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
2025	“Isolation of Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors from Human Brain Uncovers Remodelling in Depression” Prof. Carol Robinson, DBE, FRS, FMedSci, FRSC Dr. Lee’s Professor of Chemistry, Director, Kavli Institute for Nanoscience Discovery, University of Oxford Brochure
2024	“Structural Biology of Bacterial Antiphage Defense” Dinshaw J. Patel, Ph.D. Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Chair in Experimental Therapeutics Member, Structural Biology Program Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Brochure
2023	“Immune Recognition of Viral Pathogens: Implications for Designs of Vaccines and Therapeutics” Ian A. Wilson, Ph.D. Scripps Research Institute Brochure
2022	“PROTACs and Targeted Protein Degradation: A New Therapeutics Modality” Craig M. Crews, Ph.D. Yale University Brochure
2021	"Some Assembly Required: of Histone Chaperones, Chromatin Remodelers, and Nucleosome Assembly Factors" Karolin Luger, Ph.D. University of Colorado Boulder Howard Hughes Medical Institute Brochure
2020	“Viral Noncoding RNAs: Approaching Answers” Joan A. Steitz, Ph.D. Yale University School of Medicine Howard Hughes Medical Institute Brochure
2019	"The Coming of Age of De Novo Protein Design" David Baker, Ph.D. University of Washington Howard Hughes Medical Institute Brochure
2018	"Shedding Some Light on the Dark Matter of the Genomic University” Thomas R. Cech, Ph.D. University of Colorado BioFrontiers Institute Howard Hughes Medical Institute * The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1989 Brochure
2017	“Cancer Drug Discovery Using Fragment-Based Methods and Structure-Based Design” Stephen W. Fesik, Ph.D. Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Brochure
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 Brochure
2015	"Structure-based Insights into Activities of Transmembrane Channels and Enzymes" Wayne A. Hendrickson, Ph.D. Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons New York Structural Biology Center Brochure
2014	"Ribisome and tRNA Dynamics During the Elongation Cycle" Joachim Frank, Ph.D. Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Howard Hughes Medical Institute * The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017 Brochure
2013	"Millisecond-Long Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Proteins on a Special-Purpose Machine" David E. Shaw, Ph.D. D.E. Shaw Research Columbia University Brochure
2012	"Cell Regulation by Phosphorylation, Ubiquitylation and SUMOylation" Tony Hunter, Ph.D. The Salk Institute for Biological Studies Brochure
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 Brochure
2010	"Discoveries Through the Computational Microscope" Klaus Schulten, Ph.D. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Brochure
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 Brochure
2008	"Small-Molecule Probe and Drug Discovery" Stuart L. Schreiber, Ph.D. Harvard University The Broad Institute of Harvard & MIT Brochure
2007	"Protein NMR in Structural Biology and Structural Genomics" Kurt Wuthrich, Ph.D. ETH Zurich, Switzerland * The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2002 Brochure
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" Albert J. Hudspeth, M.D., Ph.D. University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

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