[BIC-announce] FW: Killam Lecture - Tuesday, March 2, 2010

[Jennifer Chew, Ms.]

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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Subject: Killam Lecture - Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Killam Lecture

Speaker:  Kari Stefansson, PhD
CEO, decode Genetics, Reykjavik, Iceland

Title:  Genetics of Common Diseases

Date:  Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Place:  **JEANNE TIMMINS AMPHITHEATRE**

Time :  4:00 pm

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Dr. Kari Stefansson
Killam March 2, 2010


Kari Stefansson is a neurologist/neuropathologist who is the founder of deCODE Genetics, a company that has been a global leader in the discovery of genes that underlie susceptibility to a wide range of human disorders, including those that are of specific interest to basic and clinical neuroscientists. Amongst these are cerebral vascular disease, migraine, and schizophrenia.  The scope and successes of his programme are reflected in the more that one dozen publications appearing in Nature/Nature Genetics in 2009.  His scientific approach applying molecular genetic analyses to a comprehensive population with well documented clinical information has received wide international attention.  As well, Kari Stefansson was named one of Time Magazines 100 in 2007.


Jack Antel



Enza Ferracane
Montreal Neurological Institute
3801 University
Montreal, Quebec  H3A 2B4
Director's Office, Rm 636
Tel: (514) 398-1903
Fax:  (514) 398-8248
Email: enza.ferracane at mcgill.ca<mailto:enza.ferracane at mcgill.ca>

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