Oliver Smithies, D.Phil., winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, will deliver the 2009 Earl H. Morris Endowed Lecture at Wright State University on Friday, July 10. His presentation, entitled “60 years as a bench scientist,” will take place in Gandhi Auditorium in White Hall on the WSU campus and will begin at 10:30 a.m. The lecture, sponsored by the WSU Boonshoft School of Medicine Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, is free and open to the public. See more information.
The Earl H. Morris Endowed Lectureship was established by Herbert and Marion Morris to honor Herbert’s father, Earl H. Morris, M.D. Dr. Earl Morris was born in Bellbrook, Ohio, received his M.D. from the University of Cincinnati Medical School and practiced family medicine in the Dayton area for more than 50 years. Mariana Morris, Ph.D., professor and chair of pharmacology and toxicology and assistant vice president for graduate programs with the medical school, noted that the endowed lecture series has brought some of the world’s leading scientists and physicians to Wright State, a tribute to Earl Morris’ lifelong dedication to the science of medicine.
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