Keynote Speaker: Nobel Laureate Oliver Smithies
Keynote Speaker: Oliver Smithies, DPhil
Oliver Smithies, DPhil, the Excellence Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will present the keynote lecture at GPEN2010. Smithies was the co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for the discovery of the principles of introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells. His lecture will be titled “Importance of Translating Basic Biomedical Research into Medicine”.
