[bioundgrd] Fwd: Screening and Q&A update

[Alan D Grossman]

Please see below for information on the premiere of the documentary film “From Controversy to Cure”.




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Dear friends and colleagues:

On Friday, August 21 at 8pm ET, Greater Boston’s beloved Coolidge Corner Theater is hosting a virtual premiere of From Controversy to Cure<https://coolidge.org/films/controversy-cure?utm_source=Unknown+List&utm_campaign=b82c5a9806-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_08_10_07_22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-b82c5a9806->, a documentary film from MIT Video Productions (MVP) chronicling the biotech boom in Cambridge, as part of its Science on Screen series. The film will then become available to stream for free anytime.

Following the screening, there will be a special virtual Q&A panel<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG2NRCHCECA&feature=emb_title&utm_source=Unknown+List&utm_campaign=b82c5a9806-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_08_10_07_22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-b82c5a9806-> moderated by Antonio Regalado, senior editor for biomedicine at MIT Technology Review, on Tuesday, August 25 at 8pm ET. The panel will include director and MVP Senior Producer Joe McMaster, alongside some of the notable Kendall Square scientists featured in the film, including:

  *   David Baltimore—Founding Director, Whitehead Institute for Biological Research, Former MIT Professor of Biology
  *   Sangeeta Bhatia—MIT Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  *   Nancy Hopkins—MIT Professor of Biology, Emerita
  *   Harvey Lodish—Founding Member, Whitehead Institute for Biological Research, MIT Professor of Biology, Co-Founder of Genzyme
  *   Phillip Sharp—MIT Institute Professor, Nobel Laureate, Cofounder of Biogen

From Controversy to Cure offers an insider’s look at the contentious debate about genetic engineering that erupted in the city of Cambridge in the summer of 1976, bitterly dividing both the science community and local residents. Learn how an unlikely mix of science and engineering, politics, the space race, and urban renewal transformed Kendall Square into one of the world’s most extraordinary innovation clusters—a community now on the front lines of the battle against Covid-19. Learn more on the film’s website<https://www.controversytocure.mit.edu/?utm_source=Unknown+List&utm_campaign=b82c5a9806-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_08_10_07_22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-b82c5a9806->.

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Watch the trailer for From Controversy to Cure: Inside the Cambridge Biotech Boom

We hope you'll join us in celebrating this unique perspective on science and innovation. Both the screening and the Q&A are free and open to the public, so please share with your networks!

Warmly,

Larry Gallagher
Executive Producer, From Controversy to Cure
Senior Producer/Advisor to the Vice President for Open Learning





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