Event Detail (Archived)

Saving the Synapse: Developmental Critical Periods and Alzheimer’s Disease

  • This event already took place in March 2016
  • Auditorium, Rockefeller Research Laboratories, MSKCC, 430 E. 67th St.

Event Details

Type
MSKCC President's Research Seminar
Speaker(s)
Carla Shatz, M.D., Ph.D., Sapp Family Provostial Professor, department of biology and department of neurobiology, David Starr Jordan Director, Stanford Bio-X, Stanford University School of Medicine
Open to
Public
Host
Julia Kaltschmidt, PhD
Reception
Refreshments, 4:00 p.m.
Contact
Danielle Rose
Phone
(646) 888-3711
Sponsor
Danielle Rose
(646) 888-3711
rosed@mskcc.org

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