Tuesday, October 03, 2006
Corcoran Lecture focuses on stem cell research
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Embryonic stem cell research will be the focus of the 2006 Corcoran Lecture at Indiana University School of Medicine-Evansville. George Q. Daley, M.D., Ph.D., a nationally-recognized researcher, Harvard professor, physician, and author, will present “Stem Cells: Biology to Ethics” at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, October 24, in Rice Library Room 0017 (the lower level auditorium ). He also will speak at an invitation-only luncheon with local medical and health professionals, and lecture to a class of medical students that afternoon. An associate professor of biological chemistry and molecular pharmacology at Harvard Medical School, Daley is board certified in internal medicine and hematology and a physician in pediatric hematology/oncology at Children’s Hospital Boston, the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. In 2005, he was invited to give testimony before a U.S. Senate subcommittee on his work on human embryonic stem cells, which have the potential to differentiate into all other cell types. “My research is focused on using embryonic stem cells and adult stem cells to study blood development, and to develop new treatments for leukemia, and genetic diseases like immune deficiency, sickle cell anemia, thalassemia, and Fanconi’s anemia,” he said. “I am also clinically active as a hematologist at Children’s Hospital, where I see first-hand the pain and suffering inflicted by these diseases on children and their families. My career is dedicated to making a difference in their lives through research and patient care.” A graduate of MIT and Harvard Medical School, Daley has been elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation, and has received research awards from the National Institutes of Health, Harvard Medical School, the New England Cancer Society, the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, the Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr., Foundation and the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of America. He is the recipient of the inaugural NIH Directors’ Pioneer Award, a five-year unrestricted grant to pursue highly innovative research. IU School of Medicine-Evansville sponsors the annual Patrick J.V. and Margaret B. Corcoran Lecture in memory of its founding director, the late Patrick J.V. Corcoran, M.D., and his wife, Margaret B. Corcoran, a nurse, who established an endowment to provide medical lectures to the Evansville community and scholarships to area medical students. Corcoran was a professor of medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine and assistant dean from 1971 to 1983. For more information, contact the IU School of Medicine-Evansville at 812/465-1040. |
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