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Ramon and Victoria Lim Medical Science Lectureship

 

The Ramon and Victoria Lim Medical Science Lectureship Fund was created in 2004 with a generous gift from Drs. Ramon and Victoria Lim. The fund supports the visits to Iowa City of eminent scientists working in neuroscience and internal medicine. Ramon Lim, MD, PhD, is a University of Iowa professor emeritus of neurology and a researcher in the area of brain proteins and brain cell biology. Victoria Lim, MD, is a UI professor emeritus of internal medicine who studied endocrine disorders in patients with kidney disease. The Lims are long-time residents of Iowa City and members of the University community. In addition to their clinical and research work in medicine, the Lims are active supporters of the arts. Ramon Lim is an accomplished calligrapher and Vicky is a writer.


2024 Lecture

April 12, 2024 | 11:00am - 12:00pm
Urmila Sahai Seminar Room | 2117 MERF


Dr. Yifan Cheng, PhD
"Structures of INO80-hex and -nuc complexes - the basis of its mechanistic versatility."

Dr. Cheng is a HHMI Investigator and a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco.  To learn more about Dr. Cheng, visit their website.

Co-Sponsored by the Distinguished Biomedical Scholars Lecture Series

 


Past Lecturers

April 6, 2023
Dr. Ning Zheng, PhD
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
University of Washington
"Targeting Ubiquitin Ligases: Hormones, Metabolites & Drugs"

 

April 14, 2022
Dr. Yi Zhang
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
“Transcriptional Regulation: From Preimplantation to Innate Immunity”

 

May 2, 2019
Dr. Lily Jan, PhD
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
University of California, San Francisco
"The Enigmatic TMEM16 Family"

 

March 28, 2018
Dr. Duojia Pan, PhD
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
"Hippo signaling in growth control and beyond"

 

May 1, 2017
Dr. Doris Tsao, PhD
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
California Institute of Technology
"Face Perception: A Window into Visual Object Representation"

 

April 18, 2016
Dr. Zhijian "James" Chen, PhD
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
"Enemy Within - Innate Immune Sensing of Cytosolic DNA by the cGAS-STING Pathway"

 

October 13, 2015
Dr. Timothy Griffiths
Newcastle University and University College London, UK
"What the Ear Tells the Brain (and Mind): Normal and Abnormal Auditory Cognition"

 

November 17, 2011
Dr. George L. King
Harvard Medical School
“Diabetes and its Complications” 

 

April 20, 2011
Dr. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
Great Ape Trust, Des Moines, IA
“Humanity, Morality and Next of Kin – 
An inquiry into the nature of primate intelligence”

 

November 10, 2009
Dr. Amita Sehgal
Howard Hughes Medical Institute 
University of Pennsylvania
“Circadian Clock – A link between metabolism and sleep?”

 

October 18, 2007
Dr. Streamson C. Chua
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
“Leptin Receptors in Energy Balance and Diabetes Susceptibility.”