Professor Joshua Lederberg, Professor-Emeritus of Molecular Genetics and Informatics at Rockefeller University, will be speaking at the Sackler Distinguished Lecture at the School of Clinical Medicine about the evolutionary competition of humans with microbial species.
Professor Joshua Lederberg, Professor-Emeritus of Molecular Genetics and Informatics at Rockefeller University, will be speaking at the Sackler Distinguished Lecture at the School of Clinical Medicine about the evolutionary competition of humans with microbial species.
His lecture, ‘Our war with microbes - winning the peace’, will discuss how 21st-century globalisation brings more technology to fight microbes, such as antibiotics and vaccines, but coincides with ever increasing vulnerabilities humans have to the emergence and easy spread of new infectious agents.
The lecture will be held on Monday, June 28 at 5.15 pm at the William Harvey Lecture Theatre at the School of Clinical Medicine at Addenbrooke’s hospital.
Professor Lederberg is the Nobel Prize Winner for Physiology or Medicine 1958.
The Sackler Distinguished Lecture was endowed by Dr Raymond and Mrs Beverly Sackler in 1994. It is the major lecture of the Clinical School year and it is held in late June or very early July. Previous lecturers have included Nobel Prize Winners Sir Paul Nurse and Sydney Brenner.
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