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2018 International Gairdner Symposium

October 22, 2018 - 3:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Our 2018 Vancouver  Gairdner presenters will be:

1.Prof. Azim Surani

Recipient of the 2018 Canada Gairdner International Award

“For the discovery of mammalian genomic imprinting that causes parent-of-origin specific gene expression and its consequences for development and disease”

Director of Germline and Epigenetics Research, Wellcome Trust Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute; Marshall-Walton Professor, University of Cambridge

Presentation Title: TBA

2. Dr. Christopher Murray

Recipient of the 2018 John Dirks Canada Gairdner Global Health Award

“For ground-breaking work in conceptualizing and quantifying the Global Burden of Disease”

Director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME); Professor of Global Health, University of Washington

Presentation Title: TBA

Details

Date:
October 22, 2018
Time:
3:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Website:
http://cmmt.ubc.ca/2018-international-gairdner-symposium/

Venue

Life Sciences Institute
2350 Health Sciences Mall
Vancouver, British Columbia Canada
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