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DESCRIPTION:Please join ɬŔď·¬ Research + Innovation for a joint 2023 Gaird
 ner National Program Lecture featuring two Canada Gairdner International A
 ward winners Professor Lynne E. Maquat (2015) and Dr. Demis Hassabis (2023
 ). The lecture will include a Q&A period with the Gairdner laureates and w
 ill be moderated by Martha Crago\, Vice-Principal\, Research + Innovation.
  A cocktail reception will follow.\n\nMonday\, October 23\, 2023 | 2:30 p.
 m. to 4:30 p.m.\n\nJeanne Timmins Amphitheatre | The Neuro (Montreal Neuro
 logical Institute-Hospital)\n\n3801 University Street\n	Montreal\, QC H3A 2
 B4\n\nClick here to register\n\nSpace is limited and seats will be availab
 le on a first-come\, first-served basis. \n\nCLICK HERE TO VIEW THE LIVEST
 REAM \n\n\nAbout the Speakers\n\n\n	\n\n	Professor Lynne E. Maquat\n\n	J. Low
 ell Orbison Endowed Chair\; Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics\; Profe
 ssor of Oncology\, School of Medicine and Dentistry\; Director\, Center fo
 r RNA Biology: From Genome to Therapeutics\; and Chair of Graduate Women i
 n Science\, University of Rochester.\n\n	Winner of the 2015 Canada Gairdner
  International Award for the discovery of the mechanism that destroys muta
 nt messenger RNAs in human cells\, nonsense-mediated mRNA decay\, which is
  critically important in both normal and disease states.\n\n	Professor Maqu
 at is known for her mammalian-cells studies of nonsense-mediated messenger
  RNA decay\, which she first reported in 1981 through studies of the hemol
 ytic anemia bo-thalassemia and from which she subsequently discovered the 
 pioneer round of translation\, the exon-junction complex (EJC)\, and how t
 he EJC marks mRNAs for a first quality-control translation cycle that larg
 ely occurs as newly synthesized messenger RNAs enter the cytoplasm. She co
 ntinues to make seminal contributions on mechanisms of NMD and another pat
 hway she discovered and named Staufen-mediated mRNA decay (SMD).\n\n	Profes
 sor Maquat is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advanc
 ement of Science (2006)\, an elected Member of the American Academy of Art
 s and Sciences (2006) and the National Academy of Sciences (2011)\, and a 
 Batsheva de Rothschild Fellow of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humani
 ties (2012). Professor Maquat was awarded the William C. Rose Award from t
 he American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (2014) for rese
 arch and mentoring\, in particular advocacy for women in science.\n\n\n\n	
 \n\n	Dr. Demis Hassabis\n\n	Founder & CEO\, Google DeepMind\; AlphaFold Proj
 ect Lead\n\n	Winner of the 2023 Canada Gairdner International Award for dev
 eloping AlphaFold\, which has been heralded as an AI-based solution to the
  50-year grand challenge of protein structure prediction and has culminate
 d in the release of the most accurate and complete picture of the structur
 e of the human proteome\, with enormous potential to accelerate biological
  and medical research.\n\n	Demis Hassabis is the Founder and CEO of DeepMin
 d\, the world’s leading AI research company\, and now a part of Alphabet. 
 Founded in 2010\, DeepMind has been at the forefront of the field ever sin
 ce\, producing landmark research breakthroughs such as AlphaGo\, the first
  program to beat the world champion at the complex game of Go\, and AlphaF
 old\, which was heralded as a solution to the 50-year grand challenge of p
 rotein folding.\n\n	His work has been cited over 100\,000 times and has bee
 n featured in Science’s top 10 Breakthroughs of the Year on 4 separate occ
 asions. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engin
 eering. In 2017 he featured in the Time 100 list of most influential peopl
 e\, and in 2018 he was awarded a CBE.\n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n\nAbout the Gair
 dner Foundation\n\nThe Gairdner Foundation\, established in 1957\, is dedi
 cated to fulfilling James A. Gairdner’s vision to recognize major research
  contributions to the treatment of disease and alleviation of human suffer
 ing. Through annual prestigious Canada Gairdner Awards\, the Gairdner Foun
 dation celebrates the world’s most creative and accomplished researchers w
 hose work is improving the health and well-being of people around the worl
 d.\n\n\n \n\n\n
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