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November 13, 2003

Nobel Laureate to Speak at Biomedical Symposium

EVANSTON, Ill. --- Nobel Laureate Paul Greengard will deliver the keynote address at a special public symposium, “Signaling: From Cells to Systems,” Friday, Nov. 14, celebrating the dedication of the Arthur and Gladys Pancoe-Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Life Sciences Pavilion at Northwestern University. The dedication ceremony will follow.

The free symposium, to be held from 8:15 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the pavilion’s Abbott Laboratories Auditorium, will feature distinguished guest speakers including Teresa Woodruff, associate professor of neurobiology and physiology at Northwestern. Eight of the 11 speakers are Northwestern alumni.

Greengard, a neurobiologist at The Rockefeller University who received the 2000 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his discovery of how dopamine and other transmitters in the brain exert their action in the nervous system, will speak from 3:15 to 4 p.m. on “Signal Integration in the Brain.”

Topics of the sessions preceding Greengard’s address are as follows: Session one, 8:30 to 10:30 a.m., “Signaling and the Control of Gene Expression;” session two, 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., “Cell and Molecular Biology of Macromolecular Complexes;” and session three, 1:30 to 3 p.m., “Systems and Integrative Biology.”

The Pancoe-ENH dedication ceremony and reception will be held at 4:15 p.m. on the building’s second floor, concluding the day’s events.

Because seating is limited in the auditorium, the entire symposium will be simulcast live to the fourth floor conference room in the Center for Nanofabrication and Molecular Self-Assembly, 2190 Campus Drive, Evanston. In addition, the keynote address will be simulcast live to Lecture Room 2 in the Technological Institute, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston.