Register to The Oskar Fisher Lecture Series Featuring Keynote, Christopher Walsh, M.D., Ph.D: “You Contain Multitudes: Somatic Mutation and Genomic Mosaicism in the Human Brain in Development, Disease, and Degeneration”. April 11, 2024.

Thursday, April 11, 2024
3 p.m. (CDT)
Dell Medical School
Health Learning Building
1501 Red River Street
Austin, Texas

The Oskar Fischer Lecture Series features invited scholars working at the vanguard of new ideas on the mechanisms, diagnosis and treatment of dementing illnesses.

The 11th lecture of the series will feature Christopher Walsh, M.D., Ph.D.,Chief, Division of Genetics and Genomics; Bullard Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology at Harvard Medical School; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Director and co-PI, Allen Discovery Center for Human Brain Evolution; Associate Member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

Dr. Walsh completed his PhD (in Neurobiology, with Ray Guillery, 1983) and MD (1985) at The University of Chicago, before coming to Boston for medical internship, neurology residency and chief residency at Massachusetts General Hospital. During and after residency he pursued postdoctoral training in the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School with Professor Constance Cepko. In 1993 he became Assistant Professor of Neurology at Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, becoming the Bullard Professor in 1999. He moved to Boston Children’s Hospital in 2006, becoming Chief of Genetics, now the Division of Genetics and Genomics. He has been an HHMI Investigator since 2002, and was director of the Harvard-MIT combined MD-PhD training program from 2003-2007. Read full bio >

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