2005 Life Science and Engineering Symposium

Symposium Organizers: Prof. Ken Lutchen, Chairman, Biomedical Engineering; Prof. Geof Cooper, Chairman, Biology, Prof. Charles deLisi, Senior Associate Provost; and Prof. Tom Tullius, Chairman, Chemistry

Boston University celebrated the academic inauguration of its Life Science and Engineering Building (LSEB) on October 12 with a day-long symposium on the future of the life sciences. The University’s life sciences faculty—from Chemistry, Biology, Biomedical Engineering, and the Program in Bioinformatics—hosted distinguished scientists from across the country, including a stellar roster of featured speakers:

Jeremy Berg, director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, whose $1.8 billion budget funds basic biomedical research in cell biology, biophysics, genetics, pharmacology, biological chemistry, physiology, bioinformatics, and computational biology;

Robert Langer, the Kenneth J. Germeshausen Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at MIT and one of the most influential figures in biotechnology;

Phillip Sharp, MIT Institute Professor, founding director of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, leading cancer researcher, and co-winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in medicine;

Richard Roberts, the other winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in medicine (for their separate discovery of split genes), and research director at New England Biolabs.