ROMA (ITALPRESS) – Professor William G. Kaelin Jr, Professor of Medicine at Harvard University and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, entitled “The VHL tumor suppressor: insights into oxygen sensing, carcino, immunity and drugging the undruggable”, will be held on Monday, October 27 at 14.30 p.m. in the Auditorium of the See of the Catholic University of Rome.
The event, promoted by the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery within the cycle “Lettures of Faculties” and the University Polyclinic Foundation Agostino Gemelli IRCCS, will offer the academic and scientific community a moment of reflection on the most recent frontiers of biomedical research.
Professor Kaelin was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2019 with Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza for the discoveries on the mechanisms with which cells adapt to oxygen variations, a fundamental process for cell survival and understanding of numerous pathologies. “The presence of Professor Kaelin at our University – underlines Professor Alessandro Sgambato, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery – is an occasion of the highest educational and scientific value for our academic community. His lesson is an invitation to reflect on how basic research, guided by curiosity and rigour, can result in clinical progress and in benefit to patients. It is an honor to welcome a Nobel Prize that fully embodies the spirit of Catholicism: to unite scientific knowledge to the ethical and social responsibility of medicine.”.
“The meeting with Professor Kaelin – says Professor Antonio Gasbarrini, Scientific Director of the University Polyclinic Foundation Agostino Gemelli IRCCS – is a moment of great inspiration for doctors and researchers. His discovery of cell mechanisms of oxygen response reminds us that every scientific advance arises from the courage to question nature with humility and method. The collaboration between the Catholic University and the Policlinico Gemelli finds in events like this its highest expression: promoting a science that, starting from the laboratory, always returns to the patient’s bed, generating knowledge, care and hope.”.
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