[BIC-announce] FW: Francis McNaughton Lecture - Dec 7 at 9:00 am

[Jennifer Chew, Ms.]

PLEASE DISCARD IF THIS IS A DUPLICATE.  THANK YOU.  JENNIFER 
 

Jennifer Chew

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Francis McNaughton Lecture - "The expanding spectrum of myogenic
progenitor cells"
Friday December 7, 2007 at 9:00 am in the Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre
Thomas Rando, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences,
Stanford University School of Medicine, Chief of Neurology, Veterans
Administration, Paulo Alto Health Care System and Deputy Director,
Stanford Center of Longevity, Stanford University.

Dr. Thomas Rando is a world-renowned physician scientist. He obtained
his BSc, MD and PhD from Harvard University and conducted his neurology
training at the University of California (San Francisco).  Dr. Rando
spent four years as a research fellow at Stanford in Molecular
Pharmacology. 

Dr. Rando's clinical focus is on neuromuscular diseases while his
research concentrates on molecular biology of muscle development and
ageing. Over a relatively short academic carrier he distinguished
himself as a brilliant scientist receiving many honours and authored or
coauthored over 70 major articles published in prestigious journals as
Science, Nature, Cell etc. His early research focused on the biology of
sodium channels in neural tissues.  Currently he is working on the
pathophysiology of dystrophin deficiency in skeletal muscle fibres and
on the molecular biology of myogenesis and aging. In the latter fields,
he clarified the molecular and cellular characteristics of the various
types of myogenic progenitor cells, including stem cells, and their
significance in cell therapy as well as aging. In his McNaughton
Lecture, he will share with us his extensive experience in the latter
fields.  I hope that you will join us.

Regards,

George Karpati