Dean's Distinguished Lecture Series

Below is the schedule of events hosted by the Office of the Dean as part of the Distinguished Lecture Series. Lectures are recorded and available to individuals with a WCM CWID on the WCM Central Intranet site. If you have any questions about these events, please contact our office at (212) 746-5900.

• February 9, 2018: Yousin Suh, Ph.D. - "Targeting Healthspan: Functional Genetic Variation in Human Aging and Longevity"
• October 23, 2017: Sir Michael L. Rutter CBE, FRS, FRCP, FRCPsych, FMedSci - "How Have Longitudinal Study Findings Changed Our Thinking About Families and Children Over the Last 50 Years?"
• September 7, 2017: Li Gan, Ph.D. - "Proteostasis and Innate Immunity: Converging Pathways in Neurodegeneration"
• August 28, 2017: Leonard Petrucelli, Ph.D. - "Mechanistic and Therapeutic Insight in FTD/ALS"
• July 20, 2017: Jaime Grutzendler, M.D. - "Uncovering the Cellular Basis of Dementia One Image at a Time"
• July 6, 2017: Aaron Gitler, Ph.D. - "Expanding Mechanisms and Therapeutic Targets for Neurodegenerative Diseases"
• March 21, 2017: Clay F. Semenkovich, M.D. - "Lipid Signaling in Diabetes"
• February 15, 2017: Beth C. Levine, M.D. - "Autophagy: A Cornerstone of Metabolic Health"
• September 6, 2016: Jeremy Nathans, M.D., Ph.D. - "Frizzled Signaling in Development and Disease"
• June 29, 2016: Calvin Kuo, M.D., Ph.D. - "Niches for Normal and Malignant Gastrointestinal Stem Cells"
• June 9, 2016: Karen Vousden, CBE, FRS, FRSE - "Serine Metabolism and Cancer"
• May 31, 2016: David M. Sabatini, M.D., Ph.D. - "Regulation of Growth by mTOR"
• March 31, 2016: Virginia Pascual, M.D. - "A Systems Immunology Approach to Rheumatic Diseases"
• March 22, 2016: William A. Weiss, M.D., Ph.D. - "Stem Cell Models for Pediatric Cancers"
• February 3, 2016: Karina Davidson, Ph.D. - "Truly Individualized Medicine: Bringing Useful Health Care Evidence Back to the Patient"
• November 20, 2015: Andre Nussenzweig, Ph.D. - "Mechanisms That Maintain Genome Stability"
• October 20, 2015: Philip L. De Jager, M.D., Ph.D. - "Translating Gene Discovery Efforts Into Primary Prevention and Drug Discovery: Multiple Sclerosis and Alzheimer's Disease"
• October 16, 2015: Geoffrey S. Pitt, M.D., Ph.D. - "Ion Channel (Dys)function and Disease"
• September 3, 2015: Charles G. Drake, M.D., Ph.D. - "Immunotherapy for Prostate Cancer - What's Coming?"
• September 2, 2015: Gerald I. Shulman, M.D., Ph.D. - "Cellular Mechanisms of Insulin Resistance: Implications for Obesity, Type 2 Diabetes and the Metabolic Syndrome"
• April 20, 2015: Georg Stingl, M.D. - "The Skin Immune System - Innate and Adaptive Circuits"
• April 9, 2015: John M. Greally, M.B., B.Ch., Ph.D. - "Emerging Opportunities in Clinical Genomics"
• April 8, 2015: Charles S. Fuchs, M.D., M.P.H. - "Leveraging Cohort Studies to Inform Colorectal Cancer Treatment, Prevention and Biology"
• March 19, 2015: Soumitra Dutta, Ph.D. - "Big Data, Social Media and Technological Innovation"
• March 17, 2015: Glenn Fishman, M.D. - "Regulation of the Heartbeat - From Development to Disease"
• March 12, 2015: Scott Sternson, Ph.D. - "The Neurobiology of Hunger"
• February 17, 2015: Luigi D. Notarangelo, M.D. - "Insights into Mechanisms of Phenotypic Heterogeneity of RAG Deficiency"
• February 13, 2015: Elazer R. Edelman, M.D., Ph.D. - "Endothelial Cell Control of Vascular and Cancer Biology"
• February 10, 2015: David Eidelberg, M.D. - "Metabolic Brain Networks as Disease Biomarkers"
• February 4, 2015: Carlos Arteaga, M.D. - "Neoadjuvant Trials in Breast Cancer: Role in Clinical Development and Discovery of Mechanisms of Drug Resistance"
• January 16, 2015: Stuart A. Lipton, M.D., Ph.D. - "Protein S-Nitrosylation, Redox Stress and NMDA Receptors in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Diseases"
• December 12, 2014: Vali A. Papadimitrakopoulou, M.D. - "Precision Medicine for NSCLC in the Era of Genomic Profiling and Immunotherapy"
• November 6, 2014: Michael G. Rosenfeld, M.D. - "Deconstructing the Enhancer Codes of Development, Homeostasis and Disease"
• October 29, 2014: William Dobyns, M.D. - "Big Brains and Human Developmental Consequences of Altered Regulation in the PI3K-AKT Pathway"
• July 23, 2014: Robert Vonderheide, Ph.D. - "Inflammatory Networks and Immune Surveillance of Cancer"
• July 21, 2014: Michael J. Lenardo, M.D. - "Understanding Immune Regulation Through Human Genomics"
• July 16, 2014: Roy S. Herbst, M.D., Ph.D. - "Personalized Therapy for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer"
• June 20, 2014: Christopher K Glass, M.D., Ph.D. - "Genomics and Lipidomics of Macrophage Activation"
• June 2, 2014: William T. Pu , M.D. - "Morbidity and Mortality in Sleep Apnea Syndrome"
• April 16, 2014: Pietro De Camilli, M.D. - "Lipid Signaling in the Control of Membrane Dynamics and Interactions"
• April 8, 2014: Philipp E. Scherer, Ph.D. - "Diabetes, Obesity and the Central Role of the Adipocyte in Maintaining Systemic Homeostasis"
• April 3, 2014: Christopher B. Newgard, PhD - "Metabolomics reveals cardiometabolic disease mechanisms"
• April 2, 2014: Toren Finkel, M.D., Ph.D. - "Oxidants, Aging and Cardiovascular Disease"
• March 21, 2014: Silvia C. Formenti, M.D. - "Combing Immunotherapy and Radiation Therapy: the Next Frontier"
• March 11, 2014: Barbara B. Kahn, M.D. - "Novel Mechanisms by which Adipose Cells Regulate Systemic Insulin Sensitivity and Diabetes Risk"
• February 4, 2014: Mitchell A. Lazar, M.D., Ph.D. - "Diabetes and Obesity: When Altruism Fail"
• January 27, 2014: Peretz Lavie, Ph.D. - "Morbidity and Mortality in Sleep Apnea Syndrome"
• January 17, 2014: Junichi Sadoshima M.D., Ph.D. - "Autophagy is a Master Regulator of Protein and Organelle Function in the Heart"
• January 15, 2014: David M. Weinstock, M.D. - "New Strategies To Cure Hematologic Malignancies"
• January 7, 2014: Jeannie T. Lee, M.D., Ph.D. - "X-Inactivation as a Model for Epigenetic Regulation by Long Noncoding RNA"
• December 20, 2013: Andrew R. Marks, M.D. - "Leaky Intracellular Calcium Release Channels"
• December 4, 2013: Laurie H. Glimcher, M.D. - "State of the Medical College Address"
• November 25, 2013: Bruce Spiegelman, Ph.D - "Brown and Beige Fat: Basic Biology and Novel Therapeutics"
• November 5, 2013: Dr. Mark L. Kahn - "Inflammation and Invasion in Cardiovascular and Cancer Biology"
• October 24, 2013: Dr. Dean Y. Li - "New Insights Into Cardiovascular Biology and Disease from Lymphatic Vessels"
• October 21, 2013: Dr. David Artis - "Immune Regulation at Barrier Surfaces"
• October 1, 2013: Dr. Douglas T. Fearon - "Enabling Immune Surveillance of Murine Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma: A Therapeutic Proposal"
• September 27, 2013: Dr. Charles N. Serhan - "Resolvins and Novel Lipid Mediators in Resolution of Inflammation and Infection"
• September 25, 2013: Dr. Dan R. Littman - "Shaping of Host Immunity by the Microbiota in Health and Disease"
• September 6, 2013: Dr. Vijay Kuchroo - "Transcriptional Network Controlling Development of Tregs and Th17 Cells"
• July 19, 2013: Dr. John Blenis - "mTOR, Metabolism and Cell Growth"
• July 17, 2013: Dr. Roger S. Lo - "How Melanoma Resists BRAF Inhibition and Therapeutic Implications"
• June 20, 2013: Domenico Accili, M.D. - "The New Biology of Diabetes"
• June 14, 2013: Dr. Giuseppe Giaccone - "Targets in Thoracic Malignancies"
• May 10, 2013: John Mattick, AO FAA - "The Central Role of RNA in Human Development"
• April 26, 2013: Dr. Mark Gerstein - "Human Genome Analysis"
• April 24, 2013: Iannis Aifantis, Ph.D. - "Regulation of Protein Half-Life and Its Impact on Stem Cell Self-Renewal and Transformation"
• April 17, 2013: David Blumenthal, M.D., MPP - "Confronting the Costs of Health Care"
• April 11, 2013: Charles M. Rudin, M.D., Ph.D. - "Bringing Hedgehog Targeted Therapy to the Clinic"
• April 10, 2013: Gary Koretzky, M.D., Ph.D. - "Insights into Hematopoietic Cell Development and Function through Targeted Mutation of an Adapter Protein"
• April 1, 2013: John Crispino, Ph.D. - "Biology and Novel Therapeutics for Primary Myelofibrosis"
• March 25, 2013: Mukesh K. Jain, M.D., FAHA - "Kruppels-Essential Regulators of Cardiometabolic Function"
• March 22, 2013: James K. Min, M.D., FACC - "The Vulnerable Patient: Novel Technologies for Morphologic and Physiologic Characterization of High Risk Coronary Atherosclerosis"
• February 6, 2013: Daniel J. Rader, M.D. - "From Human Genetics to Novel Therapeutics: Translational Medicine in Lipids and Atherosclerosis"
• February, 4, 2013: David A. Asch, M.D. - "What Business are we In? Reflections on the Outcomes of Medicine and Medical Education"
• January, 16, 2013: Alan D. D'Andrea, M.D. - "Hereditary Chromosome Instability and Cancer
• December 12, 2012: Matthias H. Tschöp, M.D. - "Targeting Gut-Brain Communication for the Treatment of Diabetes and Obesity"
• November 19, 2012: Pier Paolo Pandolfi, M.D., Ph.D. - "The Co-Clinical Trial Project: Towards Precision Therapy for Human Cancer "
• October 11, 2012: Jeffrey Engelman, M.D., Ph.D. - "Targeted Cancer Therapies: Response and Resistance"
• August 28, 2012: Howard Chang, M.D., Ph.D. - "Genome Regulation by Long Noncoding RNAs"
• July 27, 2012: Joseph Wu, M.D., Ph.D. - "iPSCs for Cardiac Disease Modeling, Drug Screening, and Cell Therapy"
• July 16, 2012: Napoleone Ferrara, M.D. - "Basic and Translational Aspects of Angiogenesis"
• July 9, 2012: Richard Lee, M.D. - "Cardiac Regeneration"