Earl P. Benditt Endowed Lectureship
The Earl P. Benditt Lectureship series is dedicated to the memory and scientific legacy of Dr. Earl P. Benditt, Professor and Chair, Department of Pathology, 1957-1981.
Earl P. Benditt, M.D.
Professor and Chair, 1957-1981
Dr. Earl Benditt died on May 27, 1996. In 1986 Dr. Benditt became an Emeritus Professor after 29 years of dedicated service to the Department, having served as Chairman from 1957 to 1981. He continued to work in his laboratory and was a Distinguished Physician at the Veteran’s Administration Medical Center from 1988 to 19993. A graduate of Harvard Medical School, Dr. Benditt came to the University of Washington in 1957, after completing post-doctoral training, and joining the faculty at the University of Chicago.
As chairman of a young department, Dr. Benditt quickly moved to build a faculty primarily dedicated to research and teaching. In a few years the clinical activities of the Department were consolidated at the University Medical Center and a UW-based residency program was launched. The department flourished, incorporating and utilizing modern biological techniques to investigate the pathogenesis of human disease. A Ph.D. program in Experimental Pathology was established, which became a model for many programs in the United States and abroad.
In 1975 Dr. Benditt was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. He received the Rous Whipple Award (1980) and the Gold Headed Cane Award (1984) from the American Association of Pathologists. In 1989 he received the Distinguished Pathologist Award from the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology. He was the President of the American Society for Experimental Pathology from 1975-1976, serving on numerous study sections for the National Institute of Health as well as many committees and councils.
Dr. Benditt’s creative and critical approach to science charted the course for the development of academic pathology.
2012 Benditt Endowed Lectureship
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 4:30 PM
University of Washington, Genome Sciences Building
Foege Auditorium
Andrew Dillin, Ph.D.
Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
San Diego, CA
Humoral Control of Proteostasis and its Impact Upon Aging
Past Lectureships
March 23, 2011
Speaker: Bradley Bernstein, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Pathology
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Lecture Title: Charting Human Epigenomes and Regulation of the Non-coding Genome
June 23, 2010
Speaker: Kenneth R. Chien, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, MGH Cardiovascular Research Center
Department of Cell Biology, HMS
Harvard Stem Cell Institute
Harvard University
Lecture Title: How to Make a Heart: The Islet Heart Progenitor Story and 'Pregenerative' Medicine
January 7, 2009
Speaker: Richard P. Lifton, M.D., Ph.D.
Chairman, Department of Genetics
Sterling Professor of Genetics, Medicine and Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Yale University
Lecture Title: Insights Into Vascular Diseases and Their Treatments from Human Genetics
Date: November 30, 2007
Speaker: Gwendalyn Randolph, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Gene And Cell Medicine
Associate Professor, Center For Immunobiology
Mount Sinai Medical Center
Lecture Title: Where Do the Cells of the Atherosclerotic Plaque Come from and Where Do They Go
Date: February 22, 2006
Speaker: Napoleone Ferrara, M.D.
Genentech Fellow, Department of Molecular Oncology at Genentech, Inc.
Lecture Title: VEGF: From Bench to Bedside
Date: April 6, 2005
Speaker: Susan Lindquist, Ph.D.
Director of Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and Professor of Biology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lecture Title: Modeling Neurogeneration in Yeast
Date: May 4, 2004
Speaker: Catherine Verfaillie, M.D.
Director, Stem Cell Institute, University of Minnesota
Lecture Title: Greater Potency of Adult Stem Cells: Possible Mechanisms and Uses
Date: January 15, 2003
Speaker: Richard Klausner, M.D.
Executive Director, Global Health Program, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Lecture Title: Molecular Medicine in the Post Genome Era
Date: January 10, 2002
Speaker: David R. Cox, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Genetics, Co-director, Stanford Genome Center
Stanford University
Lecture Title: Genetics in Everyday Life
Date: January 10, 2001
Speaker: Dr. Irving L. Weissman
Stanford University
Lecture Title: No Information Available
Date: December 16, 1999
Speaker: Janet Rowley, M.D., D.Sc.(Hon.)
Blum-Riese Distinguished Service, Professor of Medicine & Molecular Genetics
University of Chicago
Lecture Title: Chromosome Translocations: Dangerous Liaisons
Date: November 17, 1998
Speaker: Zena Werb, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Anatomy
University of California, San Francisco
Lecture Title: Angiogenesis: Parallels in Development and Disease
Date: November 13, 1997
Speaker: Alfred G. Knudson, M.D., Ph.D.
Senior Member, Institute for Cancer Research, Fox Chase Center
Lecture Title: Germinal Somatic Mutations in the Origin of Cancer
Date: 1996
Speaker: Dr. John Q. Trojanowski
School Affiliation: University of Pennsylvania
Lecture Title: No information available