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Posted 9-14-00
CLEVELAND -- A nationally known geneticist will speak at Case Western Reserve University as part of a new lecture series designed to focus on entrepreneurship in engineering. David Botstein, chairman of the Department of Genetics at the Stanford University School of Medicine, will present "Academic and Industrial Science in the Era of Genomics" at 4 p.m. Monday, September 25 in Strosacker Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public, but registration is required either by fax at 216-368-6939 or online at http://www.morgenthalerlecture.org. A reception in Tomlinson Gallery will follow the lecture.
Botstein also will participate in a morning panel discussion on issues, opportunities, and problems in commercializing biomedical research. The event begins at 10 a.m. Monday, September 25 in room E501 at the School of Medicine. Seating is limited. Hunt Willard, chairman of the Department of Genetics and vice president of research at University Hospital of Cleveland, will moderate the panel discussion. The other panelists will be Gil VanBokkelen, president of Athersys Inc.; Jerry Silver, professor of neuroscience; Richard Hanson, professor of biochemistry; Kevin Cooper, chairman of dermatology; Arthur Brown, director of the Rammelkamp Center for Education and Research at MetroHealth Medical Center; and Hunter Peckham, professor of biomedical engineering and founder of NeuroControl Corp.
Botstein will launch the Morgenthaler E4I Annual Lectureship (Engineering Educational Excellence in Entrepreneurship and Innovation). David Morgenthaler, chairman and founder of Morgenthaler Ventures, is the sponsor. The company is a national venture capital firm with offices in Cleveland, Boston, and Silicon Valley, managing nearly a billion dollars in capital and focused on helping entrepreneurs build growth companies.
"Dr. Botstein's lecture will illustrate that synergy can exist between academic and entrepreneurial activities, and motivate faculty and students to view their research results with an eye toward commercialization. We expect it to encourage an attitude of entrepreneurship on campus, and present the challenges and rewards of new ventures and licensing technology to third parties," said Robert Savinell, director of the Ernest B. Yeager Center for Electrochemical Science and associate dean of the Case School of Engineering.
Botstein's research has centered on genetics, especially the use of genetic methods to understand biological functions. His current research activities include studies of yeast genetics and cell biology, linkage mapping of human genes predisposing to manic-depressive illness, hypertension and other complex diseases, and the development and maintenance (with J. Michael Cherry) of the Saccharomyces Genome Database on the World Wide Web (http://www-genome.stanford.edu).
Botstein was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 1981 and to the Institute of Medicine in 1993. He has won several awards, notably the Eli Lilly Award in Microbiology (1978), the Genetics Society of America Medal (1988), and the Allen Award of the American Society of Human Genetics (1989). He served on many policy-making and peer-review committees, most recently the NAS/NRC study on the Human Genome Project (1987-88), the NIH Program Advisory Panel on the Human Genome (1989-90), and the Advisory Council of the National Center for Human Genome Research (1990-95).