The Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine for the Prevention of Human Diseases

Ambro van Hoof, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics
University of Texas – Houston Medical School

Title of Lecture:  “RNA Processing and Degradation  by the RNA Exosome"

Dr. David Mangelsdorf
Professor and Chair,
Department of Pharmacology
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
UT Southwestern Medical Center

Title of Lecture: “Nuclear Receptor Control of nutrient Metabolism”

Nicholas Gaiano, Ph.D
Associate Professor of Neurology,
Neuroscience and Oncology
Institute for Cell Engineering
Johns Hopkins University

Title of Lecture:  New Roles for Notch and NF-KB Signaling during Brain
Development and Function

Dr. Bill Saxton
Professor
Molecular Cell & Developmental Biology
University of California Santa Cruz

Title of Lecture: “Mechanisms of Organelle Transport and Axon Degeneration”

Brendan Lee, M.D., Ph.D.
Investigator
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Professor
Department of Molecular and
Human Genetics
Baylor College of Medicine

Title of Lecture: “Inborn Errors of Urea Synthesis and Nitric Oxide Metabolism”

John McDevitt, Ph.D.
Brown-Wiess Professor of Chemistry and BioengineeringDepartment of Chemistry
Rice University

Stephen H. Safe, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor of Veterinary Physiology and Pharmacology
Syd Kyle Chair in Veterinary Medicine
Texas A&M University 

Aldons J. Lusis, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Medicine
Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics
Department of Human Genetics
UCLA

Benoit de Crombrugghe, M.D.
Professor and Chairman
Department of Molecular Genetics
UTMD Anderson Cancer Center

John Reveille, M.D.
Professor of Internal Medicine
Director, Divition of Rheumatalogy & Clinical Immunogenetics
UTHSC at Houston

Karen K. Hirschi, Ph.D.
Professor
Departments of Pediatrics and
Molecular & Cellular Biology
Center for Cell and Gene Therapy
Baylor College of Medicine

Jay Shendure, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Genome Sciences
School of Medicine
University of Washington

Leslie Leinwand, Ph.D.
Professor
Molecular, Cellular and Developmental
Biology
University of Colorado at Boulder

Michael Beierlein
Department of Neurobology and Anatomy
University of Texas Medical School

Zahid Hussain Siddik, Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine (Pharmacology)
Department of Experimental Therapeutics
Division of Cancer Medicine
The University of Texas
MD Anderson Cancer Center

F. Sessions Cole, M.D.
Park J. White, M.D., Professor of
Pediatrics
Assistant Vice Chancellor for Children's
Health
Vice Chairman, Department of
Pediatrics
Director, Division of Newborn Medicine
Chief Medical Officer, St. Louis
Children's Hospital

Dr. Barry Stripp
Professor of Medicine and Cell Biology
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care
Duke University Medical Center

Yueming Li, Ph.D.
Molecular Pharmacology & Chemistry

John L. Spudich, Ph.D.
Robert A. Welch Distinguished Chair in Chemistry
Director, Center for Membrane Biology
Professor, Departments of
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and
Microbiology & Molecular Genetics
University of Texas Medical School

Dr. Michael S. Gilmore
Charles L. Schepens Professor of Ophthalmology
Department of Ophthalmology
Harvard Medical School

Donald M. McDonald, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
Cardiovascular Research Institute,
Comprehensive Cancer Center, and
Department of Anatomy
University of California, San Francisco

Feng Liu, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Pharmacology
UTHSCSA

Jonathan Sebat, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Chief, Beyster Center for Molecular
Genomics of Neuropsychiatric Diseases
Department for Psychiatry
Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
University of California

Huda Y. Zoghbi, M.D.
Professor, Department of Human & Molecular Genetics
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Baylor College of Medicine

Dr. Patrick Hwu
Professor & Chair
Department of Melanoma Medical Oncology
University of Texas MD Anderson
Cancer Center

Chen Dong, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Immunology
Director, Center for Inflammation and Cancer
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Fred Schroeder, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Physiology & Pharmacology
College of Veterinary Medicine
Texas A&M University

Ali Azhdarinia, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
IMM Center for Molecular Imaging

Paul Fitzpatrick, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Biochemistry
UTHSC-San Antonio

Dmitry I. Gabrilovich, M.D., Ph.D.
Robert Rothman Endowed Chair in
Cancer Research, Head, Section of
Dendritic Cell Biology, H. Lee Moffitt
Cancer Center and Research Institute, Professor of Oncologic
Sciences and  Molecular Medicine
University of South Florida, MRC 2067,