MSTP - Medical Scientist Training Program

The UCLA Medical Scientist Training Program

Distinguished Lecturers

November 2, 2007
James Heath, Ph.D.
Elizabeth W. Gilloon Professor, Professor of Chemistry Director, NanoSystems Biology Cancer Center California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
"Making in vitro diagnostics cheap: a technology approach derived from Systems Biology analysis of human disease"
Leroy Hood, M.D., Ph.D.
President and Director, Institute of Systems Biology, Seattle, WA "Systems Biology and Systems Medicine"

September 22, 2006
George Daley, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School
"Stem Cells in Disease and Development"
David Baltimore, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology, California Institute of Technology "Engineering the Immune System"

September 9, 2005
Cornelia Bargmann, Ph.D.
Torsten N. Wiesel Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Neural Circuits and Behavior, Rockefeller University
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
"Exploring The Genetics of Natural Behavior in C. Elegans"
Richard Axel, Ph.D.
University Professor, Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and Pathology, Columbia University-Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute "The Molecular Biology of Smell"

April 13, 2005
Carlo Montemagno, Ph.D.
Chairman of Academic Affairs, Biomedical Engineering
Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UCLA
"Restorative Health Care Thru Synthetic Biology"

September 10, 2004
Denis Burton, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Immunology
Scripps Research Institute
"Neutralizing Antibodies and HIV Vaccine Design"

February 9, 2004
Elaine Fuchs, Ph.D.
Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Laboratory Head of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development
The Rockefeller University
"Beauty is Skin Deep: Stem Cells and Their Lineages in the Skin"

May 1, 2002
Pietro de Camilli, M.D.
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Professor of Cell Biology
Yale University School of Medicine
"Molecular Mechanisms in Synaptic Vesicle Endocytosis"

April 11, 2001
Owen N. Witte, M.D.
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Professor, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics
President's Chair in Developmental Immunology
University of California, Los Angeles
"The Ups and Downs of Lymphocyte Growth Control"

April 12, 2000
Gerald R. Crabtree, M.D.
Professor of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
"Generic Signals and Specific Biologic Outcomes: Signaling through Ca2+, Calcineurin and NF-AT"

April 13, 1999
Shirley M. Tilghman, Ph.D.
Howard A. Prior Professor of the Life Sciences, Princeton University
Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Chair, The Council on Science and Technology
Princeton University
"Genomic Imprinting: Mechanism and Function"

October 21, 1998
Janet D. Rowley, M.D., D.Sc.
Blum-Riese Distinguished Service Professor
Department of Medicine
Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology
University of Chicago
"Chromosome Translocations: Dangerous Liaisons"

April 3, 1997
Stanley Falkow, Ph.D.
Professor of Microbiology and Medicine
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Stanford University School of Medicine
"New Approaches to Study Virulence Determinants of Pathogenic Bacteria"

March 29, 1996
James M. Wilson, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Chairman, Molecular and Cellular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
Professor, The Wistar Institute
Director, Institute for Human Gene Therapy, University of Pennsylvania
"Potential and Challenges of Human Gene Therapy"

February 16, 1996
Eric R. Kandel, M.D.
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
Senior Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
University Professor, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University
"Genes, Synapses and Long-Term Memory"

April 5, 1995
Philip Leder, M.D.
John Emory Andrus Professor of Genetics
Chairman, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
Senior Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
"Counting Toes: The Role of Formins in Embryonic Pattern Formation"

March 22, 1994
David M. Livingston, M.D.
Director and Physician-in-Chief, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Emil Frei Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Chief, Division of Neoplastic Disease Mechanisms
"Functional Analysis of the RB Gene Product and Related Proteins"

May 19, 1993
David Eisenberg, D. Phil.
Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA
"Two Molecular Machines; Glutamine Synthetase and Diphtheria Toxin: What Structure Tells about Function"

April 8, 1992
Roger Perlmutter, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Immunology, Medicine and Biochemistry
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
University of Washington
"Molecular Dissection of Signaling Pathways in Lymphocytes"

April 10, 1991
Raymond L. White, Ph.D.
Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
"Identification of a Gene for Neurofibromatosis Type I"

April 4, 1990
Eric M. Shooter, Ph.D.
Professor of Neurobiology
Stanford University School of Medicine
"Nerve Growth Factor from Molecules to Memory"

January 12, 1989
Stuart Orkin, M.D.
Leland Fikes Professor of Pediatric Medicine
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA
"Molecular Approaches to Inherited Hematologic Disorders"

October 29, 1987
Lutz Birnbaumer, Ph.D.
Professor of Cell Biology
Baylor University
"The Role of G Proteins in the Regulation of Ion Transport"