# 2026 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize Symposium #### calendar\_today Date and Time **October 1, 2026** 01:30PM - 05:30PM EDT #### pin\_drop Location **Veritas Science Center Joseph B. Martin Conference Center** [77 Avenue Louis Pasteur Boston, MA 02115 United States ]() [ Register here arrow\_circle\_right ](https://hms.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_a5yrOxn8kzFOCyy?utm_source=OCERMarketingCloud&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2026+-+Warren+Alpert+-+Save+the+Date&utm_content=You+may+RSVP+here.) ![2026 Warren Alpert](/sites/g/files/omnuum4051/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/2026-07/273f4c04-948d-4011-8441-47e290b1f6b1.jpg?itok=g_CIKJia) ### **From Discovery to Therapy: Gene-Based Treatments for Sickle Cell Disease and Beta-Thalassemia** The Warren Alpert Foundation and Harvard Medical School invite you to our annual scientific symposium, recognizing five scientists for enabling curative genetic therapies for two major hemoglobin disorders: sickle cell disease and beta-thalassemia. In rigorous studies spanning two decades, they discovered how to reactivate the production of fetal hemoglobin in adults and optimized hematopoietic cell reconstitution procedures, thereby bringing molecularly based therapies to patients. **Thursday, October 1** 1:30 p.m. I Symposium Veritas Science Center Joseph B. Martin Conference Center 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur Boston, Massachusetts [**You may RSVP here.**](https://click.u.hms.harvard.edu/?qs=ABB7InYiOjEsImQiOjQ5NTF9AAYAAAAAA3rzZqhh5f9EaOh1LE6XpyDf8NZCUZheNPprG260vgIVBswqLeDHHSKZwN4ZYIhFCgZbHF-Hiq-AKOl57rIEweTyL2XwVGDqOiVxfwiP) **IN HONOR OF** **Daniel E. Bauer, MD, PhD** Donald S. Fredrickson, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School Director of the Gene Therapy Program, Boston Children’s Hospital **Stuart H. Orkin, MD ’72** David G. Nathan Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute **Vijay G. Sankaran, PhD ’09, MD ’10** Jan Ellen Paradise, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute **Swee Lay Thein, MD** Senior Investigator and Chief of the Sickle Cell Branch of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health **John Tisdale, MD** Senior Investigator and Chief of the Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics Branch of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health **FEATURING** **Jennifer Doudna, PhD ’89** Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Founder, Innovative Genomics Institute **MODERATED BY** **Edward Benz Jr., MD ’73** President and CEO Emeritus, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Richard and Susan Smith Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Professor of Pediatrics, and Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School For more information, please contact Caitlin Craig at [hms\_events@hms.harvard.edu](mailto:hms_events@hms.harvard.edu?subject=). Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#) Save: [ Add to calendar calendar\_today ](https://postdoc.hms.harvard.edu/node/1886626/event-feed.ics) Copy link link