The Robert F. Furchgott Visiting Professor
2019
Edvard Moser, Ph.D.
Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine (2014)
The Robert F. Furchgott Visiting Professor
Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim
“Neural codes for space and time in the entorhinal cortex”
April 19, 2019
2018
Louis Ignarro, Ph.D.
Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine (1998)
Professor Emeritus,
Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology,
UCLA School of Medicine
“Road to Stockholm – A Nobel Mission”
Friday, October 19, 2018
2017
Eric R. Kandel, M.D.
Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine (2000)
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
University Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics,
Columbia University Medical Center
"The Biology of Memory and Age-Related Memory Loss"
September 6, 2017
2016
Jennifer Doudna, Ph.D.
Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (2020)
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology,
University of California, Berkeley
2015 Breakthrough Prize in LIfe Sciences
"Rewriting the Language of Life: Impacts and Challenges of DNA Editing."
November 17, 2016
2015
Robert Lefkowitz, M.D.
Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (2012)
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
James B. Duke Professor of Medicine,
Duke University School of Medicine
"Seven Transmembrane Receptors"
December 8, 2015
2014
F.-Ulrich Hartl, M.D.
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (2011)
Director,
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany
"Molecular chaperones - Cellular machinery of protein folding and quality control"
April 23, 2014
2013
Craig Mello, Ph.D
Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine (2006)
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Distinguished Professor,
University of Massachusetts Medical School
"RNA Memories: Recognition of Self/Non-self RNA in the C-elegans Germline"
May 9, 2013
2012
Jeffrey M. Friedman, M.D., Ph.D.
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (2010)
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Marilyn M. Simpson Professor,
The Rockefeller University
"Leptin and the Biologic Basis of Obesity"
May 14, 2012
2011
Ralph M. Steinman, M.D.
Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine (2011)
Senior Physician and Henry G. Kunkel Professor,
The Rockefeller University
"Vaccines to Mobilize Dendritic Cells"
April 26, 2011
2010
Ferid Murad, M.D., Ph.D.
Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine (1998)
Director Emeritus,
The Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine for the Prevention of Human Diseases,
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
"Discovery of Nitric Oxide and Cyclic Signaling and their Role in Drug Development"
April 15, 2010
2009
Gary Ruvkun, Ph.D.
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (2008)
Professor of Genetics,
Harvard Medical School,
Center for Computational and Integrative Biology
"The Tiny RNA Pathways"
April 23, 2009
2008
James E. Rothman, Ph.D.
Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine (2013)
Clyde and Helen Wu Professor of Chemical Biology
Director,
Judith P. Sulzberger, MD Genome Center,
Columbia University
"Principles of Vesicle Trafficking in the Cell"
April 17, 2008
2007
Harold Varmus, Ph.D.
Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine (1989)
President and CEO,
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
"New Era in Cancer Research"
April 12, 2007