Oct
9
Wed
Imagining the Future: World of CRISPR: Editing Genomes and Altering Our Future @ LKSC Berg Hall A-B
Oct 9 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Imagining the Future: World of CRISPR: Editing Genomes and Altering Our Future @ LKSC Berg Hall A-B

Presenter: Jennifer Doudna, PhD
Professor of Chemistry, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Li Ka Shing Chancellor’s Professor in Biomedical and Health
University of California, Berkeley

Gene editing with CRISPR technology is transforming biology. Understanding the underlying chemical mechanisms of RNA-guided DNA and RNA cleavage provides a foundation for both conceptual advances and technology development. I will discuss how bacterial CRISPR adaptive immune systems inspire creation of powerful genome editing tools, enabling advances in both fundamental biology and applications in medicine. I will also discuss the ethical challenges of some of these applications with a focus on what our decisions now might mean for future generations.

As an internationally renowned professor of Chemistry and Molecular and Cell Biology at U.C. Berkeley, Doudna and her colleagues rocked the research world in 2012 by describing a simple way of editing the DNA of any organism using an RNA-guided protein found in bacteria. This technology, called CRISPR-Cas9, has opened the floodgates of possibility for human and non-human applications of gene editing, including assisting researchers in the fight against HIV, sickle cell disease and muscular dystrophy. Doudna is an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, the National Academy of Inventors and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is also a Foreign Member of the Royal Society, and has received many other honors including the Kavli Prize, the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, the Heineken Prize, the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award and the Japan Prize. She is the co-author with Sam Sternberg of “A Crack in Creation,” a personal account of her research and the societal and ethical implications of gene editing.

For further information: http://med.stanford.edu/radiology/imagining-the-future.html .

Apr
22
Wed
CANCELLED – Imagining the Future: Journey Through Academia, Government and Industry: Lessons Learned @ CANCELLED
Apr 22 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
CANCELLED - Imagining the Future: Journey Through Academia, Government and Industry: Lessons Learned @ CANCELLED

Please note this seminar is now cancelled and will be rescheduled for a future date. Please contact Ashley Williams (ashleylw@stanford.edu) with any questions or concerns. Thank you for your understanding!

 

Presenter: Elias Zerhouni, MD

Professor Emeritus

John Hopkins University

 

Abstract

In a career that spanned academia as a physician scientist, government as director of the NIH and then president of R&D for a global  pharmaceutical company I share my experience and lessons learned on the way. While different in essence, academia, government and industry have symbiotic and complementary roles. The geopolitics of Research and development across the globe will be presented and their implications for biomedicine will be discussed along with the key emerging trends shaping the research agenda in the years to come across the changing landscape of healthcare. Personal advice on how best to navigate one’s career in these different environments will be shared.

About

Elias Zerhouni, M.D., Professor Emeritus Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

Dr. Zerhouni was most recently the President, Global Research & Development, and a member of the Executive Committee for Sanofi from January 2011 to July 2018.

Dr. Zerhouni’s academic career was spent at the Johns Hopkins University and Hospital where he was professor of Radiology and Biomedical engineering and senior adviser for Johns Hopkins Medicine. He served as Chair of the Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Vice Dean for Research and Executive Vice Dean of the School of Medicine from 1996 to 2002 before his appointment as Director of the National Institutes of Health from 2002 to 2008. In that position he oversaw the NIH’s 27 Institutes and Centers with more than 18,000 employees and a budget of $29.5 billion (2008).

In November 2009, President Obama appointed Dr. Zerhouni as one of the first presidential U.S. science envoys.

Dr. Zerhouni also served as senior fellow to the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation from 2009 to 2010 and senior advisor to the CEO of Sanofi.

Dr. Zerhouni has founded or co-founded five start-up companies, authored more than 200 publications and holds several patents.  He has assumed positions on several Boards, including most recently, the board of the Lasker Foundation, Research!America and the NIH Foundation. He is also a member of the U.S. National Academy of Medicine and the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. He received the prestigious Legion of Honor medal from the French National Order in 2008, and was elected in 2010 as a member of the French Academy of Medicine and appointed as Chair of Innovation at the College de France in 2011.

For further information: http://med.stanford.edu/radiology/imagining-the-future.html .

Nov
13
Fri
ELSI Friday Forum: Structural Racism and Genomics in the Time of COVID @ Zoom
Nov 13 @ 9:00 am – 10:00 am
ELSI Friday Forum: Structural Racism and Genomics in the Time of COVID @ Zoom

ELSI Friday Forum is a monthly one-hour seminar series featuring topics on the ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) of genetics and genomics research.This new series is brought to you by ELSIhub, the soon-to-be-launched portal supported by the NHGRI-funded Center for ELSI Resources and Analysis.

Join us from 12:00-1:00 pm ET / 9:00-10:00 am PT on the second Friday of each month for talks and panels on a broad array of issues, explored through an ELSI lens.

We are excited to kick off the ELSI Friday Forum series on November 13 with “Structural Racism and Genomics in the Time of COVID.” This conversation features Dayna Bowen Matthew, JD, PhD, Dean and Harold H. Greene Professor of Law at George Washington University and Vence L. Bonham, Jr, JD, Senior Advisor to the NHGRI Director on Genomics and Health Disparities and Associate Investigator, Social and Behavioral Research Branch at NHGRI.

Dec
11
Fri
ELSI Friday Forum: Addressing Racism in Research and Clinical Practice @ Zoom
Dec 11 @ 9:00 am – 10:00 am
ELSI Friday Forum: Addressing Racism in Research and Clinical Practice @ Zoom

ELSI Friday Forum is a monthly one-hour seminar series featuring topics on the ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) of genetics and genomics research.This new series is brought to you by ELSIhub, the soon-to-be-launched portal supported by the NHGRI-funded Center for ELSI Resources and Analysis. Join us from 12:00-1:00 pm ET / 9:00-10:00 am PT on the second Friday of each month for talks and panels on a broad array of issues, explored through an ELSI lens.

On December 11 we’ll continue a conversation centered around “Addressing Racism in Research and Clinical Practice” with panelists Rhea Boyd, MD, MPH, pediatrician and public health advocate who serves as the chief medical officer of San Diego 211, and as the director of equity and justice for The California Children’s Trust; Daphne Martschenko, PhD, postdoctoral fellow at the Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics; and Robert D. Steiner, MD, Editor-in-Chief of Genetics in Medicine.