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April 23, 2026 – Daniel Mucida, Ph.D.
Gut Feelings: Understanding Communication Between the Nervous and Immune Systems

November 18, 2025 – Daniel Kronauer, Ph.D.
The Social Lives of Ants: From Simple Brains to Complex Behavior

October 9, 2025 – Li Zhao, Ph.D.
The Birth of New Genes: Uncovering Nature’s Genetic Innovations

September 16, 2025 – 2025 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize – Maria Jasin, Ph.D.
Maria Jasin, Ph.D.

May 8, 2025 – Dana Orange, M.D., M.Sc.
Inflammation and Pain: Advances in Understanding Arthritis and Other Autoimmune Diseases

April 22, 2025 – Kivanç Birsoy, Ph.D.
How to Starve a Tumor: Understanding the Biology of Metabolism in Physiology and Cancer

December 5, 2024 – Elizabeth Campbell, Ph.D.
At the Forefront of Basic Research: New Strategies to Outsmart Drug-Resistant Microbes

November 20, 2024 – Jeffrey M. Friedman, M.D., Ph.D.
Obesity: Causes and the New Treatments

27th Annual Lecture and Luncheon – Huda Y. Zoghbi, M.D.
From the Clinic to the Bench and Back: Insights into the Genetics of Neurological Disorders

May 1, 2024 – Ali H. Brivanlou, Ph.D. and Janna Levin, Ph.D.
Genesis of Life and the Universe: Time Travel in Developmental Embryology and Cosmology

2024 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize – Svetlana Mojsov, Ph.D.
Svetlana Mojsov, Ph.D.

2024 Spring Morning Lecture – Elizabeth Comen, M.D.
Breast Cancer and Women’s Health: Past, Present, and Future

2023 Fall Morning Lecture – Sofia Axelrod, Ph.D.
Sleep and Beyond: How Basic Research is Leading a Revolution in Circadian Medicine

November 15, 2023 – A. James Hudspeth, M.D., Ph.D.
Pathways to Regeneration: Uncovering New Possibilities in Medicine

2023 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize – Lily Jan, Ph.D. and Eve Marder, Ph.D.
Lily Jan, Ph.D. and Eve Marder, Ph.D.

26th Annual Lecture and Luncheon – Elaine V. Fuchs, Ph.D.
Skin Stem Cells: Coping with Stress, Inflammation, and Cancer

April 27, 2023 – Erich D. Jarvis, Ph.D. and Constantina Theofanopoulou, Ph.D.
Hardwired for Song and Dance: The Neurobiology of Language and Movement

2022 CELEBRATING SCIENCE Benefit – Sohail Tavazoie, M.D., Ph.D.
Taking Aim at Moving Targets: How Promising New Cancer Drugs Block Metastasis

Inaugural Symposium for The Price Family Center for the Social Brain – David Anderson, Ph.D. ’83
Understanding Our Social Brain: How Neurons Encode Innate Social Behaviors

2022 Fall Morning Lecture – Dana Orange, M.D., M.Sc.
New Insights into Rheumatoid Arthritis: How Self-Testing Could Revolutionize the Fight Against Autoimmune Diseases

Kellen Women’s Entrepreneurship Fund Speaker Series – Shruti Naik, Ph.D. and Ekaterina V. Vinogradova, Ph.D.
Candid Conversations: Illuminating the Tenure-track Pathway

2022 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize – Katalin Karikó, Ph.D.
Katalin Karikó

2022 25th Anniversary Lecture and Luncheon – Priya Rajasethupathy, M.D., Ph.D.
Unlocking the Science of Memory

2022 Spring Webinar for Benefactors & Friends – Holly S. Andersen, M.D.
Heart Disease and Stroke in 2022: Research, Treatment, Prevention

A Portrait of Discovery: Five Rockefeller Trailblazers Who Made Scientific History
An Unveiling Celebration

Kellen Women’s Entrepreneurship Fund Speaker Series – Karen Akinsanya, Ph.D., Leigh Baxt, Ph.D., Jeanne Farrell, Ph.D., and Jessica Hopfield, Ph.D. ’91
Pathways in Bioscience: Four Prespectives Beyond the Bench

2021 Women & Science Fall Morning Webinar – Kate Jeffrey, Ph.D.
Why Are Diseases of Affluence and Age Rising?

2021 CELEBRATING SCIENCE Virtual Benefit
Honoring Pfizer and Dr. Albert Bourla, Chairman and CEO

Fall Webinar for Benefactors & Friends – Daniel Mucida, Ph.D.
The Inside Story: How the Microbiome Influences Communication Between Our Nervous and Immune Systems

2021 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize РPamela J. Bj̦rkman, Ph.D.
Pamela J. Björkman, Ph.D.

24th Annual Women & Science Lecture – Vanessa Ruta, Ph.D., ’05
Nature vs. Nurture: Exploring the Building Blocks of Social Behavior

Kellen Women’s Entrepreneurship Fund Speaker Series – Brandy Houser, Ph.D.
Demystifying the Therapeutic Development Ecosystem: A Roadmap of What You Need to Know

Women & Science Spring Morning Webinar – Mandë Holford, Ph.D., ‘03
From Beach to Bench and Beyond: Venom’s Therapeutic Potential for Pain and Cancer

Kellen Women’s Entrepreneurship Fund Speaker Series – Karen Akinsanya, Ph.D
Conversations with Women Leaders in Bioscience

Women & Science Fall Morning Webinar – Natalie L. Rasgon, M.D., Ph.D.
The Brain on Stress: A Pandemic of Depression, Diabetes and Dementia

2020 CELEBRATING SCIENCE Virtual Benefit
The Convergence of Science and Medicine

2020 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize – Joanne Chory, Ph.D.
Joanne Chory, Ph.D.

2020 Fall Webinar – Paul Cohen, M.D., Ph.D.
Burning Question: Can Some Body Fat Keep You Thin?

2020 COVID-19 Webinar for W&S – Marina Caskey, M.D.
Antibody Therapeutics and Pathways to Prevention

2019 Fall Breakfast Program – Xioawei Zhuang, Ph.D.
Visualizing the Invisible: Bio-Imaging at the Nanoscale and Genomic Scale

2019 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize – Xiaowei Zhuang, Ph.D.
Xiaowei Zhuang, Ph.D.

2019 Fall Evening Program – Sidney Strickland, Ph.D.
The Clot Thickens: New Concepts for Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease

2019 CELEBRATING SCIENCE Benefit – Cori Bargmann, Ph.D.
Constant Change: The Ever-Developing Brain

2019 Lecture and Luncheon – Helen H. Hobbs, M.D.
Diet, Genes, and Disease

2019 Spring Evening Program – Winrich Freiwald, Ph.D., Christina Pressl, M.D.
What Makes Us Human?
The Neuroscience of Social Intelligence

2019 Spring Breakfast Program – Alison North, Ph.D.
A Voyage Into an Invisible World
How Modern Microscopes are Transforming Science

2018 CELEBRATING SCIENCE Benefit – Michael Young, Ph.D.
Sleep: A Necessary Luxury

2018 Fall Evening Program – Jue Chen, Ph.D., Roderick MacKinnon, M.D.
Science Goes 3-D
Revealing the Atomic Secrets Inside Our Cells

2018 Fall Breakfast Program – Jennifer A. Doudna, Ph.D.
The CRISPR Revolution
Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution

2018 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize – Jennifer A. Doudna, Ph.D.
Jennifer A. Doudna, Ph.D.

2018 Lecture and Luncheon – Agata Smogorzewska, M.D., Ph.D.
DNA Repair: The Power of Precision Medicine in Treating Cancer

2018 Spring Breakfast Program – Elaine Fuchs, Ph.D., Yejing Ge, Ph.D., Samantha Larsen
Women, Science, and Mentoring: NextGen Leaders and Entrepreneurs

2018 Beatrice Renfield Lecture – Regina Cunningham, Ph.D., R.N., NEA-BC, FAAN

2017 Fall Breakfast Program – Paula A. Johnson, M.D.
Sex and Gender: Critical Components in the Quest for Precision Medicine

2017 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize – JoAnne Stubbe, Ph.D.
JoAnne Stubbe, Ph.D.

2017 Fall Evening Program – Priya Rajasethupathy, M.D., Ph.D.
Memory: New Insights into the Dynamic Brain

2017 Lecture and Luncheon – Leslie Vosshall, Ph.D.

2017 Beatrice Renfield Lecture – Gwenyth R. Wallen, Ph.D., R.N.

2017 Spring Breakfast Program – Nina V. Fedoroff, Ph.D.

Special Evening Program – Richard P. Lifton, M.D., Ph.D., Laura Landro

2016 Fall Breakfast Program – Bonnie L. Bassler, Ph.D.

2016 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize – Bonnie L. Bassler, Ph.D.

2016 Spring Lecture and Luncheon – Cynthia Kenyon, Ph.D.

2016 Beatrice Renfield Lecture – Patricia A. Grady, Ph.D., R.N., FAAN

2015 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize – Helen H. Hobbs, M.D.

2015 Fall Breakfast Program – Helen H. Hobbs, M.D.
Genetic Disorders of Dietary Excess: Getting to the Heart of the Matte

2015 Fall Evening Program – Michael W. Young, Ph.D., Ana C. Krieger, M.D., M.P.H.

2015 Spring Lecture and Luncheon – Mary Jeanne Kreek, M.D., Laura Landro

2015 Beatrice Renfield Lecture – Afaf I. Meleis, Dr. P.S. (hon), FAAN

2014 Fall Evening Program – Cori Bargmann, Ph.D.

2014 Fall Evening Program – Margaret McCarthy, Ph.D.

2014 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize – Lucy Shapiro, Ph.D.

2014 Spring Lecture and Luncheon – Elaine Fuchs, Ph.D.

2014 Beatrice Renfield Lecture – Lily Thomas, Ph.D., R.N., FAAN

2014 Winter Evening Program – Sohail Tavazoie, M.D., Ph.D., Jennifer Stein, M.D., Ph.D., Debra Black

2013 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize – Huda Y. Zoghbi, M.D.

2013 Fall Breakfast Forum – Holly S. Andersen, M.D.

2013 Spring Lecture and Luncheon – Cori Bargmann, Ph.D.

2013 Winter Evening Program – John Coates, Ph.D., Linda Wilbrecht, Ph.D.

2013 Beatrice Renfield Lecture – Diana J. Mason, Ph.D., RN, FAAN

2012 Fall Evening Program – Bruce McEwen, Ph.D., Rachel Yehuda, Ph.D.

2012 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize

2012 Spring Lecture and Luncheon – Titia de Lange, Ph.D.

2012 Beatrice Renfield Lecture
Past, Present, and Future of Clinical Research Nursing

2012 Spring Breakfast Forum – Kimberly Mowry, Ph.D.

2011 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize

2011 Fall Breakfast Forum – Elaine Fuchs, Ph.D.

2011 Spring Lecture and Luncheon – Leslie Vosshall, Ph.D., Frederic Malle

2011 Beatrice Renfield Lecture – Deborah A. Chyun, Ph.D., RN, FAHA, FAAN

2011 Spring Breakfast Forum – Agata Smogorzewska, M.D., Ph.D.

2010 Fall Evening Program – Sarah F. Leibowitz, Ph.D., Evelyn Attia, M.D.

2010 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize

2010 Spring Lecture and Luncheon – Jan L. Breslow, M.D., Barry S. Coller, M.D.

2010 Spring Breakfast Forum – Bruce McEwen, Ph.D., Darcy Kelley, Ph.D., Halla Tomasdottir

2009 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize

2009 Fall Breakfast Forum – Sohail Tavazoie, M.D., Ph.D.

2009 Spring Lecture and Luncheon – Cori Bargmann, Ph.D., Eric Kandel, M.D., Leslie Vosshall, Ph.D.

2009 Beatrice Renfield Lecture

2008 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize – Marilyn A. DeLuca, Ph.D., RN

2009 Spring Breakfast Forum – David G. Nathan, M.D.

2008 Fall Breakfast Forum – Mary Sano, Ph.D., Samuel Gandy, M.D., Ph.D., Paul Greengard, Ph.D.

2008 Spring Lecture and Luncheon – Mary Jeanne Kreek, M.D.

2007 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize

2008 Spring Breakfast Forum – Sarah Schlesinger, M.D.

2008 Winter Evening Program – Joel Cohen, Ph.D., Dr. P.H., Deborah Balk, Ph.D., Ellen Brennan-Galvin, Ph.D., Darren Walker, Esq.

2007 Fall Evening Program – Cynthia Kenyon, Ph.D.

2007 Fall Breakfast Forum – Sidney Strickland, Ph.D.

2007 Spring Lecture and Luncheon – Titia de Lange, Ph.D., Mary Jeanne Kreek, M.D., Leslie Vosshall, Ph.D.

2007 Spring Breakfast Forum – Sarah F. Leibowitz, Ph.D.

2007 Winter Evening Program – Barry S. Coller, M.D.

2006 Fall Evening Program – Eric Kandel, M.D.

2006 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize

2006 Fall Breakfast Forum – Darcy Kelley, Ph.D., Bruce McEwen, Ph.D., Margaret Polaneczky, M.D., Samuel E. Gandy, M.D., Ph.D.

2006 Spring Lecture and Luncheon – Cori Bargmann, Ph.D.

2006 Spring Breakfast Forum – Susan Lindquist, Ph.D.

2006 Winter Evening Program – Robert B. Darnell, M.D., Ph.D.

2005 Fall Evening Program – Martha Farah, Ph.D., Bruce McEwen, Ph.D.

2005 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize

2005 Fall Breakfast Forum – Leslie Vosshall, Ph.D.

2005 Spring Lecture and Luncheon – Paul Nurse, Ph.D., Madhav Dhodapkar, M.D., Titia de Lange, Ph.D., Anne Moore, Ph.D.

2005 Spring Breakfast Forum – Eric Kandel, Ph.D.

2005 Winter Evening Program – Jan L. Breslow, M.D., Barry S. Coller, M.D.

2004 Inaugural Pearl Meister Greengard Prize

2004 Fall Breakfast Forum – Sarah J. Schlesinger, M.D.

2004 Spring Lecture and Luncheon – Mamphela Ramphele, Ph.D.

2004 Spring Breakfast Forum – Ali Brivanlou, Ph.D.

2003 Fall Breakfast Forum – Mary Jeanne Kreek, M.D., Bruce McEwen, Ph.D.

2003 Spring Lecture and Luncheon – Elaine Fuchs, Ph.D.

2003 Spring Breakfast Forum – Jeffrey M. Friedman, M.D., Ph.D.

2002 Fall Breakfast Forum – Darcy Kelley, Ph.D., C. Dominique Toran-Allerand, M.D., Samuel E. Gandy, M.D., Ph.D., Richard S. Bockman, M.D., Ph.D., Jan Breslow, M.D., Bruce McEwen, Ph.D.

2002 Spring Lecture and Luncheon
How Children Learn: Language, Hearing & the Brain

2002 Spring Breakfast Forum – Lisa Drakeman, Ph.D., Teena Lerner, Ph.D.
All’s Well that Ends Well: What Chomosome Tips Can Tell Us about Cancer and Aging

2001 Fall Breakfast Forum – Nina Bhardwaj, M.D., Ph.D., Robert Darnell, M.D., Ph.D.
New Vaccine Strategies: Priming the Immune System to Battle Cancer and Infection

2001 Spring Lecture and Luncheon – Terry Gaasterland, Ph.D., Arnold Levine, Ph.D.
Biology Enters the Information Age: Combating Illness with Personalized Medicine

2001 Spring Breakfast Forum – Lisa Drakeman, Ph.D., Teena Lerner, Ph.D.
Biotechnology in the Post-genomic Era

2000 Fall Breakfast Forum – Richard Bockman, M.D., Ph.D., Jan Breslow, M.D., Howard Fillit, M.D., Barbara Levine, M.D.
The Estrogen Question: Aging, Alzheimer’s, Heart Disease, Menopause and Nutrition

2000 Spring Lecture and Luncheon – Mary E. Hatten, Ph.D.
Dynamic Architecture: Recent Thoughts on the Brain’s Growth and Repair

2000 Spring Breakfast Forum – Robert Lahita, M.D., Ph.D., Jeffrey Ravetch, M.D., Ph.D.
Vulnerabilities of the Female Immune System: Lupus, Rheumatoid Arthritis and other Autoimmune Disorders

1999 Fall Breakfast Forum – Arnold Levine, Ph.D.
Putting the Breaks on Cancer: The p53 Tumor Suppressor Gene

1999 Spring Lecture and Luncheon – Titia de Lange, Ph.D.
The Problem with Immortality: Chromosomes, Cancer & Aging

1999 Spring Breakfast Forum – Michael W. Young, Ph.D.
The Other Biological Clock: How the Body’s Daily Rhythms Affect Life and Death

1998 Fall Breakfast Forum – Jan Breslow, M.D.
Heart Disease: Women’s Leading Health Threat

1998 Spring – Darcy Kelley, Ph.D., Bruce McEwen, Ph.D.
Estrogen & the Brain: New Insights into Women’s Health