Ticket information:
Tickets to this FREE event are available to the public (limit 4 per person) and must be picked up in advance from the Chan Centre Ticket Office (Mon-Sat, 12-5:00 p.m.) or printed for a nominal fee by clicking on these links: morning session and/or afternoon session. The morning and afternoon sessions are ticketed as separate events; please ensure you have requested tickets for the correct session(s). For more information: (604)875-3535. Morning and afternoon sessions are ticketed separately (see ticket information below).

Speakers:

Sydney Brenner (Gairdner and Nobel Laureate)
Senior Distinguished Fellow, Crick-Jacobs Center
Professor, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, San Diego, California

Judy Illes
Professor of Neurology, National Core for Neuroethics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC

Cynthia Kenyon
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Director, Larry L. Hillblom Center for the Biology of Aging, Petaluma, CA

Muin Khoury
Director, National Office of Public Health Genomics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA

Peter Singer
Senior Scientist and Professor of Medicine at the McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health, University Health Network and University of Toronto, Toronto, ON

Roger Tsien (Gairdner and Nobel Laureate)
Professor, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Pharmacology, University of California, San Diego

Harold Varmus (Gairdner and Nobel Laureate)
President and Chief Executive Officer, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY

Carl Wieman (Gairdner and Nobel Laureate)
Director, Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC