Presidential Lecture: Stanley Prusiner, M.D.

Professor of Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco
Director of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases

Awarded the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of prions - a new principle of disease

Therapeutic Approaches to Neurodegeneration in Head Trauma

Bullard Lecture: Robert S. Langer, Ph.D.

David H. Koch Institute Professor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Biomaterials and biotechnology: From the discovery of the first angiogenesis inhibitors to the development of controlled drug delivery systems and the foundation of tissue engineering

Henry Wu Lecture: Sharon L. Juliano, Ph.D.

Professor of Anatomy, Physiology and Genetics
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Mechanisms of neuronal migration in developing normal and dysplastic neocortex

James Leonard Lecture: Michael Feuerstein, Ph.D., MPH, ABPP

Professor, Medical and Clinical Psychology
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Work and Cancer