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Meet
the Investigators 2008 Discussion Series
The first year MD-PhD students have organized the ‘Meet the Investigator’ seminar
series for the spring term to engage in candid conversations with medical
scientists about the broad range of joys and challenges in their careers.
The lunchtime seminars are open to MD-PhD students only. Sign up is
on eCommons.
Wayne
Lencer, MD
28 February 2008
Dr. Lencer is Chief of Gastroenterology
and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Children’s Hospital
Boston. The Lencer laboratory studies the cell and molecular biology
of vesicular transport in polarized epithelial cells and regulation
of ion transport in the intestine.
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Len
Zon, MD
13 March 2008
Dr. Zon is the Grousbeck Professor
of Pediatrics at Children’s Hospital Boston as well as a Howard
Hughes Medical Institute investigator. His laboratory focuses on the
developmental biology of hematopoiesis and cancer, and has spearheaded
the use of zebrafish as a model organism.
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Sarah
Fortune, MD
27 March 2008
Dr. Fortune is Assistant Professor
of Immunology and Infectious Disease at the Harvard School of Public
Health. Her research focuses on the molecular pathogenesis of mycobacterium
tuberculosis. She recently received the NIH New Innovator Award.
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Bob
Brown, MD, DPhil
10 April 2008
Dr. Brown is Professor of Neurology
at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Day Neuromuscular Laboratory
and Muscular Dystrophy Association clinic at the Massachusetts General
Hospital. His research focus is on neuromuscular diseases such as
ALS.
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Anthony
D’Amico, MD, PhD
15 May 2008
Dr. D’Amico is Professor of Radiation Oncology at Harvard Medical
School and Chair of the Division of Genitourinary Radiation Oncology
at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. His research focus is in prostate
cancer. He also serves as the Master of Holmes Society at HMS.
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Judy
Lieberman, MD, PhD
22 May 2008
Dr. Lieberman is Professor of Pediatrics
and Director of the Division of AIDS at Harvard Medical School. Her
laboratory is interested in Cytotoxic T Cell immunology and RNA interference.
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Updated:
March 11, 2008
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