Kuggie Vallee Distinguished Lectures and Workshops

• Lectures: September 24, 10:00am-12:00pm (Open to the public, no registration required)

• Workshops: September 25, 9:30am-2:30pm (Registration is required to attend the September 25 workshops and lunch. Please click here to register.)

2024 Kuggie Vallee Distinguished Lecturers:

• Michelle Monje, MD, PhD, HHMI, Stanford University
• Erin Schuman, PhD, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research

Workshop Speakers:

• Kara McKinley, PhD, HHMI, Harvard University
• Susan S. Silbey, PhD, Leon and Anne Goldberg Professor of Humanities, Sociology and Anthropology, MIT 
• Stacie Weninger, PhD, President, F-Prime Biomedical Research Initiative

Program

Tuesday, September 24  - Distinguished Lectures

     10:00-11:00am: Michelle Monje

     11:00am-12:00pm: Erin Schuman

Wednesday, September 25 -  Workshops

     8:30-9:30am: Breakfast

     9:30-10:30am: Susan S. Silbey

     10:30-11:00am: Kara McKinley

     11:00-11:15am: Break

     11:15-11:45am: Stacie Weninger

     11:45am-12:45pm: Lunch

     1:00-2:30pm: Panel Discussion moderated by Elly Nedivi

     Panelists: Kara McKinley, Michelle Monje, Erin Schuman, Susan S. Silbey, Stacie Weninger

     2:30pm: Reception

In honor of the Foundation’s co-founder, Kuggie Vallee, and in order to inspire young women to continue a career in science, the Vallee Foundation has established a prestigious annual series of Kuggie Vallee Distinguished Lectures. These Lectures are designed to highlight major successes made by women in the biomedical sciences and are given at institutions around the world where Vallee Visiting Professors and Young Investigator Awardees are affiliated. The Kuggie Vallee Distinguished Lecturer gives a public lecture about her own science and, over a period of several days, meets more informally or in workshops with other faculty at the host institute to talk about women in science and career building.

Organizing Committee: Professors Li-Huei Tsai, Elly Nedivi, Myriam Heiman, Gloria Choi, and Sara Prescott