Events
Benning Society Public Lectures
CURRENT LECTURE
Jeffrey M. Friedman, MD, PhD
Marilyn M. Simpson Professor Investigator
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Rockefeller University
January 13, 2026
PRIOR LECTURES
“High-Performance Medicine: The Convergence of Human and Artificial Intelligence”
Eric Topol, MD
Executive Vice President
Scripps Research
November 12, 2024
“Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past”
David Emil Reich, PhD
Professor of Genetics
Harvard Medical School
October 25, 2023
“Transforming Science and Care Delivery to Achieve Health Equity”
Consuelo H. Wilkins, MD, MSCI
Senior Vice President
Senior Associate Dean for Health Equity and Inclusive Excellence
Professor of Medicine
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
September 21, 2022
“The Viruses of Our Lives: Pandemics Past, Present and Future”
Nels Elde, PhD
2020 MacArthur Fellow
H.A. and Edna Benning Presidential Endowed Chair
Associate Professor, Human Genetics
April 28, 2021
“Archaic Genomics”
Svante Pääbo, PhD
2022 Nobel Prize Laureate
Director
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
February 28, 2019
“Rewriting the Language of Life: The Biology, Technology, and Ethics of DNA Editing”
Jennifer Doudna, PhD
HHMI Investigator
Executive Director, Innovative Genomics Institute
Li Ka Shing Chancellor's Chair
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Professor, Molecular & Cell Biology and Chemistry
UC Berkeley
February 28, 2019
“What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear (and Vice Versa): The Highest Stakes in Medicine”
Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD, DLitt (Hon), FACP
Associate Professor of Medicine
New York University School of Medicine
Editor-in-Chief, Bellevue Literary Review
March 21, 2018
“Genomic Analysis of Inherited Breast and Ovarian Cancer: From Gene Discovery to Precision Medicine and Public Health”
Mary-Claire King, PhD
American Cancer Society Professor
Departments of Medicine (Medical Genetics) and Genome Sciences
University of Washington School of Medicine
October 3, 2016
Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine Lectures
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