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2025
Stopping Cancer in Its Tracks: Fighting Cancer Metastasis
Sohail Tavazoie, M.D., Ph.D.
Leon Hess Professor and Senior Attending Physician, The Rockefeller University
Lecture Video(opens in new window)

2024
The Doppelgänger in Your Head
Winrich Freiwald, Ph.D.
Denise A. and Eugene W. Chinery Professor, The Rockefeller University
Lecture Video(opens in new window)

2023
Riveting Memories: How They Are Made and Lost
Robert B. Darnell, M.D., Ph.D.
Robert and Harriet Heilbrunn Professor, The Rockefeller University
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Lecture Video(opens in new window)

2022
Infectious Diseases and Immunology
Lecture Video(opens in new window)

Part 1: Before There Was COVID, There Was (and Is!) Tuberculosis
Jeremy M. Rock, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, The Rockefeller University

Part 2: Mosquitoes: The World’s Most Dangerous Animal
Leslie B. Vosshall, Ph.D.
Robin Chemers Neustein Professor, The Rockefeller University
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Part 3: Antibody-based Therapies for HIV and COVID-19
Christian Gaebler, M.D.(opens in new window)
Assistant Professor of Clinical Investigation, The Rockefeller University

2021
COVID-19: Insights and Overview – Session 4
COVID-19 Pandemic: The Road to Recovery
Richard P. Lifton, M.D., Ph.D.
President and Carson Family Professor, The Rockefeller University
Lecture Video(opens in new window)

COVID-19: Insights and Overview – Session 3
Viruses and Vaccines
Paul Bieniasz, Ph.D.
Professor, The Rockefeller University
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

COVID-19: Insights and Overview – Session 2
Using Science to Advance Health Equity
Chibuzo U. Enemchukwu, M.D., M.S.(opens in new window)
Senior Research Scientist, Department of Psychology, Hunter College, The City University of New York
Visiting Fellow, The Rockefeller University
Lecture Video(opens in new window)

COVID-19: Insights and Overview – Session 1
Neutralizing Antibodies: Precision-guided Weapons against SARS-CoV-2
Marina Caskey, M.D.
Professor of Clinical Investigation, The Rockefeller University
Lecture Video(opens in new window)

2020
Singing in the Brain: A Personal Science Journey
Erich D. Jarvis, Ph.D.
Professor, The Rockefeller University
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Lecture Video Part 1(opens in new window) | Lecture Video Part 2(opens in new window)

2019
The Social Lives of Ants
Daniel Kronauer, Ph.D.
Stanley S. and Sydney R. Shuman Assistant Professor, The Rockefeller University
Lecture Video Part 1(opens in new window) | Lecture Video Part 2(opens in new window)

2018
The World’s Most Dangerous Animal
Leslie Vosshall, Ph.D.
Robin Chemers Neustein Professor, The Rockefeller University
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Benjamin J. Matthews, Ph.D.
Research Specialist, The Rockefeller University
Lecture Video Part 1(opens in new window) | Lecture Video Part 2(opens in new window)

2017
Are Infectious Diseases Only Infectious?(opens in new window)
Jean-Laurent Casanova, M.D., Ph.D.
Levy Family Professor, Senior Attending Physician, The Rockefeller University
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Lecture Video Part 1(opens in new window) | Lecture Video Part 2(opens in new window)

2016
Drug Discovery 101: Precision Medicine for the 21st Century(opens in new window)
Thomas P. Sakmar, M.D.
Richard M. and Isabel P. Furlaud Professor, Senior Physician, The Rockefeller University
Lecture Video(opens in new window)

2015
Making Sense of the Senses(opens in new window)
A. James Hudspeth, M.D., Ph.D.
F.M. Kirby Professor, The Rockefeller University
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Lecture Video(opens in new window)

2013
Epigenetics: Inheriting More Than Genes(opens in new window)
C. David Allis, Ph.D.
Joy and Jack Fishman Professor, Tri-Institutional Professor, The Rockefeller University
Lecture Video(opens in new window)

2012
Bacteria’s Deadly Design
C. Erec Stebbins, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, The Rockefeller University
Lecture Video(opens in new window)

2011
Not Just Another Macrophage
Sarah Schlesinger, M.D.
Associate Professor of Clinical Investigation, The Rockefeller University
Marina Caskey, M.D.
Associate Professor of Clinical Investigation, The Rockefeller University
Lecture Video(opens in new window)

2010
When Good Cells Go Bad
Sohail Tavazoie, M.D., Ph.D.
Leon Hess Associate Professor, Senior Attending Physician, The Rockefeller University
Lecture Video(opens in new window)

2009
Battle of the Mutants
F. Nina Papavasiliou, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor, The Rockefeller University
Lecture Video(opens in new window)

2008
Life, Through a Lens
Sanford M. Simon, Ph.D.
Günter Blobel Professor, The Rockefeller University
Lecture Video(opens in new window)

2007
Five Great Ideas of Biology
Paul Nurse, Ph.D.
President Emeritus, Professor, The Rockefeller University
Lecture Video(opens in new window)

2006
Covert Ops: The Chemicals behind Invisible Communications
Leslie B. Vosshall, Ph.D.
Robin Chemers Neustein Professor, The Rockefeller University
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Lecture Video(opens in new window)

2005
Phage: Invasion of the Bacteria Snatchers
Vincent A. Fischetti, Ph.D.
Professor, The Rockefeller University
Lecture Video(opens in new window)

2004
Viruses: Biology’s Quick and Undead
Charles M. Rice, Ph.D.
Maurice R. and Corinne P. Greenberg Professor in Virology, The Rockefeller University
Lecture Video Part 1(opens in new window) | Lecture Video Part 2(opens in new window)

2003
Glia: More Than Just Brain Glue
Shai Shaham, Ph.D.
Richard E. Salomon Family Professor, The Rockefeller University

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