[Mitworld] MIT150 Panels on Personalized Medicine, Shirley Ann Jackson and Charles Vest on Gender Equity

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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 10, Number 44 |  May 4, 2011

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Personalized Cancer Care
March 16, 2011

In the final of four symposia on pathbreaking cancer research, Tyler Jacks expresses “great optimism 
that we’re getting close, that we can see over the horizon...and we will be successful in controlling 
the disease in the not too distant future.” Panelists discuss how personalized medicine will pave 
the way to this future.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/899

Moderator:
Michael Yaffe
Howard and Linda Stern Career Development Associate Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering, MIT
 Attending Surgeon, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School

Member, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research

Event Host:
MIT150 Inventional Wisdom

"This is precisely what we mean when say personalized medicine: providing therapy to a subset of 
patients we know will respond very well to that therapy and avoiding those patients where we know 
it will have an adverse effect."
-Michael Hemann

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Academic Leaders: Perspectives and Current Challenges
March 28, 2011

Two influential academic leaders, both holding a significant place in MIT’s history, reflect on 
efforts to achieve gender equity in science and engineering at MIT and other institutions of 
higher learning.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/901

Speakers:
Shirley Ann Jackson '68, PhD '73
President, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Charles M. Vest HM
President, National Academy of EngineeringPresident Emeritus, MIT


Event Host:
MIT150 Inventional Wisdom

"If the U.S. is to maintain scientific and engineering leadership in the 21st century and contribute 
to solving global challenges, it must have the full creative and entrepreneurial participation of 
all people, and continue to tap talent from abroad. But as long as women face barriers that inhibit 
success in research-intensive universities, the nation will be deprived of a vital source of 
talent... and our global future and social stability will be at risk."
-Shirley Ann Jackson

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In The Pipeline:

A Conversation with Sherry Turkle

Presented By:
Communications Forum

Speaker:
Sherry Turkle
Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology
MIT Program in Science, Technology and Society

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