NCRC 2023
January 20 -22, 2023
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Keynote Speakers
Cora Dvorkin, Ph.D.
Dr. Cora Dvorkin is an Associate Professor at the Department of Physics at Harvard University. As a
theoretical cosmologist, her research centers on the nature of dark matter and neutrinos as well as early-universe physics. Prior to her faculty position at Harvard, Dr. Dvorkin was a NASA Hubble Fellow and an Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC) Fellow at the Center for Astrophysics at Harvard.
William Shih, Ph.D.
Dr. William Shih is a Professor in the Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School and the Department of Cancer Biology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. His current research aims to leverage Synthetic
Biology approaches to aid in the development of DNA nanostructures capable of self-assembling
to be used in biomedical contexts. His work has received recognition from numerous institutions, including the NIH, Blavatnik Institute, Foresight Institute, and ISNSCE.
Gabriela Soto Lavega, Ph.D.
Dr. Gabriela Soto Laveaga is a professor of the history of science and for the Study of Mexico at Harvard University. Currently, her academic interests center on medical professionals and social change, the production and circulation of knowledge between Mexico and India, and 20th century science and development projects. She has written two award-winning books and has received numerous fellowships, including the Fulbright, Mellon, and Ford Fellowships. Before arriving at Harvard, she earned her BA from California State University and her MA and PhD from the University of California, San Diego.
Emery Brown, M.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Emery N. Brown is the Warren M. Zapol Professor of Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School and an anesthesiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). Dr. Brown received his B.A. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard College, his M.A. and Ph.D. in statistics from Harvard University, and his M.D. from Harvard Medical School. Dr. Brown is the only person to hold endowed professorships at Harvard and MIT.
Dr. Brown is an anesthesiologist-statistician whose experimental research has made important contributions towards understanding the neuroscience of how anesthetics act in the brain. Dr. Brown also served on President Obama’s BRAIN Initiative Working Group, and is the first African American, statistician, and anesthesiologist to be elected to all three branches of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
MATTHEW MEYERSON, M.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Matthew Meyerson is the director of cancer genomics at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, professor of pathology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) and Harvard Medical School,
director of the Center for Cancer Genome Discovery at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and a principal investigator in The Cancer Genome Atlas project (TCGA) of the National Institutes of Health. Currently, his laboratory aims to utilize genomic approaches to elucidate the genetic changes that give rise to cancer and the role of infectious agents in causing diseases with unknown causes.
Dr. Meyerson has received numerous honors for his work, including the Paul Marks Prize in Cancer Research, the Caine Holter Hope Now award from Uniting Against Lung Cancer, the and the AACR Team Science Award. He received his BA, MD, and PhD from Harvard University.
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