The annual Edwin G. Krebs Lecture in Molecular Pharmacology and the annual Charles W. Bodemer Lecture in Medical History and Ethics will both be held Tuesday, May 11.
The Krebs Lecture will feature Richard Timothy Hunt, who shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Paul Nurse and Lee Hartwell of the UW and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
Hunt is a principal scientist at Cancer Research UK, Clare Hall Laboratories near London. He studies the regulation of protein synthesis, as well as control of the cell cycle and cell division by peptide regulators.
Hunt's talk, Control of the Cell Cycle, will be held at 3:30 p.m., May 11, Room T-625 of the UW Health Sciences Center. The lecture is free and open to everyone.
Kenneth Ludmerer, professor of medicine at Washington University in St. Louis, will give this year's Bodemer Lecture, presented by the Department of Medical History and Ethics. Ludmerer's presentation, The Coming of the Second Revolution in Medical Education, is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. in Hogness Auditorium, Room A-420 of the UW Health Sciences Center.
The lecture is free and open to everyone. No registration is required. For more information, contact Marilyn Barnard at 206-616-1864 or mbarnard@u.washington.edu or visit http://depts.washington.edu/mhedept/conedu/conedu_index.html