Thursday, May 14 2009

Leadership in Science to Meet the Challenges of a Changing World

Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Masur Auditorium
Building 10, NIH Campus
Bethesda, MD

Title of Talk: “Biochemistry of Transcription Regulation”

Speaker:

Dr. Robert Tjian, President of Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)

Biographical Sketch:
An internationally renowned scientist for his research on tracking down the proteins that regulate the transcription of genes into RNA, the blueprint for production of proteins at UC Berkeley Laboratory. Dr. Tjian, a native of Hong Kong, obtained his B.S. degree in biochemistry from UC Berkeley in 1971, and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1976, and after a post-doctoral fellowship with Nobel Awardee Dr. James Watson at the Cold Spring Harbor laboratory in New York, he joined the UC Berkeley faculty in 1979 and has been there until present. He will assume his new role as President of HHMI on April 1, 2009, overseeing an organization that supports more than 350 investigators at 67 universities, medical schools and research organizations across the United States.

Target Audience: All HHS and NIH Employees and staff

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