The Power of Collaboration
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Infusing Humanistic Approaches and Sensibilities into Economics
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
A Scientist and a Humanist Walk Into a Bar ….
Wednesday, October 4, 2017
Speakers
![Susan Phillips](https://www.nulearningforlife.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/phillips.png)
Susan E. Phillips
- Alumnae of Northwestern Teaching Professor
- Associate Professor of English
![Indira Raman](https://www.nulearningforlife.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/raman.png)
Indira M. Raman, PhD
- Professor, Bill and Gayle Cook Chair in Biological Sciences, Neurobiology
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Synthetic Biology
Wednesday, October 11, 2017
Speakers
![Neda Bagheri](https://www.nulearningforlife.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Bacheri.png)
![Michael C. Jewett](https://www.nulearningforlife.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/jewett.png)
Michael C. Jewett
- Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence
- Associate Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Co-director, Center for Synthetic Biology, Northwestern University
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Milan Mrksich, PhD
- NU Vice President for Research
- Henry Wade Rogers Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Professor of Chemistry
- Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
- Founding Director NU Center for Synthetic Biology
- Associate Director of the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center,
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Transforming Cardiology
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
Speakers
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Elizabeth M. McNally, MD, PhD
- Director, Center for Genetic Medicine
- Elizabeth J. Ward Professor of Genetic Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine
- Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
![Robert Greg Webster](https://www.nulearningforlife.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/webster.png)
Robert Greg Webster, MD
- Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Cardiology), Feinberg School of Medicine
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Evening Event at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab - Soft Electronics for the Human Body
Wednesday, October 25, 2017 at 5:00 pm 355 East Erie Street, complimentary valet parking for this event is available
Speakers
![John Rogers](https://www.nulearningforlife.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Rogers.png)
John Rogers, PhD
- Louis Simpson and Kimberly Querrey Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Medicine and Simpson Querrey Institue resident
- And by courtesy Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering and Chemistry
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Joanne C. Smith, MD
- President and Chief Executive Officer, Shirley Ryan AbilityLab
- Assistant Professor, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Feinberg School of Medicine
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How Integrating Patient Care and Research Transforms Both
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
Speakers
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Joanne C. Smith, MD
- President and Chief Executive Officer, Shirley Ryan AbilityLab
- Assistant Professor, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Feinberg School of Medicine
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Richard L. Lieber
- Chief Scientific Officer & Senior Vice President or Research, Shirley Ryan AbilityLab
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Two Heads Are Better Than One
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
Speakers
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Thomas P. Shanley, MD
- Chair, Department of Pediatrics
- Founders’ Board Centennial Professor
- Professor of Pediatrics, Feinberg School of Medicine
- Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
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Donald M. Lloyd-Jones, MD, ScM, FACC, FAHA
- Senior Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Research
- Chair, Department of Preventive Medicine
- Director, Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (NUCATS)
- Eileen M. Foell Professor
- Professor of Preventive Medicine (Epidemiology) and Medicine (Cardiology)
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Immunotherapy Approaches to Cancer Therapy
Wednesday, November 15, 2017
Speakers
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Chad Mirkin
- The Mirkin Research Group
- Director, International Institute for Nanotechnology
- George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry
- McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
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Andrew Lee
- Research Assistant Professor Chemical and Biological Engineering; Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science