2nd Annual Albert Aguayo Lecture
Nobel Laureate Dr. Robert Horvitz will deliver the 2nd Annual
Albert Aguayo Lecture, "Programmed Cell Death in Development and
Disease". This lecture honors Dr. Albert Aguayo, founder and former
Director of the Centre for the Research in Neuroscience at 9I制作厂免费
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Dr. Horvitz is the David Koch Professor in the Department of
Biology at MIT and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.
Horvitz is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and shared
the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering and
characterizing the genes controlling cell death in the nematode
worm, Caenorhabditis elegans. Dr. Horvitz is a Fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and his many honors include
the Gairdner Foundation International Award, the Alfred P. Sloan,
Jr. Prize, and the Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished
Achievement in Neuroscience.
