Green Lecture

The Green Lecture was set up in honor of the late Dr. Jack Peter Green (1925-2007), the founding Chair of the former Department of Pharmacology. The Green Lectures are given annually by distinguished scientists in Pharmacology on disease mechanisms and drug action. If you are interested in joining the mailing list for this Lectureship, please contact DPS@mssm.edu.

Year Lecture

2023

“From Integrative Structural Biology to Cell Biology” 
Andrej Sali, PhD
University of California San Francisco
Brochure Coming Soon

2022

“Following the Rabbit into Chemical Space"
Brian Shoichet, Ph.D.
University of California San Francisco
Brochure

2021

"New Chemical and Synthetic Biology Technologies"
Bryan Roth, M.D., Ph.D.
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Brochure

2019

"Cannabidiol and Oxytocin: Mysterious Modulators of Brain Signaling"
Richard Tsien, Ph.D.
New York University Langone Health
Brochure

2018

"Building a Better a Biotech: The Story of Regeneron
George Yancopoulos, M.D., Ph.D.
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
Brochure

2017

“Natural Products as Probes of the Pain Pathway: From Physiology to Atomic Structure
David Julius, Ph.D.
University of California, San Francisco

2013

"A New Take on Uptake: Neurotransmitter Transporters and the Cellular Mechanisms of Amphetamine Action"
Susan G. Amara, Ph.D.
National Institute of Mental Health

2012

"Translational Therapeutics of Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs"
Garret A. Fitzgerald, M.D.
University of Pennsylvania
Perelman School of Medicine

2010

"Pharmacogenetics of Adverse Effect of Antileukemic Therapy"
Mary V. Relling, Ph.D.
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

2008

"Taxol, Tubulin and Tumors: Challenges in the New Era of Cancer Therapeutics"
Susan Band Horwitz, M.D., Ph.D.
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

2005

"Insulin Resistance in the Pancreatic B-cell and a unifying Hypothesis for the Pathogenesis of Type 2 Diabetes"
C. Ronald Kahn, M.D.
Harvard Medical School
The Joslin Diabetes Center