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Speaker's Biography:
Lee Hartwell
Nobel Laureate, Medicine, 2001; President and Director, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle
Lee Hartwell is a Nobel laureate, President and Director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Professor of genome sciences and adjunct professor of medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine and American Cancer Society Research Professor of Genetics. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2001 for his pioneering work in yeast genetics. The genes that control cell division in yeast subsequently have been found also to control cell division in humans and often to be the site of alteration in cancer. Hartwell also turned to yeast to investigate the basis for accurate cellular reproduction and discovered a new class of gene: “checkpoint” genes. These genes notice when mistakes have been made during cellular reproduction and halt cell division so that repair can take place. Hartwell joined the University of Washington faculty in 1968 and has been a professor of genome sciences there since 1973. He is the recipient of many national and international scientific awards, including the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award, the Gairdner Foundation International Award and the Alfred P. Sloan Award in cancer research. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Hartwell earned his Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Panels:
Dinner panel - The Long View: Imagining the Future »
An Interactive Discussion of Issues Affecting Faster Cures
(Private event - by invitation only) »
Accelerating Medical Solutions »
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