ATTN Students: Lasker Lecture on April 12, 2017

Duke Health will host the prestigious Annual Lasker Lecture on April 12, 2017, from 1 to 2 p.m. in the Learning Hall at the Trent Semans Center. Dr. William Kaelin, Jr., who is the 2016 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award recipient, will be the lecturer. The title of his presentation is "The VHL Tumor Suppressor Protein: Insights in Oxygen Sensing, Cancer Metabolism, and Drugging the Undruggable." Dr. Kaelin is a graduate of Duke University and the Duke University School of Medicine. His lab at Harvard University’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute focuses on understanding how mutations affecting tumor-suppressor genes cause cancer.

Lasker Lectures help to advance public dialogue about the ways in which scientific questions are pursued, boost public understanding of the importance of biomedical research and generate excitement about the challenges and promises of biomedical science.