Distinguished Speakers Seminar Series
Affordable Preventative Medicine for Age-related Diseases
When: Apr. 10th, 2025 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Seminar Series Details:
About George Church, Ph.D. (Harvard, MIT)
George is Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Health Sciences and Technology at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is Director of the U.S. Department of Energy Technology Center and Director of the National Institutes of Health Center of Excellence in Genomic Science. He has received numerous awards including the 2011 Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science from the Franklin Institute and election to the National Academy of Sciences and Engineering.
About this Class
The cost of handling rare and/or late-stage diseases far exceeds preventative strategies. Cell and gene therapies can be quite cost-effective when applied at large population scales (e.g. pandemic vaccines and transfusions). AI ML is revolutionizing protein and RNA design and delivery.