Discovery Lecture Series

December 3, 2015

Vanderbilt Prize winner Lindquist reviews research

What do the lowly yeast and human stem cells have in common?

By Bill Snyder
November 12, 2015

Vanderbilt Prize winner Lindquist set for Discovery Lecture

Susan Lindquist, Ph.D., recipient of the 2014 Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science, will deliver her Vanderbilt Prize Lecture on Thursday, Nov. 19.

By Bill Snyder
October 29, 2015

Health sciences, technology expert Edelman set for Discovery Lecture

Elazer Edelman, M.D., Ph.D., a pioneer in the application of engineering and physical sciences to understand fundamental biological processes and the mechanisms of disease, will deliver the next Flexner Discovery Lecture on Thursday, Nov. 5.

By Bill Snyder
October 15, 2015

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Ingeborg Hochmair, Ph.D., co-creator of the world’s first microelectronic multi-channel cochlear implant, discussed her pioneering work and future challenges for engineering and research during her recent Flexner Discovery Lecture.

By VUMC News and Communications
October 1, 2015

Hochmair set for next Discovery Lecture

The co-creator of the world’s first microelectronic multi-channel cochlear implant — a device that provides sound signals to the brain in deaf individuals — will deliver the next Flexner Discovery Lecture.

By Leigh MacMillan
October 1, 2015

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Vanderbilt’s Thomas Wang, M.D., left, Nancy Brown, M.D., and David Bader, Ph.D., explored the human determinants of cardiovascular disease and treatment at last week’s Flexner Discovery Lecture.

By VUMC News and Communications
September 17, 2015

Discovery Lecture explores health care cost controls

“There’s no magic bullet” to control rising health care costs in the United States, health law expert Timothy Jost, J.D., said during last week’s Flexner Discovery Lecture.
By Leigh MacMillan
September 17, 2015

Vanderbilt researchers to discuss heart disease, treatment at lecture

Three Vanderbilt University researchers on the cutting edge of discovery will discuss the “human determinants of cardiovascular disease and treatment” during the next Flexner Discovery Lecture on Sept. 24.
By Bill Snyder
September 3, 2015

Jost set for Sept. 10 Discovery Lecture

The Flexner Discovery Lecture Series kicks off this fall with a discussion of health care cost control. Timothy Jost, J.D., emeritus professor at the Washington and Lee University School of Law, will speak on Thursday, Sept. 10.
By Leigh MacMillan
June 4, 2015

NIH director’s Discovery Lecture covers biomedical research landscape

Last week in Langford Auditorium, Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D., director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), delivered what he referred to as a “romp through an awful lot of the landscape of biomedical research.”
By Paul Govern
May 21, 2015

NIH director set for Discovery Lecture

National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D., will deliver a special Discovery Lecture at Vanderbilt University Medical Center next Thursday, May 28.
By Bill Snyder
May 14, 2015

Discovery Lecture to feature panel

Three Vanderbilt University scientists will describe “gene-environment interactions in cancer etiology and prevention” at 4 p.m. Thursday, May 21, in 208 Light Hall.
By Bill Snyder
May 7, 2015

Photo: Learning expert speaks

By Doug Campbell