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DESCRIPTION:The Lady Davis Institute\, The Neuro and the 91ºÚÁÏÍø Department 
 of Human Genetics present\n\nA 91ºÚÁÏÍø Distinguished Lecture in Human Genet
 ics\n\nFrom Genes and Genomes to Biology and Health\n\nRichard Lifton\, M.
 D.\, Ph.D.\n	Laboratory of Human Genetics and Genomics\n	President\, The Roc
 kefeller University\n\nDr. Richard P. Lifton is the 11th President of the 
 Rockefeller University\, where he is also Carson Family Professor and Head
  of the Laboratory of Human Genetics and Genomics. He has pioneered the us
 e of genetics and genomics to understand fundamental mechanisms underlying
  human diseases. He is well-known for his discovery that mutations with la
 rge effect on human blood pressure act by altering renal salt reabsorption
 \, discoveries that have informed public health efforts and therapeutic st
 rategies used worldwide to prevent heart attacks and strokes\, and for his
  development of exome sequencing for clinical diagnosis and disease gene d
 iscovery. Dr. Lifton graduated from Dartmouth College\, obtained M.D. and 
 Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University and completed training in Internal 
 Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Prior to Rockefeller\, he was ch
 air of the Department of Genetics and Sterling Professor at Yale Universit
 y\, where he founded the Yale Center for Genome Analysis. He is a member o
 f the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine\, 
 and has served on the governing councils of both organizations. He current
 ly serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Simons Foundation for Au
 tism Research\, and has previously served on the Advisory Council to the N
 IH Director\, the Scientific Advisory Boards of the Whitehead Institute an
 d the Broad Institute. He also serves on the Board of Directors of Roche a
 nd its subsidiary Genentech. He has received numerous awards for his resea
 rch\, including the 2014 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences\, the 2008 Wi
 ley Prize\, and the highest scientific awards of the American Heart Associ
 ation\, the American Society of Nephrology\, the Council for High Blood Pr
 essure Research\, the International Society for Nephrology and the Interna
 tional Society for Hypertension. He has received honorary doctorates from 
 Northwestern University\, Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Yale Universi
 ty.\n
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DTEND:20190905T170000Z
LOCATION:Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre\, Montreal Neurological Institute\, CA
 \, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 2B4\, 3801 rue University
SUMMARY:91ºÚÁÏÍø Distinguished Lecture in Human Genetics
URL:/medhealthsci/channels/event/mcgill-distinguished-
 lecture-human-genetics-299502
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