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Warren Alpert Prize Symposium: mRNA Vaccine Design and Delivery to Immune Cells

October 6th, 2022 @ 2:00 pm - 5:30 pm

The Warren Alpert Foundation Prize 
honors
Eric Huang
Katalin Karikó
Uğur Şahin
Özlem Türeci
Drew Weissman

The 2022 Prize is being awarded for pioneering work leading to the discovery and development of mRNA vaccines.

The Warren Alpert Foundation and Harvard Medical School invite you to the award symposium:

mRNA Vaccine Design and Delivery to Immune Cells

Opening Remarks
George Q. Daley, MD, PhD

Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Harvard University
Caroline Shields Walker Professor of Medicine

Moderated by
Shiv Pillai, MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine and Health Sciences and Technology
Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard

Featured Speakers
Eric Huang, PhD

General Manager and Chief Scientific Officer, Moderna Genomics

Katalin Karikó, PhD
Senior Vice President, BioNTech SE, and Adjunct Professor of Neurosurgery, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

Uğur Şahin, MD
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, BioNTech SE, and Helmholtz Professor for mRNA Cancer Immunotherapies, German Cancer Research Center in the Helmholtz Institute Mainz, and Professor, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

Özlem Türeci, MD
Co-founder and Chief Medical Officer, BioNTech SE, and Helmholtz Professor for Personalized Cancer Immunotherapies, German Cancer Research Center in the Helmholtz Institute Mainz

Drew Weissman, MD, PhD
Roberts Family Professor in Vaccine Research, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

The symposium will also be live streamed at:

https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_a78abPasS_667YuVoq944Q
For complete information visit: http://warrenalpert.org/symposium

Details

Date: October 6th, 2022
Time: 2:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Calendars: Public Events, School-wide Events, University-wide Events
Event types: Conferences and Symposia, Lectures / Seminars / Forums

Venue

Longwood Campus
Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, New Research Building
Virtual In Person