Feb 25
HMS Event
*****We regret to inform you that the Kass Lecture, previously scheduled for February 25, 2025 at 4pm, has been cancelled for this academic year. Planning will take place to create a future event for our community to enjoy.*****
Date: Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Time: 4 - 5 p.m. (reception 5 - 6 p.m.)
Location: Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115
The Harvard Medical School Office for Faculty Affairs and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard are honored to present this year's distinguished speaker: Erin K. O'Shea, Ph.D., President of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Join us for her lecture titled ,"A Common Cause: Basic Science and Medical Progress."
The Fae Golden Kass Lectureship was established through the generosity of family and friends of Fae Golden Kass to support an annual lecture given by a woman in the medical sciences. Dr. O'Shea’s groundbreaking work exemplifies this mission, and we look forward to her insights this year.
Speaker Bio: Erin O’Shea is the first woman and the sixth president to lead the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Before becoming President, she served as HHMI’s Chief Scientific Officer for three years. Under her leadership, HHMI has increased its investments in basic biomedical research and has made it a priority to build a more open and inclusive scientific culture.
Since 2016, O’Shea has spearheaded ambitious programs to advance open access publishing, create opportunities for talented scientists of all backgrounds, and accelerate discovery. Most recently, she announced AI@HHMI, a $500 million initiative to support AI-driven research across the Institute.
A renowned biologist and former faculty member at Harvard University and the University of California, San Francisco, O’Shea is a leader in the fields of gene regulation, signal transduction, and systems biology whose research has received international recognition.
She received a PhD in chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a BS in biochemistry from Smith College. Washingtonian magazine has routinely named her one of the “most powerful women in Washington.”
