SWINY EVENT

May 1, 2000

Monday Mind Benders: Q and A Sessions
cosponsored by SWINY and The Gene Media Forum

Now that the human genome has been sequenced, the debates intensify around such issues as free access vs. access for pay, patenting genetic information, and the future of gene therapy.

ATTENTION: THE APRIL 24th EVENT WITH DR. FRANCIS COLLINS HAS BEEN CANCELLED. PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT THE MAY 1st EVENT WITH DR. HAROLD VARMUS IS STILL SCHEDULED, AS PLANNED.

Session 2: One on One with Dr. Harold Varmus
Monday, May 1, 2000
Moderator:  Philip M. Boffey, Deputy Editorial Page Editor - The New York Times
12 noon to 2:30 p.m.
Syracuse University's Lubin House
11 East 61st Street in Manhattan

Dr. Harold Varmus

President of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Former director of the National Institutes of Health, 1993-1999
Co-recipient, with Michael J. Bishop, of the 1989 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
Dr. Varmus headed NIH during some of its most eventful years.  Among them were the rapid advances of the Human Genome Project and the changing of the Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee from a regulatory committee to an advisory one.  His tenure also saw the challenge of Craig Venter, head of Celera, who announced he would map the human genome with private money ahead of the public effort.

Broadcast media are encouraged to bring recording equipment and/or crews. Teleconferencing can be arranged for those that can not attend.
 

RSVP to
Erica Cerilli 212/826-0256 or eacerill@syr.edu

The Gene Media Forum
Promoting public dialogue of genome research and its impact on science and society. Major funding from JGS, The Joy of Giving Something, Inc.
Advisory Committee: David Baltimore, Walter Eckhart, Ruth
Macklin, Paul Marks, Ken Olden, Herb Pardes, Jack Rosenthal

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