Stephen Quake, $500K Lemelson-MIT Prize winner
Dr. Stephen Quake - 2012 $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize Winner
Profile of Dr. Stephen Quake, winner of the 2012 $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize for his revolutionary work in drug discovery, genome analysis and personalized medicine.
Whitehead director talks Y chromosome with Stephen Colbert
Whitehead director talks Y chromosome with Stephen Colbert
Whitehead Institute Director David Page appears on Comedy Central's The Colbert Report to engage in a little lively banter about the future of the human Y chromosome.
Paradigm Shifts: From Biology to Technology to Medical ...
Paradigm Shifts: From Biology to Technology to Medical Applications
03/16/2011 1:30 PM KresgeRichard O. Hynes, PhD '71, Daniel K. Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research, Department of Biology; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Eric S. Lander, Professor of Biology ; Founding Director, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; ...
Technology Day 2001 - "Origins and Beyond: Our Place in the ...
Technology Day 2001 - "Origins and Beyond: Our Place in the Cosmos"
The 2001 MIT Technology Day takse place on June 9, 2001, on the theme "Origins and Beyond: Our Place in the Cosmos." Featured speakers include Eric S. Lander, "The Human Genome and Beyond;" Claude R. Canizares, "The Origin of the Universe;" Maria T. Zuber, "Probing ...
Artificial Life: A global good or evil? CIS audits the ...
Artificial Life: A global good or evil?
CIS audits the ...
The Center's series Audit of the Conventional Wisdom continues with a look at the recent discovery out of the Venter laboratory: artificial life. Is this a global good or evil? Ken Oye, director of the Center's Program on Emerging Technologies and associate professor ...
How Can Engineers Contribute to the Fight Against Malaria?
How Can Engineers Contribute to the Fight Against Malaria?
05/11/2010 6:00 PM MuseumSubra Suresh, ScD '81, Dean, MIT School of Engineering; ; Monica Diez"Silva, Post"doctoral fellow, DMSE; David Quinn, Graduate student, Mechanical EngineeringDescription: Malaria has afflicted mankind from time immemorial, confounding many ...
Lunch with a Laureate: Robert Horvitz
Lunch with a Laureate: Robert Horvitz
As an undergraduate at MIT, Robert Horvitz did not take a biology course until his senior year.
Autism: What Do We Know, What Do We Need?
Autism: What Do We Know, What Do We Need?
"I'll give you the 30,000 foot view of autism."
New Frontiers in Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder Research
New Frontiers in Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder Research
05/04/2009 3:00 PM 46"3002Ed Scolnick, Director, Psychiatric Disease Program and the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad InstituteDescription: In contrast to cardiovascular disease, few breakthrough remedies for psychiatric illness have emerged in the past ...
New Lessons in Cancer Research
New Lessons in Cancer Research
10/24/2007 6:00 PM MuseumJacqueline Lees, SM '86, PhD '90, Associate Director, Center for Cancer Research and Professor, Dept of BiologyDescription: Cancer is a conniving enemy. Try to kill it off through surgery or chemotherapy, and it finds a way to sneak back in. Jacqueline Lees tells an ...
Zebrafish and Cancer: What's the Connection?
Zebrafish and Cancer: What's the Connection?
09/19/2006 6:00 PM MuseumNancy Hopkins, Amgen, Inc. Professor of BiologyDescription: Through her rapport with the zebrafish, Nancy Hopkins has made large contributions to the fields of developmental biology and cancer research. But her model organism, and to some ...
Immunology and Cancer
Immunology and Cancer
06/08/2006 9:00 AM 46-3002Jianzhu Chen, Cottrell Professor of Biology;; Professor of ImmunologyDescription: Jianzhu Chen lays out the thorny challenges of harnessing the immune system to fight cancer. He starts with the basics: how the body employs two levels of defense against pathogens: ...
The RNAi Revolution
The RNAi Revolution
06/08/2006 10:30 AM 46-3002Phillip A. Sharp, HM, Institute Professor; Founding Director, McGovern Institute for Brain Research Description: When a Nobel Prize-winning pioneer of molecular biology embraces a new area of research as revolutionary, attention must be paid. Phillip A. Sharp's own ...
Animal Models of Cancer
Animal Models of Cancer
06/07/2006 11:00 AM 46-3002Jacqueline Lees, SM '86, PhD '90, Associate Director, Center for Cancer Research and Professor, Dept of BiologyDescription: Jacqueline Lees holds the lowly mouse in high regard. It is -beautifully developed" as a model system for cancer. Lees says that while ...
Cancer Research in the Genomic Era
Cancer Research in the Genomic Era
06/07/2006 2:30 PM 46-3002Eric S. Lander, Professor of Biology ; Founding Director, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; Member, Whitehead InstituteDescription: Eric Lander likens the current age of biological discovery to the days of great ocean-going exploration. After the world was mapped, ...
Introduction and Overview
Introduction and Overview
06/07/2006 8:00 AM 46-3002Susan Hockfield, President, MIT; ; Tyler Jacks, Director, David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and David H. Koch Professor, MITInvestigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Description: This inaugural address lays the groundwork for an 11-part ...
Introduction to Cancer Genetics
Introduction to Cancer Genetics
06/07/2006 8:30 AM 46-3002Robert A. Weinberg, '64, PhD '69, Daniel K. Ludwig and American Cancer Society Professor for Cancer Research Department of BiologyDescription: During the human lifetime, there are 10 million billion cell divisions and each division represents, as Robert Weinberg puts ...
Metastasis
Metastasis
06/07/2006 1:45 PM 46-3002Richard O. Hynes, PhD '71, Daniel K. Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research, Department of Biology; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical InstituteDescription: No diagnosis of cancer is welcome, but some scenarios are more dreaded than others. Richard Hynes discusses ...
The Cell Cycle and Cancer
The Cell Cycle and Cancer
06/07/2006 1:00 PM 46-3002Angelika Amon, Associate Professor of Biology, MIT;; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical InstituteDescription: We all start out as a single fertilized cell, and wind up, as fully formed humans, with 10 to the 13th cells. -The name of the game," says Angelika Amon, is ...