4th Annual Robert D. Goldman Lecture
When:
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM CT
Where: Robert H Lurie Medical Research Center, Hughes Auditorium, Lurie 1-133, 303 E. Superior, Chicago, IL 60611 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Cell & Developmental Biology Department
(312) 503-7959
Group: Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
Category: Lectures & Meetings
Description:
4th Annual Robert D. Goldman Lecture
Cosponsored by Walter S. And Lucienne Driskill Graduate Program Lectures in Life Sciences and Feinberg School of Medicine Department of Cell & Developmental Biology
"Ovarian cancer heterogeneity and tumor adaptation to chemotherapy"
Joan Brugge, PhD
Professor of Cell Biology
Director of the Ludwig Center
Harvard Medical School, MA
Dr. Brugge is currently Professor of Cell Biology at HMS and co-director of the Ludwig Center at Harvard. A graduate of Northwestern University, she did her graduate work at the Baylor College of Medicine, and then performed her postdoctoral training at the University of Colorado. Dr. Brugge has held full professorships at the SUNY, Stony Brook, and the University of Pennsylvania, where she was also an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. From 1992-1997 Dr. Brugge was a founder and scientific director of the biotechnology company ARIAD. She then joined Harvard in 1997 and was Chair of Cell Biology from 2004-2014.
About the Annual Robert D. Goldman, PhD:
Robert D. Goldman, PhD, is the Stephen Walter Ranson Professor Emeritus of Cell and Developmental Biology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, where he served as chair of the department from 1981-2019. Dr. Goldman earned his doctorate in biology from Princeton University, after which he trained as a postdoctoral fellow at Hammersmith Hospital in London and at the MRC Institute of Virology in Glasgow. He was appointed assistant professor of Biology at Case Western Reserve University in 1969 and moved to Carnegie Mellon University in 1977, prior to joining the faculty at Northwestern.
The annual lecture commemorates the accomplishments of Dr. Goldman and are a celebration of science and innovative discoveries in cell and developmental biology.
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