Rendezvous with Maestros, Dr. Britton Chance, Dr. Oliver Smithies and Dr. Nobuyo Maeda, in Lecture Hall No. 3, College of Medicine, NCKU from 9:00 to 10:00 A.M., October 20th 2008
In the coming open discussion with the title “Seize Your Great Chance with the World’s Top Academicians!”, you will have a once in a lifetime opportunity to witness the dream combination of three extraordinary scientists—Dr. Britton Chance, member of National Academy of Science, USA, Dr. Oliver Smithies, one of the 2007 Nobel Laureates in Medicine and Dr. Nobuyo Maeda, Robert H. Wagner Distinguished Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in the same room with you. When great minds meet, it will be a definitive uplifting symposium experience.
This great event is made possible by the Office of Research and Development and the Institute of Innovative and Advanced Studies at NCKU. The gathering is open to all interested audience. It is scheduled from 9:00 to 10:00 am on October 20th 2008, in the Lecture Hall No. 3 of the College of Medicine. It is advised to enter the venue before 8:50 am.
Dr. Britton Chance was born in 1913. He is the Eldridge Reeves Johnson University Professor Emeritus of Biophysics, Physical Chemistry, and Radiologic Physics at University of Pennsylvania. He received his BS in 1935, MS in 1936 and PhD in physical chemistry in 1940, all from Penn. Because of war, he went to University of Cambridge to study and received another PhD in biology and physiology. His main research interest is the study of the basic theory of photon migration through tissues, the use of picosecond pulsed and high frequency modulation of near infrared (NIR) light in human brain, breast and muscle, to characterize tissue optical properties, and the use of imaging systems to detect breast tumor; hemorrhage deep within tissues; and human brain function in cognitive activity.
Dr. Chance has made important contributions in the identification and functioning of enzyme-substrate compounds, magnetic resonance spectroscopy in humans, the mathematics of the inverse problem, RF electronics, and light transport in highly scattering media, breast cancer diagnostics, and muscle dynamics. He transformed the field of biomedical optics, and developed spectroscopy as a noninvasive analytical tool for clinical diagnosis.
While on the United States Yacht team in 1952 for the Helsinki Olympics, Dr. Chance won a gold medal. The brave, exploratory, passionate, philanthropic, intuitive and diplomatic “sailor” spirit is still and even more augmented in Dr. Chance nowadays.
Dr. Chance has published 4,000 papers and has been cited more than 10,000 times. He is a member the US National Academy of Sciences, and the Royal Society of London. He has also received the US National Medal of Science, the Pennsylvania Award for Excellence in Life Sciences, and the APS Benjamin Franklin Medal for Distinguished Achievement in the Sciences.
Dr. Oliver Smithies was born in England in 1925, received his PhD. Degree from the Oxford University in 1951. From 1953 to 1960, Smithies worked in the Connaught Medical Research Laboratory, University of Toronto, Canada. He worked at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1960-1988. Since 1988, Dr. Smithies has been designated an Excellence Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Dr. Smithies’work has advanced research in cystic fibrosis and could possibly have applications in other human diseases. Along with gel electrophoresis, he developed gene targeting, a method of creating mice with more human-like characteristics for use in research.
In 2002, Dr. Smithies worked along with his wife, Dr. Nobuyo Maeda, in studying high blood pressure using genetically altered mice. As of today, he still works in his lab seven days a week.
In 2007, Dr. Smithies was announced as co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Mario Capecchi of the University of Utah and Martin Evans of Cardiff University “for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells.”
For more information please visit the website:
http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re
Contact person: Miss Grace Cheng
Institute of Innovations and Advanced Studies
Office of Research and Development
National Cheng Kung University
Tel：(06) 2757575 ext 50926
E-mail：kaicheng@mail.ncku.edu.tw
This great event is made possible by the Office of Research and Development and the Institute of Innovative and Advanced Studies at NCKU. The gathering is open to all interested audience. It is scheduled from 9:00 to 10:00 am on October 20th 2008, in the Lecture Hall No. 3 of the College of Medicine. It is advised to enter the venue before 8:50 am.
Dr. Britton Chance was born in 1913. He is the Eldridge Reeves Johnson University Professor Emeritus of Biophysics, Physical Chemistry, and Radiologic Physics at University of Pennsylvania. He received his BS in 1935, MS in 1936 and PhD in physical chemistry in 1940, all from Penn. Because of war, he went to University of Cambridge to study and received another PhD in biology and physiology. His main research interest is the study of the basic theory of photon migration through tissues, the use of picosecond pulsed and high frequency modulation of near infrared (NIR) light in human brain, breast and muscle, to characterize tissue optical properties, and the use of imaging systems to detect breast tumor; hemorrhage deep within tissues; and human brain function in cognitive activity.
Dr. Chance has made important contributions in the identification and functioning of enzyme-substrate compounds, magnetic resonance spectroscopy in humans, the mathematics of the inverse problem, RF electronics, and light transport in highly scattering media, breast cancer diagnostics, and muscle dynamics. He transformed the field of biomedical optics, and developed spectroscopy as a noninvasive analytical tool for clinical diagnosis.
While on the United States Yacht team in 1952 for the Helsinki Olympics, Dr. Chance won a gold medal. The brave, exploratory, passionate, philanthropic, intuitive and diplomatic “sailor” spirit is still and even more augmented in Dr. Chance nowadays.
Dr. Chance has published 4,000 papers and has been cited more than 10,000 times. He is a member the US National Academy of Sciences, and the Royal Society of London. He has also received the US National Medal of Science, the Pennsylvania Award for Excellence in Life Sciences, and the APS Benjamin Franklin Medal for Distinguished Achievement in the Sciences.
Dr. Oliver Smithies was born in England in 1925, received his PhD. Degree from the Oxford University in 1951. From 1953 to 1960, Smithies worked in the Connaught Medical Research Laboratory, University of Toronto, Canada. He worked at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1960-1988. Since 1988, Dr. Smithies has been designated an Excellence Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Dr. Smithies’work has advanced research in cystic fibrosis and could possibly have applications in other human diseases. Along with gel electrophoresis, he developed gene targeting, a method of creating mice with more human-like characteristics for use in research.
In 2002, Dr. Smithies worked along with his wife, Dr. Nobuyo Maeda, in studying high blood pressure using genetically altered mice. As of today, he still works in his lab seven days a week.
In 2007, Dr. Smithies was announced as co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Mario Capecchi of the University of Utah and Martin Evans of Cardiff University “for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells.”
For more information please visit the website:
http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re
Contact person: Miss Grace Cheng
Institute of Innovations and Advanced Studies
Office of Research and Development
National Cheng Kung University
Tel：(06) 2757575 ext 50926
E-mail：kaicheng@mail.ncku.edu.tw
Provider:
新聞中心
Date:
2008-10-16
