The lecture will describe the enormity of the US gun violence problem and the public health approach for reducing that problem. It will illustrate the public health approach, including emphasizing the importance of data and research, with examples of ways to reduce suicide and unintentional firearm deaths.
Richard Tsien, Ph.D. NYU Langone Health, Grossman School of Medicine
Genetics and Cell Biology/Physiology are both necessary to harvest the insights diseases offer for normal function -- yet their interdisciplinary linkage could be improved. As a cardiac and neuronal functionalist, I have been increasingly motivated by challenges that genetics poses. This holds for genetic studies of families in Sudden Unexpected Death in Childhood, that draw attention to proteins vital to both heart and brain and signaling from the surface membrane to subcellular organelles.
Nancy J. Cox, Ph.D. Vanderbilt University, Vanderbilt Brain Institute
Physicians rely on a variety of commonly used laboratory measurements to understand when patients are beginning to develop disease and how they are responding to disease therapies. Many of these measurements have a quite dynamic component, changing reliably as disease develops and progresses and in response to therapies. However, most laboratory values are also heritable, and a substantial fraction (about 30%) are highly heritable; about half of all heritable labs have significant differences in means and/or variances across continental genetic ancestries.
