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Nobel laureate to speak on ‘new avenues to health’

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NEW DELHI: American biologist and co-recipient of the 1975 Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine, David Baltimore will deliver a public lecture here on ‘New avenues to health’ on Monday.

Union Science and Technology Minister, Kapil Sibal, will introduce him to the audience. The programme, which is open to all, will be held at the Teen Murti Auditorium.

The lecture has been organised by Cell Press, the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based publisher of prominent biomedical journals and TnQ Books and Journals, the Chennai-based company, which supplies pre-press design and software solutions to publishers of scientific, technical and medical books and journals.

Dr. Baltimore, who received the Nobel Prize along with Renato Dulbecco and Howard M. Temin for their discovery concerning the interaction between tumour viruses and the genetic material of the cell, is currently President Emeritus and Robert A. Millikan Professor of Biology at the California Institute of Technology, where he served as President from 1997 to 2006.

He is slated to take over as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science on February 21.

The programme is part of a three-lecture series. The other two parts will be held in Bangalore and Chennai respectively. In Bangalore, it will be conducted in two parts – one on January 16 on microRNAs in inflammation and cancer and the other on January 17 on new avenues to health. Both modules will be held at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore.

In Chennai, the lecture will be held on January 18 at the Central Leather Research Institute on new avenues to health.

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