Wang set to deliver Discovery Lecture
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His lecture, “Understanding Cell Death,” will be at 4 p.m. in 208 Light Hall.
Wang, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, studies the pathways and biochemical mechanisms controlling different forms of programmed cell death in mammalian cells.
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This Discovery Lecture is sponsored by the Department of Pharmacology in honor of Allan D. Bass, M.D., who served as chair of Pharmacology from 1953 to 1973.
For a complete schedule of the Discovery Lecture series and archived video of previous lectures, click here.