The Biomedical Graduate Student Symposium—an annual student-organized symposium showcasing the outstanding research of graduate students from the School of Medicine, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine—will take place Friday, May 8, from 8 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. in the Wolstein Research building.
Nobel Laureate David Baltimore, the Robert Andrews Millikan Professor of Biology at California Institute of Technology, will give the keynote address. Baltimore is most noted for his groundbreaking discoveries of NF-kB transcription factor and the retroviral Reverse Transcriptase enzyme. The keynote address will be from noon to 1 p.m.
The symposium also will include a poster presentation from 9 to 11 a.m. and oral presentations from 1 to 3:30 p.m. An awards ceremony will be held from 4 to 4:15 p.m. to conclude the event.
More information about the symposium and Baltimore is available online at filer.case.edu/org/bgss/site/Home.htm.