Oliver Gunter, M.D.
The Earl W. Sutherland Jr., M.D., Symposium will be held next Tuesday, May 2, beginning at 1:30 p.m. in 208 Light Hall.
The topic of this year's symposium, presented by the Department of Pharmacology and the Department of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics, is “Molecular Mechanisms of Cell Signaling in Health and Disease.”
Featured speakers will include Natalie Ahn, Ph.D., from the University of Colorado, Boulder; Roger Davis, Ph.D., from the University of Massachusetts; Jack Dixon, Ph.D., from the University of California, San Diego; and Kevan Shokat, Ph.D., from the University of California, San Francisco.
The symposium honors the late Sutherland, professor of Physiology at Vanderbilt from 1963-1973 and winner of the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries related to cellular signaling and hormone action.