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Minds That Matter

Oct 28
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October 28, 2010 9AM → 3:30PM Eastern Time (GMT-05:00) Export
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Gairdner 2010 Awardees Lecture

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2010 CANADA GAIRDNERAWARDS RECIPIENTS LECTURES
Minds That Matter 

Thursday, October 28
9:00 a.m. - 4:15 p.m.
Macleod Auditorium, Medical Sciences Building, University of Toronto - 1 Kings College Circle, Toronto, ON

This event if free and open to the public, registration is not required.  

9:00  

Dr. John Dirks, President & Scientific Director, The Gairdner Foundation            
(Chair) Dr. Catharine Whiteside, Dean, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto. CA        

9:15

Dr. Gregg Semenza, 2010 Canada Gairdner International Laureate, Director, Vascular Biology Program, The Johns Hopkins Institute for Cell Engineering, Baltimore, MD,USA

Regulation of oxygen homeostatsis by hypoxia - inducible factor 1

9:55

Dr. Peter Ratcliffe, 2010 Canada Gairdner International Laureate, Nuffield Professor & Head Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, NDM, Oxford, UK

 Protein hydroxylation and the signaling of hypoxia

10:35 
Break
10:55

Dr. William Kaelin, 2010 Canada Gairdner International Laureate, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA

The von Hippel-Lindau hereditary cancer syndrome:  Insights into oxygen sensing

 11:35

Dr. William Catterall, 2010 Canada Gairdner International Laureate, Chair & Professor, Department of Pharmacology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

Ion channels, electrical signaling and neuroplasticity

12:15  LUNCH
1:15 

Chair -  Dr. Guy Rouleau, Director, Ste-Justine Hospital Research Centre, Montreal, QC

1:25

Dr. Pierre Chambon, 2010 Canada Gairdner International Laureate, Director Emeritus, Institut de Genetique et de Biologie Moleculaire et Cellulaire, (GBMC), France

The discovery of a novel molecular mechanism involved in control of gene  expression by glucocorticoids may improve their therapeutic usefulness

2:05

Dr. Cal Stiller, 2010 Canada Gairdner Wightman Laureate, Professor Emeritus, University of Western Ontario, Stilco Corporation, London, ON, CA

Translational Research- A Canadian perspective

2:45

Dr.  Nicholas White, 2010 Canada Gairdner Global Health Laureate, Director, Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

The challenge of eliminating malaria

3:25

Dr. Jack Szostak, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Professor, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, US

Learning about the origin of life from efforts to design an artificial cell

4:05John Dirks, President & Scientific Director, The Gairdner Foundation, Toronto

1 Comment

Carole Reiss Carole Reiss said 15 months ago

Just a question: Is Professor Richard DAWKINS(Oxford) a Member of this Foundation ?

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