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.
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.
LOCATION:Veritas Science Center Joseph B. Martin Conference Center STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20261001T173000Z DTEND:20261001T213000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR