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Office of the Director

All Lectures are in Masur Auditorium, Bldg. 10, at 3:00 p.m.on Wednesdays (exceptions are marked with an * below). The lectures may be accessed from personal computers on the web, and are available on videotape at the NIH Library, Bldg. 10, approximately one week after the lecture date. Following the lectures are informal receptions featuring poster displays by winners of the Fellows Awards for Research Excellence (FARE).
Hearing Impaired? The WALS are now captioned for the Web or you may request sign language or a monitor with the captions in Masur auditorium. Check the ORS website to arrange interpretation or contact the Worksite and Enrichment Program Branch (WEPB) TTY at 301-435-1908. For other reasonable accommodations or information, please call: Hilda Madine (301 594-5595).

9/8/2004 Anniversary Lecture, The National Institute on Drug Abuse:
Joanna S. Fowler, Ph.D, Senior Chemist, Program Director, Center for Translational Neuroimaging, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Translational Neuroimaging in Drug Research
Hosts: NIDA, PET IG, Women Scientist Advisors

9/15
Joan S.Brugge, PhD, Professor, Chair, Department of Cell Biology
Harvard Medical School
To Be Announced
Host: Cell Biology IG

9/22 The Margaret Pittman Lecture:
Lily Jan, Ph.D., HHMI, and DeLoris Lange Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, UCSF
Potassium Channels
Host: NIMH

9/29 NO WALS -- NIH Research Festival

10/6 The NIH Director's Lecture
David Cox, M.D., Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer, Perlagen Sciences, Inc
Title to Be Announced
Host: Office of the Director, NIDCD

10/13 The Khoury Lecture
Laimonis A. Laimins, Ph.D., Professor of Microbiology- Immunology, Northwestern University
Lecture Title To Be Announced
Host: NCI

10/20
Michael Rout, Associate Professor and Director of the Laboratory of Cellular and Structural Biology, The Rockefeller University
Lecture Title To Be Announced
Host: Proteomics IG, SBIG

10/27 The DeWitt Stetten, Jr. Lecture
Rod MacKinnon. M.D., Professor, Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology and Biophysics
Investigator, HHMI, The Rockefeller University
Lecture Title To Be Announced
Host: NIGMS

11/03 The NIH Director's Seventh Astute Clinician Lecture
Gerald Reaven, M.D., Head of the Division of Endocrinology, Gerontology and Metabolism and Director of the Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center at the Palo Alto Dept.of Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Stanford University School of Medicine
Lecture Title To Be Announced
Host: Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center

11/10
Linda Waite, Ph.D. Lucy Flower Professor in Urban Sociology, Univ. of Chicago
Lecture Title To Be Announced
Host: Behavioral and Social Science IG

11/17 -- No WALS

11/24
Kari Stefansson, M.D., President and Chief Executive Officer, deCODE Genetics
Lecture Title to Be Announced
Host: NHLBI

12/1 -- No WALS

12/8
Eduardo Bruera M.D. Professor and Chair, Department of Palliative Care & Rehabilitative Medicine,
University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Lecture Title to Be Announced
Host: End of Life IG

12/15 The Florence Mahoney Lecture
Leroy Hood, M.D., Ph.D., President and Director, Institute for Systems Biology
Systems of Biology and Predictive and Preventive Medicine
Host::NIA

12/24 - 12/31 -- Holiday Break

1/5/2005 The NIH Director's G. Burroughs Mider Lecture
Neal S. Young, Ph.D., Senior Investigator and Chief, Hematology Branch, NHLBI
Lecture Title to be Announced
Host: NHLBI

1/12
Bill Newsome, Professor and Investigator, HHMI, Department of Neurobiology,Stanford University School of Medicine
Lecture Title to Be Announced
Host: Integrative Neuroscience IG

1/19
Joseph Nadeau., Ph.D.James H. Jewel Professor and Chair, Department of Genetics,
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Lecture Title to Be Announced
Host: Systems Biology IG

1/26
Mary-Claire King, PhD., Professor, Division of Medical Genetics Univ. of Washington
Lecture Title to Be Announced
Host: Breast Cancer Faculty and CCR/NCI

1/27 Special Thursday Lecture: The Shannon Lecture
Herbert Pardes, President, New York-Presbyterian Hospital
Lecture Title to Be Announced
Host: The NIH Alumni Association

2/2
Richard Davidson., Ph.D. Department of Psychology, Univ. of Wisconsin
Lecture Title to Be Announced
Hosts: Behav.SocSci IG/CogNeuroscience IG

2/9/
Lewis Cantley, PhD, Professor, Department of Cell Biol, Chief, Division of Signal Transduction, BIH, Harvard
Lecture Title to Be Announced
Host: Signal Transduction IG

2/16
Judy Campisi, Ph.D., Head, Center for Research and Education on Aging, Lawrence Berkeley Natl. Lab
Lecture Title--To Be Announced
Host: CCR/NCI?

2/23 The NIH Director's Lecture
Peter Agre , Ph.D. Professor, Dept. of Biol. Chem., Johns Hopkins Univ. Sch. of Medicine
Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, 2003
Lecture Title to Be Announced
Host: SBIG

3/2
Jennifer Graves, Professor & Head of the Comparative Genomics Group, Australian National University
Lecture Title to Be Announced
Host: Genetics IG

3/9
Seth Grant, Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Lecture Title to Be Announced
Host: Proteomics, SBIG, Neurobiology

3/16
Suzanne McKee., Ph. D., Associate Director, Smith Kettlewell Eye Res Inst
Lecture Title to Be Announced

Host: Integrative Neuroscience IG

3/23
Hugh Pelham, Ph.D., MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Lecture Title to Be Announced
Host: Cell Biology IG

3/30 The NIH Director's Cultural Lecture
Ray Kurzweil Chairman and CEO, Kurzweil Technologies, Inc.
Lecture Title to Be Announced
Host Advanced Technologies IG

4/6
Henry Bourne, M.D., Professor of Pharmacology and Medicine, Dept of Cell and Molecular Pharmacology., UCSF
Lecture Title to Be Announced
Host: Immunology IG

4/13
Richard Losick, Ph.D., Professor., Harvard
Lecture Title to Be Announced
Host: Lambda Lunch

4/20
Robert Stroud, Ph.D., Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics; Pharmaceutical Chemistry, UCSF
Lecture Title to Be Announced
Host: X-ray Diffraction IG/SBIG

4/27
Diane Mathis, Ph.D., Section on Immunology and Immunogenetics,.Harvard Medical School
Lecture Title to Be Announced
Host:

5/4 The NIH Director's Dyer Lecture
Jack Dixon, Ph.D, Dean, SciAffairs & Prof, Pharm /Cellular & Mol Medicine / Chem & Biochem Cancer Biology Program, UCSD
Lecture Title to Be Announced
Hosts: Immunology IG

5/11 The General Motors Cancer Res. Conf.

5/18
Stephen C. West., Cancer Research UK, London Research Institute, Clare Hall Laboratories
Lecture Title to Be Announced
Hosts: DNA Repair IG

5/25 The 2005 Robert S. Gordon, Jr. Lecture in Epidemiology
JoAnn Manson, M.D., D.Phil, MPH, Professor of Medicine and Chief, Div. Preventive Med&Prof. Epidem.
Harvard Med. Sch
Lecture Title to Be Announced
Host: Epidemiology and Clinical Trials Interest Group

6/1
Stuart L. Schreiber, Ph.D. Morris Loeb Professor and Chair, HHMI, Dept. of Chemistry & Chemical Biology Harvard University
Lecture Title to Be Announced
Host: Chemistry Interest Group

6/8
Jonathan Sprent, MD, PhD, Professor , Department of Immunology IMM4., Scripps
Lecture Title to Be Announced
Host: Cytokine IG, Immunology IG

6/15
Sydney Brenner, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 2002, and Distinguished Professor, Salk Inst.
Lecture Title to Be Announced

Hosts: The NIH Fellows

6/22
Francis Chisari, Director, General Clinical Research Center&Professor and Head Division of Experimental Pathology,
Scripps
Lecture Title to Be Announced
Host: Immunology Interest Group

6/29
Stephen O'Rahilly, Cambridge University
Lecture Title to Be Announced
Host: Diabetes IG

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The target audience for the WALS is: advanced students and practitioners in biomedical fields; healthcare professionals; and doctoral-level scientists who seek to update and broaden their understanding of contemporary biomedical resesarch and the environment in which it is conducted.

This page is updated regularly as additional information is available. It was last updated on12/26/2004 by Celia Hooper

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