Earl P. Benditt Endowed Lectureship

A special lecture dedicated to the memory and scientific legacy of Earl P. Benditt, M.D., Professor and Chair, 1957-1981

No upcoming seminars are currently posted.


Past Earl P. Benditt Endowed Lectureships

How to Make a Heart: The Islet Heart Progenitor Story and 'Pregenerative' Medicine

Kenneth R. Chien, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, MGH Cardiovascular Research Center
Department of Cell Biology and Harvard Stem Cell Institute
Harvard University Medical School

Wednesday, June 23, 2010 - 4:30 PM
Health Sciences Center, Turner Auditorium, Rm. D-209

Faculty Sponsor: Chuck Murry

Inights Into Vascular Diseases and Their Treatments from Human Genetics

Richard Lifton, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Department of Genetics
Yale University

Wednesday, January 7, 2009 - 5:00 PM
Health Sciences Center, Turner Auditorium, Rm. D-209

Faculty Sponsor: Stephen Schwartz
Please visit the Benditt Lectureship website for more information about Dr. Lifton: http://pathology.washington.edu/PathNews/news/?id=222

Where Do the Cells of the Atherosclerotic Plaque Come from and Where Do They Go?

Gwen Randolph, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Gene and Cell Medicine
Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Friday, November 30, 2007 - 4:00 PM
Health Sciences Center, Turner Auditorium, Room D-209

Faculty Sponsor: Stephen Schwartz

VEGF: From Bench to Bedside

Napoleone Ferrara
Genentech Fellow
Molecular Oncology
Genentech, Inc

Wednesday, February 22, 2006 - 4:00 PM
Health Sciences Center, Room T-739

Faculty Sponsor: Stephen Schwartz

Dr. Ferrara is the discoverer of VEGF, the critical molecule behind tumor angiogenesis and the basis for recent therapeutic advances in treatment of cancer.

The lecture is free and open to the public.

Modeling Neurodegeneration in Yeast

Susan Lindquist, Ph.D.
Member, Whtitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Professor, Department of Biology
Massachusetts Institutute of Technology

Wednesday, April 6, 2005 - 4:00 PM
Health Sciences Center, Hogness Auditorium

Faculty Sponsor: Nelson Fausto

Greater Potency of Adult Stem Cells: Possible Mechanisms and Uses

Catherine Verfaillie



Director
Stem Cell Institute
University of Minnesota

Tuesday, May 4, 2004 - 10:00 AM
Health Sciences Center, Hogness Auditorium

Faculty Sponsor: Charles Murry

Molecular Medicine in the Post Genome Era

Dr. Richard Klausner

Executive Director, Global Health Program
Gates Foundation

Wednesday, January 15, 2003 - 12:00 PM
Hogness Auditorium,

Genetics in Everyday Life

David R. Cox, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Associate Chair
Department of Genetics
Stanford University

Thursday, January 10, 2002 - 4:30 PM
Health Sciences Center, T-739