WVU community invited to learn about Nobel Prize and Lasker Award discoveries
The WVU Health Sciences Office of Research and Graduate Education invites the campus community to a special seminar Thursday, Oct. 24, from 3-4:30 p.m. in Health Sciences Center North room 1905 to learn about this year’s Nobel Prize and Lasker Award discoveries. A Zoom option is available. Register online to attend in person or to receive the Zoom link.
Health Sciences experts working in the fields of the awarded discoveries will provide an overview of each topic as well as entertain any questions:
- Mariette Barbier, Ph.D., associate professor and chair of the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Cell Biology: Lasker Basic Medical (immune and inflammatory responses to foreign DNA)
- Michael Hu, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Cell Biology: Nobel Physics (machine learning)
- Eric Kelley, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Physiology, Pharmacology and Toxicology: Lasker Clinical Medical (obesity therapeutics)
- Ivan Martinez, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Cell Biology: Nobel Physiology and Medicine (micro RNA)
- Aaron Robart, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine: Nobel Chemistry (AI for protein structure)