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You are invited to attend the Inaugural Paolo Sassone-Corsi Lectureship

Presented by Estée Lauder
Honoring Paolo Sassone-Corsi's legacy in epigenetics and metabolism

Featuring

Ronald M. Evans, PhD
Professor and Director of the Gene Expression Laboratory
March of Dimes Chair in Developmental and Molecular Biology
Salk Institute for Biological Studies

“Nuclear Receptors - Innovations in Diabetes and Cancer”

Thursday, October 19, 2023
Reception at 6:00 p.m.
Presentation at 6:45 p.m.

Special presentation by Estée Lauder – awarding the first
Estée Lauder Epigenetics Fellowship Award

Arnold & Mabel Beckman Center
of the National Academies of Sciences & Engineering
100 Academy Way, Irvine, CA 92617

RSVP

For more information, visit the Center for Epigenetics & Metabolism website.

Co-Organized by UCI Center for Epigenetics & Metabolism and UCI Department of Biological Chemistry

Ronald M. Evans, PhD, is a professor and head of the Gene Expression Laboratory and the March of Dimes Chair in Molecular and Developmental Biology at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Evans is an authority on hormones, both their normal activities and their roles in disease. He is known for the discovery of a nuclear receptor superfamily for steroids, which are primary targets in the treatment of many cancers including: leukemia, lymphoma, breast cancer, prostate cancer, and pancreatic cancer. Evans is a recipient of numerous honors, including the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award and the Wolf Prize in Medicine. Consistent with the broad impact of his work, he is listed by the Institute of Scientific Information as one of the most cited scientists of the past decade.

About the Paolo Sassone-Corsi Lectureship
Paolo Sassone-Corsi, PhD (1956-2020), was UCI Donald Bren Professor of Biological Chemistry and director of the campus's Center for Epigenetics and Metabolism. During his significant scientific career, he made seminal discoveries in the field of gene expression and signal transduction in the 1980s and later on circadian clocks and metabolism. Sassone-Corsi was regarded as a true pioneer by the scientific community. The Paolo Sassone-Corsi Lectureship features a renowned epigenetics researcher and brings together outstanding scientists and students to carry on the conversations and discoveries that inspired him.