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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:13.0pt">The Laser Biomedical Research Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is delighted to host</span></i><span style="font-size:13.0pt">
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</span><b><span style="font-size:22.0pt">Rebecca Richards-Kortum</span></b><span style="font-size:22.0pt">
</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt">as its 2019 Dasari Lecturer on</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt">
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</span><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt">Thursday, September 19, 2019 at 12pm</span></b><span style="font-size:13.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:24.0pt">“</span></b><b><span style="font-size:24.0pt">High Resolution Optical Imaging for Global Cancer Prevention”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:13.0pt;color:red">In order to accommodate demand, this lecture has been moved to the
<a href="http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=76"><span style="color:red">Koch Institute Auditorium</span></a> (Room 76-156),
</span></i><i><span style="font-size:13.0pt"><br>
<span style="color:red">located at 500 Main Street in Cambridge<br>
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</span></span></i><b><u><span style="font-size:13.0pt">R.S.V.P. is not required to attend this lecture</span></u></b><i><span style="font-size:13.0pt"><br>
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<p class="p2" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Ph.D.</span></i></b><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt"> is the Rice University Malcolm Gillis University Professor of Bioengineering, the Director
of Rice 360°: Institute for Global Health, and serves as the special advisor to the Provost on health-related research and educational initiatives. Her research has been instrumental in improving early detection of cancers and other diseases, especially in
low-resources settings. She is currently working with colleagues and undergraduate students to develop a Nursery of the Future to provide technologies necessary to reduce neonatal death in sub-Saharan Africa to rates equivalent to the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">______________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Christine Brooks</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Administrative Assistant<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Massachusetts Institute of Technology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Department of Chemistry<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">77 Massachusetts Ave, 6-333<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Cambridge, MA 02139<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">p: 617.253.7239<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">e: <a href="mailto:cbrooks@mit.edu"><span style="color:#0563C1">cbrooks@mit.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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