New York Blood Center Welcomes Keynote Speaker Nobel Prize Winner Sir Paul Nurse, Ph.D. at Free Lecture Monday May, 21 - 3PM
New York Blood Center Welcomes Keynote Speaker Nobel Prize Winner Sir Paul Nurse, Ph.D, President of Rockefeller University at 29th Annual Alexander Weiner Lecture. The event is open to the general public and medical and scientific professionals, free of charge.
NEW YORK (PRWEB) May 18, 2007 -- This Monday, May 21, 2007 at 3:00 PM, New York Blood Center welcomes Nobel Prize winning cancer researcher Sir Paul Nurse, Ph.D. as keynote speaker at The Alexander S. Wiener Lecture. The event is open to the general public and medical and scientific professionals, free of charge.
Dr. Nurse shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and became president of New York's Rockefeller University in September 2003. He had previously served as chief executive of Cancer Research UK, the largest cancer research organization outside the United States. Dr. Nurse is noted for his discoveries about the molecular machinery that regulates the cell cycle, the process by which a cell copies its genetic material and then divides to form two cells. This will be his topic of his presentation on Monday.
In addition to the Nobel Prize, Dr. Nurse has received many other honors, including the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research and the Royal Society's Wellcome, Royal and Copley medals. A fellow of the Royal Society, he is a founding member of the U.K. Academy of Medical Sciences, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a foreign member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. He was knighted in 1999 and received France's Légion d'Honneur in 2002.
The 29th Alexander S. Weiner Lecture, which commemorates Dr. Weiner's 100 birthday, is sponsored by New York Blood Center's Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute. Dr. Alexander S. Wiener (1907-1976), a lifelong resident of New York City, was recognized internationally for his contributions to science. He was an outstanding leader in the fields of forensic medicine, serology, and immunogenetics. His pioneer work led to discovery of the Rh factor in 1937, along with Dr. Karl Landsteiner, and subsequently to the development of exchange transfusion methods that saved the lives of countless infants with hemolytic disease of the newborn. He received a Lasker Award for his achievement in 1946.
New York Blood Center's Marion E. Reid, Ph.D., Director of Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute's Laboratory of Immunohematology and Immunochemistry since 1991 will present The Man and His Work at The Weiner Lecture prior to the keynote address. Dr. Reid is the 2006 recipient of the International Woman in Transfusion Award. She was selected for this honor by three international transfusion medicine/science peer groups for her lifetime achievement through her extensive range of original research, her more than 250 peer-reviewed articles and her numerous international lectures to audiences ranging from peers to elementary school children.
What:
29th Annual Weiner Lecture
Nobel Prize Winner, Ph.D., Controlling the Cell Cycle
When:
Monday, May 2, 20071
3:00 P.M. - 5:00 P.M. -- Reception to follow
Where:
New York Blood Center
Murray Sargent Auditorium
310 E. 67th Street
New York, New York 10021
Cost: No Charge
Register online: www.nybloodcenter.org
Directions: To get to New York Blood Center, take the 6 train to 68th Street, walk three blocks east and one block south to 310 East 67th Street (between 1st and 2nd Avenues.)
New York Blood Center (NYBC), one of the nation's largest non-profit, community-based blood centers, has been providing blood, transfusion products and services to patients in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut hospitals since 1964. NYBC is also home to the Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute and the National Cord Blood Program at the Milstein National Cord Blood Center, the world's first and largest public cord blood bank. NYBC provides medical services and programs (Clinical, Transfusion and Hemophilia Services) through our medical professionals and transfusion medicine physicians.
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