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Add to Calendar: Add to Calendar 2024-03-06 16:00:00 2024-03-06 17:30:00 Louis A. Bloomfield Memorial Lecture Please click the link to join the webinar: Zoom Passcode: 367331 David R. Liu, PhD Richard Merkin Professor and Director of the Merkin Institute of Transformative Technologies in Healthcare Core Institute Member and Vice-Chair of the Faculty, Broad Institute Director of the Chemical Biology and Therapeutic Sciences Program Thomas Dudley Cabot, Professor of the Natural Sciences, Harvard University Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute David R. Liu, PhD is a leading figure in combining chemistry and evolution to develop new therapies. He is the architect of the novel base and prime editing methods for accurately correcting genetic mutations that cause disease. In addition to devising ways to counteract the unfortunate effects of human evolutionary processes, Dr. Liu has also created a multitude of strategies for using in vitro molecular evolution and DNA-templated organic synthesis to create molecules for application in clinical medicine and beyond. Read Dr. Liu’s bio. The Louis A. Bloomfield Memorial Lecture—one of the oldest and most prestigious endowed lectureships in the CWRU School of Medicine—was first endowed by Kitty Bloomfield on behalf of herself and her son Teddy in 1955 as a "permanent memorial in honor and recognition of Louis A Bloomfield as a father and a husband." Originally the lecture was designated to "provide lectures in Greater Cleveland by distinguished medical scientists and scholars." It has certainly lived up to that charge over the years, with a long history of distinguished speakers, including most recently the Lasker Award winner Jeffrey Friedman, MD, PhD from Rockefeller University in 2022 and the Nobel Prize Award winner Thomas Südhof, MD from Stanford University in 2023. Today, the descendants of Louis and Kitty Bloomfield continue to make their mark on Cleveland with their steadfast support of the arts, education and environmental causes. Online Weatherhead School of Management Weatherhead School of Management UTC public
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Please click the link to join the webinar: Zoom
Passcode: 367331
David R. Liu, PhD
Richard Merkin Professor and Director of the Merkin Institute of Transformative Technologies in Healthcare
Core Institute Member and Vice-Chair of the Faculty, Broad Institute
Director of the Chemical Biology and Therapeutic Sciences Program
Thomas Dudley Cabot, Professor of the Natural Sciences, Harvard University
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
David R. Liu, PhD is a leading figure in combining chemistry and evolution to develop new therapies. He is the architect of the novel base and prime editing methods for accurately correcting genetic mutations that cause disease. In addition to devising ways to counteract the unfortunate effects of human evolutionary processes, Dr. Liu has also created a multitude of strategies for using in vitro molecular evolution and DNA-templated organic synthesis to create molecules for application in clinical medicine and beyond.
The Louis A. Bloomfield Memorial Lecture—one of the oldest and most prestigious endowed lectureships in the CWRU School of Medicine—was first endowed by Kitty Bloomfield on behalf of herself and her son Teddy in 1955 as a "permanent memorial in honor and recognition of Louis A Bloomfield as a father and a husband." Originally the lecture was designated to "provide lectures in Greater Cleveland by distinguished medical scientists and scholars." It has certainly lived up to that charge over the years, with a long history of distinguished speakers, including most recently the Lasker Award winner Jeffrey Friedman, MD, PhD from Rockefeller University in 2022 and the Nobel Prize Award winner Thomas Südhof, MD from Stanford University in 2023. Today, the descendants of Louis and Kitty Bloomfield continue to make their mark on Cleveland with their steadfast support of the arts, education and environmental causes.
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