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The WFO Annual Distinguished Women in Medicine and Science Lecture
Established in 1997 in memory of Carolyn Brent, M.D., founder of Northwestern University Medical Women Faculty Organization

1997
SARAH S DONALDSON, MD
Stanford University
“Cancer Genetics and Clinical Research: Lessons from Pediatric Oncology”  

1998
JUDITH G HALL, MD
University of British Columbia
“Non-traditional Inheritance: The Things Mendel Never Dreamed Of”

1999
HELEN M BLAU, PHD
Stanford University
“Vascular Endothelial Grawth Factor (VEGF): Problems And Prospects For Gene Therapy”

2000
JANET D ROWLEY, MD, DSc
University of Chicago
“Chromosome Translocations: Dangerous Liasons”

2001
ELIZABETH H BLACKBURN, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
“Telomerase, Cell Proliferation, and Cell Death”

2002
CHRISTINA ENROTH-CUGELL, MD, PhD
Northwestern University
“What Old Folks See In A Young Person’s World”

2003
ELIZABETH G NABEL, MD
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of NIH
"Cardiovascular Disease as a Paradigm for Genomic Medicine"

2004     
NEENA B SCHWARTZ, PhD 
Northwestern University
“Why I Was Told Not To Study Inhibin and What I Did About It”

2005
CHRISTINE SEIDMAN, MD
Harvard Medical School
“Engineering Human Heart Disease Genes: Big Insights from Small Models”

2006
MARY J C HENDRIX, PhD
Northwestern University
“The Epigenetic Reprogramming of Metastatic Tumor Cells by Embryonic Microenvironments”

2007
MARGARET SHIPP, MD
Harvard School of Medicine
“Molecular Heterogeneity and Rational Treatment Targets in Large B-cell Lymphomas”

2008
PAULA H STERN, PhD
Northwestern University
“From Ulna to Actin: an Osteo-odyssey”