
2015 - Applying Chemical Biology to Understand and Treat Human Disease
- Bradford Gibson, PhD
Buck Institute for Research on Aging
- Hugo Bellen, DVM, PhD
HHMI/Baylor College of Medicine
- Brent Stockwell, PhD
HHMI ECS/Columbia University
2014 - Diabetes: Mechanisms and Treatment
- Eva L. Feldman, MD, PhD
University of Michigan
- Jens C. Bruning, MD
Max Planck Institute for Neurological Research, Cologne
- Morris J. Birnbaum, MD, PhD
University of Pennsylvania
2013 - Molecules and Mental Illness
- Kenneth Kendler, MD
Virginia Commonwealth University
- Andrew Feinberg, MD, MPH
Johns Hopkins University
- H. Sebastian Seung, PhD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2012 - The Excitable Brain: order & disorder in the nervous system
- Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD
Stanford University
- Jeff Noebels, MD, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine
- Gina Turrigiano, PhD
Brandeis University
- David McCormick, PhD
Yale University
- Mary (Missy) Cummings, PhD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2011 - Translational Genomics
- Rima Kaddurah-Daouk, PhD
Duke University Medical Center
- Ruth Ley, PhD
Cornell University
- Dianna Milewicz, MD, PhD
University of Texas Medical School-Houston
- Robert Strausberg, PhD
Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research
2010 - Genetics
- Kaare Christensen, DMSc
University of Southern Denmark
- Joel Hirschhorn, MD, PhD
Harvard University Medical School
- Deborah Nickerson, PhD
University of Washington
- David A. Schwartz, MD
National Jewish Health
- Deepak Srivastava, MD
University of California, San Francisco
- Richard Weinshilboum, MD
Mayo Clinic
2009 - Cardiovascular and Excitable Cell Biology
- David Clapham, MD, PhD
Harvard Medical School
- Silvia G. Priori, MD, PhD
University of Pavia, Italy
- Denis Nobel, PhD, FRS
Oxford University
- Richard Tsien, DPhil
Stanford University Medical School
2008 - Innate Immunity
- Sergio Grinstein, PhD
The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute
- Douglas Golenbock, MD
University of Massachusetts Medical School
- Charles Serhan, PhD
Harvard Medical School
- Richard Gallo, MD, PhD
University of California- San Diego
2007 - Growing the Biomedical Sciences in Iowa
- Funmi Olopade, MD, FACP
University of Chicago Medical Center
- Gerald Schulman, MD, PhD
University of California- Los Angeles
- Richard Hynes, PhD
Massachusetts Institutes of Technology
2006 - Of Mice and Men
- Tyler Jacks, PhD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Ken Philipson, PhD
University of California- Los Angeles
- Andrew Marks, MD
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
- Eric Olson, PhD
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
- Richard P. Lifton, MD, PhD
Yale University
2005 - Building Bridges in Science
- Gregory J. Hannon, PhD
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
- David Ginsburg, MD
University of Michigan
- Erika von Mutius, MD
Munich University Children's Hospital
- Carole Ober, PhD
University of Chicago
- Jules Hoffman, MD, PhD
Universite Louis Pasteur
2004 - Mapping the Road to Scientific Discovery
- Edward L. Kaplan, MD
University of Minnesota Medical School
- Goran K. Hansson, MD, PhD
Karolinska Institute
- Judah Folkman, MD
Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
2003 - Constructing the Future of Medicine
- Michael W. Schwartz, MD
University of Washington
- Rodney A. Hayward, MD
VA Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MI
- Diane Krause, MD, PhD
Yale University School of Medicine
- Stephen A. Morse, MSPH, PhD
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
2002 - The Intersection of Science and Health: 25 Years of the MSTP Program
- Christine Seidman, MD
Harvard Medical School
- Michael S. Brown, MD
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas
- Elizabeth Barrett-Conner, MD
University of California- San Diego
- Brian J. Druker, MD
Oregon Health and Science University
- Leon E. Rosenberg, MD
Princeton University
2001 - Biomedical and Public Health Research in the Post Genomic Era
- M. Anne Spence, PhD
University of California- Irvine
- David A. Greenberg, PhD
Mount Sinai Medical Center
- Bennett Shapiro, MD
Merck Research Laboratories
- Alison Goate, DPhil
Washington University School of Medicine
- Lap-Chee Tsui, OC, PhD
The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute
2000 - Antimicrobials, Host Defense and Bacterial Resistance
- Jules A. Hoffman, PhD
Institut de Biologic Moleculaire et Cellulaire, Strasbourg, France
- Julien E. Davies, PhD
University of British Columbia
- Hiroshi Nikaido, MD
University of California- Berkeley
- C. Kendall Stover, PhD
PathoGenesis, Inc.
1999 - Molecular Mechanisms of Viral Infection
- Joseph Sodroski, MD
Harvard Medical School
- Mavis Agbandje-McKenna, PhD
University of Warwick
- Michael Summers
University of Maryland Baltimore County
- Gail Wertz
University of Alabama Birmingham
1998 - Molecular Interactions Between Microbes and the Human Host
- Norma W. Andrews, PhD
Yale University School of Medicine
- David W. Dyer, PhD
Oklahoma University Health Sciences Center
- Don Ganem, MD
University of California- San Francisco
- Stephen J. O'Brien, PhD
National Cancer Institute
- Guy R. Cornelis, PhD
International Institute of Cell Pathology, Universite Catholique de Louvain