Monday, May 12, 2014 at 10:00 AM
Lecture in the Kahn Auditorium, BSRB (Biomedical Science and Research Building) 109 Zina Pitcher Place.

Richard P. LIfton, MD, PhD, Sterling Professor of Genetics and Professor of Medicine, Chair, Department of Genetics, Yale University School of Medicine and Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the director of the Yale Center for Human Genetics and
Genomics will give the fourteenth James V. Neel Lecture in Human Genetics on Monday, May 12, at 10:00 a.m. Dr. Lifton’s
lecture, “Genes, Genomes and the Future of Medicine” will take place at the A. Alfred Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building, in the D. Dan & Betty Kahn Auditorium, located at 109 Zina Pitcher Place, on the University of Michigan medical campus.

Dr. Lifton uses genetic approaches to identify the genes and pathways that contribute to common human diseases, including cardiovascular, renal, and bone disease.

This annual lectureship honors James V. Neel, M.D., Ph.D., a pioneer in the study of human genetics and one of the first to foresee its importance in the diagnosis and treatment of medical conditions. In 1956, Neel established the first academic department of human genetics in the United States at the University of Michigan Medical School, which he chaired for 25 years.

A Poster Session and Reception will follow the lecture.

Contact the Department of Human Genetics at 734-647-3149 for more information