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X-WR-CALNAME:Racker Lecture: Dr. Richard Lifton "From Genes and Genomes to 
 Biology and Health"
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DESCRIPTION:Dr. Richard P. Lifton is the 11th President of The Rockefeller 
 University\, where he is also Carson Family Professor and Head of the Labo
 ratory of Human Genetics and Genomics.  He has pioneered the use of geneti
 cs and genomics to understand fundamental mechanisms underlying human dise
 ases.  He is well-known for his discovery that mutations with large effect
  on human blood pressure act by altering renal salt reabsorption\, discove
 ries that have informed public health efforts and therapeutic strategies u
 sed worldwide to prevent heart attacks and strokes\, and for his developme
 nt of exome sequencing for clinical diagnosis and disease gene discovery. 
  Dr. Lifton graduated from Dartmouth College\, obtained M.D. and Ph.D. deg
 rees from Stanford University and completed training in Internal Medicine 
 at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Prior to Rockefeller\, he was chair of 
 the Department of Genetics and Sterling Professor at Yale University\, whe
 re he founded the Yale Center for Genome Analysis.  He is a member of the 
 National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine\, and ha
 s served on the governing councils of both organizations. He currently ser
 ves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Simons Foundation for Autism R
 esearch\, and has previously served on the Advisory Council to the NIH Dir
 ector\, the Scientific Advisory Boards of the Whitehead Institute and the 
 Broad Institute. He also serves on the Board of Directors of Roche and its
  subsidiary Genentech. He has received numerous awards for his research\, 
 including the 2014 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences\, the 2008 Wiley Pr
 ize\, and the highest scientific awards of the American Heart Association\
 , the American Society of Nephrology\, the Council for High Blood Pressure
  Research\, the International Society for Nephrology and the International
  Society for Hypertension. He has received honorary doctorates from Northw
 estern University\, Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Yale University.
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LOCATION:Kennedy Hall\, Call Alumni Auditorium
SUMMARY:Racker Lecture: Dr. Richard Lifton "From Genes and Genomes to Biolo
 gy and Health"
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 fton_from_genes_and_genomes_to_biology_and_health
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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