Seventh Annual Andrew Carnegie Lecture with Dr Gerald Chan
Seventh Annual Andrew Carnegie Lecture with Dr Gerald Chan
Andrew Carnegie Lecture Series
Date: Wednesday 06 March 2019
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Venue: Sir Charles Wilson Building
Category: Public lectures
Speaker: Dr Gerald Chan
Website: carnegiedrgeraldchan.eventbrite.co.uk
We are delighted to announce that Dr Gerald Chan will be presenting the seventh annual Andrew Carnegie lecture entitled 'The Alchemy of Turning Science into Medicine'.
This lecture explores biotechnology as a practice of translational science. Using two cases of biotech companies from his work — one developing an oncolytic virus and the other, an inhibitor of complement — Dr. Chan will describe the thinking behind steps taken along the pathway to turn scientific discoveries from the laboratory into novel medicines in the clinic. He will also propose a new post-graduate course for training future translational scientists.
Dr. Gerald Chan is a venture capitalist who has done over a dozen biotech start-ups.
He received his Doctor of Science degree in radiation biology from Harvard University and received his post-doctoral training at Dana Farber Cancer Institute. He worked in cancer research, left academia for a career in investments and then came full circle to combine science and investment in starting and building biotech companies across diverse therapeutic areas. Examples among these are Stealth Biotherapeutics which is a pioneer in mitochondrial medicine, Cognoa which uses data science techniques for diagnosis of autism, and Clear-B which is developing a functional cure for chronic hepatitis B infection. The theme running through his portfolio companies is novel science, often unexpected and orthogonal to conventional thinking.
Dr. Chan chairs the Innovation Advisory Committee of the Wellcome Trust. He is a trustee of the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California and a member of the Dean’s Board of Advisors of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health of Harvard University. Pursuant to the donation of a naming gift, the School was renamed in 2014 in honor of Dr. Chan’s late father Mr. T.H. Chan.
He has been honored with six honorary degrees including a Doctor of Science, honoris causa, from University of Glasgow in 2015. He holds an honorary fellowship at Wolfson College of Oxford University. In 2017, he was elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Event Details
Date: Wednesday 6 March 2019
Venue: Sir Charles Wilson Building, University of Glasgow
Doors open: 5.30pm
Lecture starts: 6.00pm
Drinks reception: 7.15pm
Event concludes: 8.00pm
This event is free to attend, however you are required to register before attending. Guests are politely asked to arrive prior to the lecture starting time. There will be a five minute late comers policy for this event.
Please note that this lecture will be filmed.
This is a very popular event and tickets will sell out, so please book early to avoid disappointment.