Demystifying Medicine

Speaker Profiles for 2008

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1. January 8, 2008, "HIV/AIDS: The ultimate chameleon"
   
   • John Coffin (NCI)
   • Henry Masur (CC)
     
     
2. January 15, 2008, "Coronary Heart Disease: Detecting and treating a major killer"
   
   • Bob Balaban (NHLBI)
   • Michael Sack (NHLBI)
   • Douglas Rosing (NHLBI)
     
     
3. January 22, 2008, "Cystic diseases and cilia: A new frontier"
   
   • Meral Gunay-Aygun (NHGRI)
   • Carolyn Ott (NICHD)
     
     
4. January 29, 2008, "Diseases from the blood bank: Progress and the future"
   
   • Harvey Klein (CC)
   • Harvey Alter (CC)
     
     
5. February 5, 2008, "Inflammatory bowel diseases: What is the target?"
   
   • Warren Strober (NIDDK)
   • Peter Mannon (NIAID)
     
     
6. February 12, 2008, "Malaria: Big killer and big advances"
   • Thomas Wellems (NIAID)
   • John Robbins (NICHD)
     
     
7. February 19, 2008, "Hunger, appetite, obesity, addiction: The new pandemic"
   • Nora Volkow (NIDA)
   • Monica Skarulis (NIDDK)
     
     
8. February 26, 2008, "Diabetes and autoimmunity: Turning against self"
   • Abner Notkins (NIDCR)
   • Phillip Gorden (NIDDK)
     
     
9. March 4, 2008, "West Nile Virus: A new threat"
   • Amy Agrawal (CC)
   • Philip Murphy (NIAID)
     
     
10. March 11, 2008, "Genetic screening: Finding Mendelian disease genes"
    • Les Biesecker (NHGRI)
    • Julie Sapp (NHGRI)
      
      
11. March 18, 2008, "Neurologic diseases in the genomic era"
    • Andrew Singleton (NIA)
    • Katrina Gwinn (NINDS)
      
      
12. March 25, 2008, "Cystic fibrosis: A common inheritable disease with many unknowns"
    • Francis Collins (NHGRI)
    • Sharon Milgram (OD)
      
      
13. April 1, 2008, "Lysosomal diseases: Patients and problems"
    • William Gahl (NHGRI)
    • Marjan Huizing (NHGRI)
    • Amanda Helip-Wooley (NHGRI)
    • Wendy Westbroek (NHGRI)
      
      
14. April 8, 2008, "Gaucher’s disease: Treating a genetic disease"
    • Ellen Sidransky (NHGRI)
    • Chris Austin (NHGRI)
      
      
15. April 15, 2008, "Traumatic brain injury: Mechanisms, treatment and challenges"
    • Leighton Chan (CC)
    • Walter Koroshetz (NINDS)
    • Charles C. Engel (DoD)
    • Michael S. Jaffee (USUHS)
      
      
16. April 22, 2008, "Brain cancer: Problems and progress"
    • Howard Fine (NCI)
      
      
17. April 29, 2008, "Liver cancer: A global problem. Who gets THE liver transplant?"
    • Marc Ghany (NIDDK)
    • Alan Wertheimer (CC)
    • Win Arias (NIDDK)
      
      
18. May 6, 2008, "Lung cancer: Clinical progress and the cancer stem cell paradigm"
    • Guiseppe Giaccone (NCI)
    • Lyuba Varticovski (NCI)
      
      
19. May 13, 2008, "Finale: What does the future hold for PhD postdoctoral fellows?"
    • Michael Gottesman (OD)
    • Alan Krensky (OD)
    • Robert Balaban (NHLBI)
    • Gisela Storz (NICHD)
    • Win Arias (NICHD)
      
      

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