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The Robert F. Furchgott Visiting Professor

2019

Edvard Moser, Ph.D.

Edvard Moser, Ph.D.

Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine (2014)
The Robert F. Furchgott Visiting Professor

Professor of Neuroscience and Director,
Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, 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.

Louis Ignarro, Ph.D.

Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine (1998)

Professor Emeritus,
Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology,
UCLA School of Medicine
 
“Road to Stockholm – A Nobel Mission”
Friday, October 19, 2018


2017

Eric R. Kandel, M.D.

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.

Jennifer Doudna, Ph.D.

Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (2020)
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.

Robert 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

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F.-Ulrich Hartl, M.D.

Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (2011)

Director,
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany

"Molecular chaperones - Cellular machinery of protein folding and quality control"
April 23, 2014


2013

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

James E. Rothman, Ph.D.

Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine (2013)

Clyde and Helen Wu Professor of Chemical Biology

Director,
Judith P. Sulzberger, MD Genome Center,
Columbia University

"Principles of Vesicle Trafficking in the Cell"
April 17, 2008


2007

Harold Varmus, Ph.D.

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