The Robert F. Furchgott Visiting Professor
2019
Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 2014
The Robert F. Furchgott Visiting Professor
Institute for Systems Neuroscience at the Norwegian University of
Science and Technology in Trondheim
“Neural codes for space and time in the entorhinal cortex”
April 19, 2019
2018
Louis Ignarro, Ph.D.
Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 1998
Professor Emeritus
Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology
UCLA School of Medicine
Los Angeles, California
“Road to Stockholm – A Nobel Mission”
Friday, October 19, 2018
2017
Eric R. Kandel, M.D.
Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 2000
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
University Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Columbia University Medical Center
"The Biology of Memory and Age-Related Memory Loss"
September 6, 2017
2016
Jennifer Doudna, Ph.D.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology
University of California, Berkeley
2015 Breakthrough Prize in LIfe Sciences
"Rewriting the Language of Life: Impacts and Challenges of DNA Editing."
November 17, 2016
2015
Robert J. Lefkowitz, M.D.
Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 2012
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
James B. Duke Professor of Medicine
Duke University School of Medicine
"Seven Transmembrane Receptors"
December 8, 2015
2014
F.-Ulrich Hartl, M.D.
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research 2011
Director at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany
"Molecular chaperones - Cellular machinery of protein folding and quality control"
April 23, 2014
2013
Craig Mello, Ph.D
Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 2006
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Distinguished Professor
University of Massachusetts Medical School
"RNA Memories: Recognition of Self/Non-self RNA in the C-elegans Germline""
May 9, 2013
2012
Jeffrey M. Friedman, M.D., Ph.D.
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research 2010
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Marilyn M. Simpson Professor
The Rockefeller University
"Leptin and the Biologic Basis of Obesity"
May 14, 2012
2011
Ralph M. Steinman, M.D.
Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 2011
Senior Physician and Henry G. Kunkel Professor
The Rockefeller University
"Vaccines to Mobilize Dendritic Cells"
April 26, 2011
2010
Ferid Murad, M.D., Ph.D.
Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 1998
Director Emeritus, The Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine for the Prevention
of Human Diseases
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
"Discovery of Nitric Oxide and Cyclic Signaling and their Role in Drug Development"
April 15, 2010
2009
Gary Ruvkun, Ph.D.
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research 2008
Professor of Genetics
Harvard Medical School
Center for Computational and Integrative Biology
"The Tiny RNA Pathways"
April 23, 2009
2008
James E. Rothman, Ph.D.
Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 2013
Clyde and Helen Wu Professor of Chemical Biology and
Director of Columbia University's Judith P. Sulzberger, MD Genome Center
"Principles of Vesicle Trafficking in the Cell"
April 17, 2008
2007
Harold Varmus, Ph.D.
Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 1989
President and CEO, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
"New Era in Cancer Research"
April 12, 2007