Duke Medicine’s 75th Anniversary Science Symposium

On Sept. 25 and Sept. 26, thirteen of the country’s top scientists will be at Duke to share their thoughts on emerging great ideas in science and how today’s discoveries might change medicine.

 

Register online or call Jenny Jones at 919-667-2517 no later than Friday, September 22, 2006. Registration is free.

 

The symposium’s keynote lecture will be given Sept. 25 by Paul Nurse, Ph.D., co-recipient of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

 

Day two will start with a plenary lecture by Linda Buck, Ph.D., co-recipient of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, which will be followed by concurrent sessions featuring 10 of the country’s top scientists. Joseph Goldstein, M.D., co-recipient of the 1985 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, will present the symposium’s final plenary lecture, “How To Solve a Scientific Puzzle: Clues from Broadway and Stockholm,” which will be followed by a reception.

 

In addition to Nurse, Buck and Goldstein, speakers are Bruce Alberts, Carol Greider, Helen Hobbs, Richard Lifton, Steve McKnight, Eric Olson, Solomon Snyder, Thomas Steitz, Bruce Stillman, and Christopher T. Walsh.

 

Symposium activities will take place in the Searle Center and the Schiciano Auditorium in the Fitzpatrick Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering, Medicine and Applied Sciences (CIEMAS) Building.