[BIC-announce] FW: PENFIELD LECTURE - TODAY - Will genetics transform clinical medicine? Sept 23, 4:00 pm

[Jennifer Chew, Ms.]

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Jennifer Chew

McConnell Brain Imaging Centre

MNI - WB317

3801 University Street

Montreal, Qc  H3A 2B4

Telephone:  514-398-8554

Fax:  514-398-2975

 

 

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From: MNISTAFF - Montreal Neurological Institute Staff [mailto:MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA] On Behalf Of Enza Ferracane, Ms.
Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 9:39 AM
To: MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA
Subject: PENFIELD LECTURE - TODAY - Will genetics transform clinical medicine? Sept 23, 4:00 pm



 

You are cordially invited to 

 

The 2009 Penfield Lecture

 

Will genetics transform clinical medicine?

by

Sir John Bell

 

Regius Professor of Medicine

University of Oxford 

 

Wednesday, September 23 at 4 pm

 

Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre

Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital

3801 University Street

 

A reception will follow

 

 

Professor Bell, an advisor to Prime Minister Gordon Brown and to the Gates Foundation on research and global health, founded the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics. In his career, Bell has characterized the genetic susceptibility to Type I diabetes, inflammatory bowel disease, rheumatoid arthritis and other diseases. Days before the lecture, Professor Bell will receive the Henry G. Freisen International Prize in Health Research from the Friends of CIHR.