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

 BU celebrated the academic inauguration of its Life Science and Engineering Building (LSEB) on October 12, 2005, with a symposium on the future of the life sciences. President Bob Brown and 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.

BostonUniversity President Bob Brown and College of Arts and Sciences

Dean Jeff Henderson

Prof. Sharp (MIT),

Dr. Berg (NIH)

Prof. Tullius, Dr. Roberts, Dr. Berg

Provost David Campbell. President Brown

President Brown

Provost Campbell

In the Audience:  (Front) Prof. John A. Porco, Jr., Chemistry; deLisi; Cooper;

Prof. Ula Hansen, Biology;

Henderson.  (Back) Berg, Henderson

Dr. Jeremy Berg

Professor Tullius