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