Science2005 will feature keynote lectures by four internationally prominent scientists:
Ronald W. Davis, Ph.D., professor of biochemistry and genetics at Stanford University and director of the Stanford Genome Technology Center, will present the 2005 Dickson Prize in Medicine Lecture titled New Genomic Technology for Yeast Applied to Clinical Medicine.
Cynthia Kenyon, Ph.D., American Cancer Society Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco, will present the School of Medicine's 2005 Mellon Lecture titled From Worms to Mammals: The Hormonal Regulation of the Lifespan.
Joan Massagué, Ph.D., chairman of the Cancer Biology and Genetics Program at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, where he holds the Alfred P. Sloan Chair, and professor of cell biology at Cornell University's Weill Graduate School of Medical Sciences, will present the School of Medicine's 2005 Klaus Hofmann Lecture titled The Logic of TGF-ß Signaling.
J. Fraser Stoddart, Ph.D., D.Sc., holds the Fred Kavli Chair in NanoSystems Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles. He will present a Provost Lecture at Science2005 titled Nano Meccano: An Integrated Systems-Oriented Approach to Molecular Electronics.
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