Schwartz Lecture
The Schwartz Lectureship was endowed by The Barry S. Strauch and Evelyn M. Strauch Foundation in honor of the late Dr. Irving L. Schwartz (1918-2011), the founding Chair of the former Department of Physiology, and the first Dean of the Mount Sinai Graduate School of Biological Sciences. The Schwartz Lectures are given annually by preeminent scientists in Structural and Chemical Biology to champion Dr. Schwartz’s vision in molecule-based research to the understanding of human physiology and disease. If you’re interested in joining the mailing list for the Lectureship in the future, please contact DPS@mssm.edu.
Year | Lecture |
2021 |
“Some Assembly Required: of Histone Chaperones, Chromatin Remodelers, and Nucleosome Assembly Factors” |
2020 |
“Viral Noncoding RNAs: Approaching Answers” |
2019 |
"The Coming of Age of De Novo Protein Design" |
2018 |
"Shedding Some Light on the Dark Matter of the Genomic University” |
2017 | “Cancer Drug Discovery Using Fragment-Based Methods and Structure-Based Design” Stephen W. Fesik, Ph.D. Vanderbilt University School of Medicine |
2016 | "CRISPR Biology and Genome Engineering Biotechnology" Jennifer Doudna, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley Hughes Medical Institute Howard Hughes Medical Institute * The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 |
2015 |
"Structure-based Insights into Activities of Transmembrane Channels and Enzymes" |
2014 |
"Ribisome and tRNA Dynamics During the Elongation Cycle" |
2013 |
"Millisecond-Long Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Proteins on a Special-Purpose Machine" |
2012 | "Cell Regulation by Phosphorylation, Ubiquitylation and SUMOylation" Tony Hunter, Ph.D. The Salk Institute for Biological Studies |
2011 | "Using Insights from Chemical Genetics to Design New Therapeutics for the Treatment of Cancer" Kevan Shokat, Ph.D. University of California, San Francisco Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
2010 | "Discoveries Through the Computational Microscope" Klaus Schulten, Ph.D. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
2009 | "Life, Death and Translocation: Transcriptional Cycles and the Molecular Logic of Nuclear Receptor-Dependent Tumor Translocations" Michael G. Rosenfeld, M.D. University of California, San Diego Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
2008 | "Small-Molecule Probe and Drug Discovery" Stuart L. Schreiber, Ph.D. Harvard University The Broad Institute of Harvard & MIT |
2007 |
"Protein NMR in Structural Biology and Structural Genomics" |
2006 | "Chromatin and Transcription" Roger Kornberg, Ph.D. Stanford University School of Medicine * The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2006 |
2005 | "Structural Biology of Viral Entry Into Cells" Stephen C. Harrison, Ph.D. Harvard Medical School |
2000 | "Pathogenesis and Prediction of Diabetes: Lessons from Integrative Physiology" Richard N. Bergman, Ph.D. University of Southern California |
1998 | Third Schwartz Lecture Wayne L. Hubbell, M.D., Ph.D. University of California at Los Angeles |
1995 | "Reliable Brains from Unreliable Neurons" Charles F. Stevens, M.D., Ph.D. The Salk Institute for Biological Studies |
1993 |
"How Hearing Happens: Frequently Tuning, and Synaptic Transmission by Hair Cells of the Internal Ear" |