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November 19, 2003

Health as an Imperative to Peace and Peace as an Imperative to Health

Prof. Joshua Lederberg

Nobel Laureate for Medicine, New York


Keynote Speaker

Prof. Joshua Lederberg is an American geneticist and pioneer in the field of bacterial genetics who shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine (with George W. Beadle and Edward L. Tatum) for discovering the mechanisms of gentic recombination in bacteria. He studied under Tatum in Yale and taught at the University of Wisconsin where he established the Department of Medical Genetics. In 1959 he joined the Faculty of Stanford Medical School serving as Director of the Kennedy Laboratories of Molecular Medicine from 1962 to 1978, when he moved to New York City to become President of the Rockefeller University. He held that post until 1990. Prof. Lederberg's discoveries greatly increased the utility of bacteria as a tool in genetics research. His discovery of transduction provided the first hint that genes could be inserted into cells. The realization that the genetic material of living things could be directly manipulated bore fruit in the field of genetic engineering, or recombinant DNA technology.



Wednesday, November 19, 2003:

14:00 Keynote speech and dialogue at Chulalongkorn University: 'Health as an imperative to peace and peace as an imperative to health'

Info and free tickets: Phone (02) 218 3331-5, Fax (02) 216 1299, E-mail int.off@chula.ac.th



Wednesday, November 19, 2003:

14:00 Keynote speech and dialogue at Chulalongkorn University: 'Health as an imperative to peace and peace as an imperative to health'

Info and free tickets: Phone (02) 218 3331-5, Fax (02) 216 1299, E-mail int.off@chula.ac.th