Harvard Club of Washington, DC

An Evening with Michael Gottesman NIH Deputy Director for Intramural Research

Progress and Pitfalls in the War Against Cancer $45. Members and their Guests/$70 Nonmembers (A Joint MIT and Harvard Club Event)

This first ever joint meeting of the Harvard and MIT Clubs of DC echoes the many joint activities now afoot in Cambridge, Massachusetts. There is the Harvard MIT edX online learning venture. The Harvard MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology offers a joint MD-Ph.D. degree. The Harvard Kennedy School of Government and the MIT Sloan School of Management offer a dual MBA from Sloan and MPA/MPP from Kennedy. There is a Joint Research Grants Program in Basic Neuroscience. Now would be a good time to meet some of the alums from the other end of Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge.

Our keynote speaker is Michael Gottesman, who directs the entire Intramural Research Program in basic and medical research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), located at several campuses across the country as well as in Bethesda, MD. He obtained his BA from Harvard College, and his MD from Harvard Medical School in 1970. He did his internship and residency at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital at the Harvard Medical School. After a few years as a research associate at the NIH, he took a faculty position at the Harvard Medical School, but returned to join the National Cancer Institute at the NIH in 1976. He has received numerous award and honors, including the Health and Human Services Secretary’s Award for Distinguished Service. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. As the Chief of the Laboratory of Cell Biology at the NIH, his research has focused on how cancer cells elude chemotherapy. He has over 500 publications in basic research on cancer.  He will speak to us on the latest progress and pitfalls in the war on cancer.

The cost of dinner includes wine and beer. 

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DIRECTIONS AND PARKING

This event will be held at the Hogan Lovells Law Offices, in the Fulbright Room, at 555 13th St NW # 800E, Washington, DC 20004. The building is on 13th Street between E and F Street, right next door to the Warner Theatre. There are many parking garages in the area. If going by metro, the building sits right over the Metro Center stop; take the metro exit at 12th and F Street. Please report to the receptionist at the Hogan desk in the lobby, and you will be escorted to the offices upstairs.

The building is handicapped accessible, with elevators available. 

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