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Event Details

Type

Friday Lecture Series

Speaker(s)

Richard Lifton, M.D., Ph.D., director, Yale Center for Human Genetics and Genomics, chair, department of genetics and Sterling Professor of Genetics and Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Speaker bio(s)

Richard Lifton received his B.A. from Dartmouth College, M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University and completed clinical training in medicine at Harvard University prior to moving to Yale in 1993. Dr. Lifton's laboratory has used human genetics and genomics to identify causes of heart, kidney and bone disease. By investigating thousands of families from around the world, his group has identified more than 35 human disease genes. These include key genes and pathways that are critical to the risk of hypertension, stroke, heart attack and osteoporosis. These studies have provided new diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to these diseases, which affect more than one billion people worldwide. Dr. Lifton also chairs the Scientific Advisory Board of Merck and the NIH Advisory Committee for Large Scale Genomic Sequencing. He serves on the Governing Councils of the Institute of Medicine and the Association of American Physicians, and on the Scientific Advisory Boards of The Simons Foundation Autism Project, The Gallo Foundation of the University of California, San Francisco and the Broad Institute of Harvard, MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital. His honors include election to the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine. He has received the highest scientific awards of the American Heart Association, the Council for High Blood Pressure Research, the American Society of Hypertension, the American Society of Neprhology, the International Society of Hypertension and the International Society of Nephrology. He received the 2008 Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences.

Open to

Public

Reception

Refreshments, 3:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m., Abby Lounge

Contact

Robert Houghtaling

Phone

(212) 327-8072

Sponsor

Robert Houghtaling
(212) 327-8072
rhoughtali@rockefeller.edu