Guest Lecturer: Samuel Broder, M.D., (Celera, Chief Medical Officer) former director of the National Cancer Institute and whose lab made key contributions to the development of AIDS treatments such as AZT, ddl, and ddc, will deliver lectures on the genomics based diagnosis of disease.
Guest Lecturer: Jonathan Yewdell M.D., Ph.D. (NIH) – leading immunologist and head of NIAID Cell Biology and Viral Immunology – will discuss computational challenges in the arms race between Humans and their pathogens.
Guest Lecturer: Professor John Conway (Princeton) – renown mathematician, recipient of the Berwick, Pólya, and Nemmers Prizes, and fellow of the Royal Society – will discuss mathematical challenges in sphere and side-chain packing problems.
Guest Lecturer: Professor Issam Zineh Pharm.D., MPH (UF) – Associate Director for Genomics in the Office of Clinical Pharmacology, CDER, FDA – will discuss challenges in computational genomics at the FDA.
