Aging Brain Seminar with Ronald A. DePinho, MD, MD Anderson Cancer Center

• Date: Monday, February 24
• Time: 4:00pm
• Location: 46-3310, Picower Seminar Room (in-person only)

Talk Title: Telomerase in Cancer, Aging, and Alzheimer’s

Abstract: Abstract to come.

Ronald A. DePinho, M.D. is the past president and distinguished university professor at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. He studied biology at Fordham University, received his M.D. degree with distinction from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and performed his residency and postdoctoral training at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. His research career began at Einstein as the Feinberg Senior Faculty Scholar in Cancer Research and an ACS Research Professor. He then joined the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School where he was the founding Director of the Belfer Institute for Applied Cancer Science. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and the National Academy of Science, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association of the Advancement of Science, and the American Association of Cancer Research.