Making Stem-cell Therapy a Reality

Rudolph Jaenisch
September 28, 2010
Running time: 58:08

Rudolf Jaenisch, professor of biology and a founding member of the Whitehead Institute, was MIT's James R. Killian Jr. Faculty Achievement Award winner for 2009–2010. A pioneer in the field of mammalian developmental genetics, Professor Jaenisch helped found the area of transgenic science, the science of gene transfer for making mouse models, which is now widely used for studying human genetic diseases. Read more at MIT News.

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Worms, Life and Death: Cell Suicide in Development and Disease

H. Robert Horvitz
April 24, 2007
Running Time: 1:11:53

Nobel laureate H. Robert Horvitz, the David H. Koch professor of cancer biology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, was the winner of the 2006–2007 James R. Killian Jr. Faculty Achievement Award. The Horvitz laboratory has identified genes and proteins involved in the four-step genetic pathway of cell division and death, work that has potential for application in the treatment of human diseases. Read more about Professor Horvitz's lecture at MIT News.

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Genes and the Origins of Human Cancer

Robert A. Weinberg
April 24, 2000

Dr. Weinberg, the Daniel K. Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research and American Cancer Society Professor of Biology, is one of the country's most eminent cell biologists. As the winner of the prestigious James R. Killian Jr. Faculty Achievement Award, announced last June, he delivered the Killian lecture, "Genes and the Origins of Human Cancer," to the MIT community this spring. Read more at MIT News.

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Phillip Sharp
Spring of 1994

The 1993–94 Killian Award Lecturer is Professor Phillip A. Sharp, head of the Department of Biology, a scientist internationally recognized for his contributions to molecular biology. As a postdoctoral fellow at CalTech, the committee went on, "he began to study the molecular biology of the genetic elements known as plasmids, drawn from such humble bacteria as the E. coli that thrive in all of our digestive tracts. This was followed by a three-year stint at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York, where his research moved on to related but yet more difficult problems involving animal viruses and mammalian cells. Then he came to MIT. as an associate professor. Read more at MIT News.

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Alexander Rich
Spring 1981

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