Biochemistry & Biophysics 9th Annual Gerald R. Fink '62 Bioscience Symposium 2017

Amherst at the Forefront of Access to Care and the Treatment of Cancer; In Honor of Rice Cowan Leach ’62

The Gerald R. Fink '62 Bioscience Symposium for 2017 will be held on Thursday, January 19 from 3:00p.m.-9:00p.m. in the Cole Assembly Room of Converse Hall. This is the ninth annual symposium and is sponsored by the Amherst College Class of 1962. To register for the symposium please visit: https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/colloquia/bioscience/2017-symposiu….

The following speakers are expected:
George W. Carmany ’62, hospital chairman, health care investor and member of the Advisory Committee on Education of the Harvard Medical School.
Gerald R. Fink ’62, founding member of the Whitehead Institute and the American Cancer Society Professor of Genetics at MIT
Barry Bloom ’58, former dean, Harvard School of Public Health
Isaiah Holloway, ’17, current Amherst College undergraduate and intern at The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
David M. Lawrence ’62, former CEO, Kaiser Permanente and national health policy commentator.
Doug Lowy ’64, acting director, National Cancer Institute and keynote speaker for this symposium.
Marc Pohl ’62, Ray W. Gifford, M.D. Endowed Chair in Hypertension, former section head of Clinical Hypertension & Nephrology at the Cleveland Clinic.
Kipp Weiskopf ’07, resident physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and cancer therapy researcher.