The Rockefeller University

Event Details

Type: Friday Lecture Series
Speaker(s): Benjamin Cravatt, Ph.D., Professor Gilula Chair of Chemical Biology, department of chemistry, Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute
Open to: Tri-Institutional

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