2007 Judd Award Lecture
Translational Control in Cancer
Nahum Sonenberg, PhD
James McGill Professor
Department of Biochemistry and McGill Cancer Centre
McGill University

Sorting It All Out: Mechanisms of Protein Trafficking in the Endosomal-Lysosomal System
Juan S. Bonifacino, PhD
Chief, Cell Biology and Metabolism Branch
National Institute of Child Health & Human Development
National Institutes of Health

Unfolded Protein Response: How the Endoplasmic Reticulum Talks to the Nucleus
Peter Walter, PhD
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics
University of California, San Francisco

Modular Protein Interactions and Biological Complexity
Tony Pawson, PhD
Senior Scientist
Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute
Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto

RNAi and Other Ancient Pathways Programmed by Small RNA
Phillip D. Zamore, PhD
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
The University of Massachusetts Medical School

The Role of PI 3-K in Cancer
Lewis C. Cantley, PhD
Professor of Systems Biology
Chief, Division of Signal Transduction
Harvard Institutes of Medicine

Imaging the Developmental Mechanics of the Vertebrate Embryo
Scott Fraser, PhD
Anna L. Rosen Professor of Biology
Professor of Engineering & Applied Science
Director, Biological Imaging
Director, Caltech Brain Imaging Center
California Institute of Technology

Human Genome Variation and the Inherited Basis of Common Disease
David M. Altshuler, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Genetics and of Medicine
Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Founding Member & Director, Program in Medical and Population Genetics
Broad Institute of Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Skin Stem Cells
Elaine Fuchs, PhD
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor
The Rockefeller University

Normalization of Tumor Vasculature and Microenvironment by Antiangiogenic Therapies: From the Bench to Bedside and Back
Rakesh K. Jain, PhD
Andrew Werk Cook Professor of Tumor Biology
Director, Edwin L. Steele Laboratory for Tumor Biology
Department of Radiation Oncology
Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School

Marks-Sackler Lecture
Defects in DNA Break Repair and Relationship to Human Disease
Stephen C. West, PhD, FRS
Genetic Recombination Laboratory
Cancer Research UK

A Rational Approach to Shorten the Duration of Tuberculosis Chemotherapy
Clifton E. Barry, III, PhD
Senior Investigator
Tuberculosis Research Section, Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
National Institutes of Health

VEGF Research: From Bench to Bedside
Napoleone Ferrara, MD
Genentech Fellow
Department of Molecular Oncology
Genentech, Inc.

Genetic Dissection of Cell Death Pathways in Cancer
Tak W. Mak, PhD
Senior Staff Scientist, Ontario Cancer Institute
Princess Margaret Hospital, University Health Network
University Professor, University of Toronto
Director, The Campbell Family Institute for Breast Cancer Research

AML: What We Need to Know to Improve Treatment
Janet Rowley, MD
Blum Riese Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine
University of Chicago

Dendritic Cells and Vaccine Biology
Ralph M. Steinman, MD
Henry G. Kunkel Professor and Senior Physician
The Rockefeller University

Renewing Centromere and Making Kinetochore for Mitotic Check in Human Cells
Mitsuhiro Yanagida, PhD
Principal Investigator and Professor
CREST JST, Graduate School of Biostudies
Kyoto University
G0 Cell Unit
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Corporation

Identification of Pathways that Prevent Genome Instability
2006 Judd Award Lecture
Richard Kolodner, PhD
Executive Director, Laboratory Science and Technology
Head, Laboratory of Cancer Genetics Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research
Professor of Medicine
University of California, San Diego

Molecular Mechanisms of Viral Penetration into Cells
Stephen C. Harrison, PhD
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Professor of Biological Chemistry & Molecular Pharmacology
Professor of Pediatrics
Harvard Medical School

Evolution of Adaptive Immunity in Vertebrates
Max Cooper, MD
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics, Microbiology and Pathology
The University of Alabama at Birmingham

Functions and Therapeutic Targeting of the Cell Types Constituting the Tumor Microenvironment
Douglas Hanahan, PhD
Professor Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics
Comprehensive Cancer Center & Diabetes Center
University of California, San Francisco

Genetic Analyses of Human Cancer
Kenneth W. Kinzler, PhD
Professor of Oncology
The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center
Director, Ludwig Center for Cancer Genetics & Therapeutics
Johns Hopkins University

PTEN and PI3K Pathway Analysis in Sporadic Breast Cancer
Ramon Parsons, MD, PhD
Avon Foundation Associate
Professor of Pathology and Medicine
Institute for Cancer Genetics
Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center
College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University

Advances in Cancer Drug Delivery
Robert S. Langer, ScD
Institute Professor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Antibody Fusion Proteins: Tools in the Battle Against Cancer
Sherie L. Morrison, PhD
Distinguished Professor
Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics
University of California, Los Angeles