Fwd: The Cell Press-TNQ India Distinguished Lectureship Series 2015, featuring Professor Eric Lander

[Dr. T. Rajkumar]

Dear Mr. Sundar,

Please could you send me the email ids of all staff and students, to send this announcement on the lecture.

Thanks

T. Rajkumar 

Dear All,

The lecture would benefit staff and students and hence they are encouraged to attend the lecture. You can register in the website and inform if you need transport arrangements as well. 

Thanks and best wishes,

T. Rajkumar 

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From: Kuruvilla Abraham <k...@tnq.in>
Date: 24 January 2015 2:57:46 am GMT+1
To: drtra...@gmail.com
Cc: Mariam Ram <mr...@tnq.co.in>
Subject: The Cell Press-TNQ India Distinguished Lectureship Series 2015, featuring Professor Eric Lander

Dear Dr. Rajkumar,

Thank you so much for sparing the time to meet with us in your office yesterday.

The note below is self explanatory and as discussed I would be very grateful if you could circulate it amongst the doctors and students at the Cancer Insititute, Chennai.

Wishing you a fruitful trip to France and looking forward to meeting you again about this lecture, on your return,

Kind Regards,

Kuruvilla Abraham

The Cell Press TNQ India Distinguished Lectureship Series 2015: Featuring Professor Eric Lander

The Cell Press-TNQ India Distinguished Lectureship Series is co-sponsored by Cell Press and TNQ. Planned as an annual event the lectures are aimed at bringing internationally renowned scientists face to face with the Indian scientific community. They are held in Bengaluru, Chennai and New Delhi each year.

Our list of distinguished speakers so far, have been

S.No.	Name	Year
1	Prof.David Baltimore	2008	Nobel Laureate 1975 for Medicine
2	Prof.Elizabeth Blackburn	2009	Nobel Laureate 2009 for Physiology or Medicine
3	Prof. Shinya Yamanaka	2012	Nobel Laureate 2012 for Medicine
4	Prof.Huda Zoghbi	2014	Pioneering researcher into neurological disorders and nominee for the Nobel Prize in Medicine

In 2015, we are very proud to announce that Professor  Eric Lander, has agreed to be our featured speaker.

Professor Lander is the Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, former member of the Whitehead Institute, and founding director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard who has devoted his career to realizing the promise of the human genome for medicine. He is also co-chair of U.S. President Barack Obama's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.

We have just received the topic for these lectures: "The Human Genome and Beyond. A 35-year Journey of Genomic Medicine."

Beginning in the mid-1980s, Lander conceived and pioneered genomic methods that have now made it possible to discover thousands of genes underlying complex human diseases. His ideas gave rise to international projects to create comprehensive catalogs of human genetic variation (in which his group played a central role) and to hundreds of collaborative efforts around the world to understand the genetic basis of common human diseases, such as diabetes, cancer, inflammatory diseases and psychiatric disorders.

These lectures therefore, would be of particular interest to medical professionals and scientific researchers in these fields.

The Chennai lecture will be held on February 25, 2015 at Mutha Venkata Subba Rao Concert Hall (Lady Andal School) from 6 pm onwards.

We will be very grateful if you could share this email with your colleagues at the Cancer Institute, Chennai and encourage them to register, so that the maximum number of interested people can avail of this valuable opportunity.

Our web page (http://tnq.co.in/ericlander.html) is live and provides details about the lecture tour, the schedule, the topic and Professor Eric Lander. 

This year we have instituted a system of on-line registration for these lectures. The registration page is at http://ericlander.tnq.co.in. This is aimed at facilitating seat allotments and making transport arrangements for those institutions that guarantee a minimum number of 25+ attendees. Registration is free.

Registrants can also contribute to the interest generated by this event by following us on Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Cell-Press-TNQ-India-Distinguished-Lectureship-Series/1526477087602940?ref=hl

Our aim continues to be to inspire Indian students of science to make a life of excellence in research. We look forward to your presence at this lecture and your support of the Cell Press-TNQ India Distinguished Lectureship Series that has established a tradition of bringing cutting edge life sciences to students of science in India to promote interaction and inspiration.

Should you have any queries, you can mail me at this ID or call me on +919884030991.

I am also attaching the pdf file on this subject to this mail, in case you should find it useful for circulation.

Kind Regards,

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Kuruvilla Abraham
Managing Director
TNQ Sponsorship (India) Private Limited
http://www.tnq.in