Discovery Lecture Series

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
April 30, 2015

Stem cells, Wnt signaling explored at Discovery lecture

Our tissues are in a constant state of flux — cells are lost and cells are generated, with local signals and stem cells maintaining the balance, said Roel Nusse, Ph.D., during last week’s Flexner Discovery Lecture.
By Leigh MacMillan
April 23, 2015

Stanford’s Knudsen set for Discovery Lecture

Stanford University neurobiologist Eric Knudsen, Ph.D., well known for his studies of learning and attention in birds, will deliver the next Flexner Discovery Lecture at 4 p.m. April 30 in 208 Light Hall.
By Bill Snyder
April 16, 2015

Tissue regulation expert Nusse set for next Discovery Lecture

Roel Nusse, Ph.D., an expert in the regulation of tissue growth and development by Wnt signaling pathways, will deliver the next Flexner Discovery Lecture on Thursday, April 23.
By Leigh MacMillan
April 9, 2015

Photo: Metabolic discoveries

Discovery Lecturer Stephen O’Rahilly, M.D., helped establish and now co-directs the Institute of Metabolic Science at the University of Cambridge, England.
By VUMC News and Communications
March 26, 2015

Photo: Cancer discoveries

Louis Staudt, M.D., Ph.D., director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Center for Cancer Genomics and co-chief of the NCI’s Lymphoid Malignancies Branch, spoke about new lymphoma therapies at his recent Flexner Discovery Lecture.
By VUMC News and Communications
March 12, 2015

National Cancer Institute’s Staudt set for Discovery Lecture

Louis Staudt, M.D., Ph.D., a pioneer in gene expression profiling at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), will deliver the next Flexner Discovery Lecture on Thursday, March 19.
By Bill Snyder
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