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