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What others say about us

It's a welcome break from readings and reinforces learning by utilizing both the aural and visual senses.

Ms Donna Slawsky

Instructor, School of Continuing Education, Columbia University

Often times in research we need a quick education in a new area and this series provides a great way to get background information.

Mr Jeremy Keirsey

Graduate Research Associate, Ohio State University

Excellent reviews of current science! The range of lengths of the talks are just right for busy professionals like myself.

Ms Janet Tien

Senior Scientific Supervisor, Genentech

These are wonderful tools for learning for both myself and my students.

Prof Susan Percival

Professor, University of Florida

What's especially good is that varied perspectives from different scientists are included, and that the information given is so up-to-date.

Prof Denise Sheer

Professor of Human Genetics, Queen Mary University of London

My students have also found these talks excellent in preparing for tutorial classes.

Dr Finola Kerrigan

Lecturer in Marketing, King's College London

These talks are excellent and make an extremely useful addition for teaching both undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Dr Frances Fuller-Pace

Senior Lecturer, University of Dundee

I found the collection of talks to be a very useful source of information provided by high-caliber well-recognized experts..

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VP Molecular Discovery Research, GlaxoSmithKline

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Prof. Ana Domingos

University of Oxford, UK

Ana I. Domingos is a Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Oxford. Her laboratory discovered that the sympathetic neuro-adipose axis mediates the lipolytic effect of leptin (Cell, 2015). They provided the first visualization of adipose sympathetic neurons and demonstrated that they are necessary and sufficien… read more

Prof. Thomas Malek

University of Miami, USA

Dr. Thomas Malek is Professor and Chair in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. He has a long-standing interest in IL-2R signaling and regulatory T cell development and function. His group first showed the critical reliance of regulatory T cells for IL-2 a… read more

Prof. Gillian Bentley

Durham University, UK

Gillian Bentley is a reproductive ecologist and a Professor of Anthropology at Durham University, UK. The majority of her work has focused on how early life development (during childhood) affects later adult reproductive physiology and function using a model of migrants who move from one environment to another. She al… read more

Prof. David McDermott

Harvard Medical School, USA

Dr. McDermott has been involved in clinical and translational research in kidney cancer for more than 25 years. He runs a large academic practice that focuses on patients with kidney cancer and melanoma. He is Chief of Medical Oncology and Director of the Cutaneous and Immuno-Oncology Programs at Beth Israel Deaconess… read more

Prof. Luke Harmon

University of Idaho, USA

Professor Harmon has a Ph.D. in Evolution, Ecology, and Population Biology from Washington University, 2005. His academic journey began with a B.S. in Zoology, with honours, summa cum laude, and a minor in Mathematics from Iowa State University in 1998. His research endeavours focus on pioneering new comparative metho… read more

Prof. Zoe Draelos

Duke University, USA

Zoe Diana Draelos, MD, is a research and clinical board-certified dermatologist and a Fellow of the American Academy of Dermatology. She is in solo private practice in High Point, North Carolina, and a Consulting Professor of Dermatology at Duke University. In 1988, she founded Dermatology Consulting Services, PLLC, t… read more

Prof. Helen Nicholson

University of Otago, New Zealand

Helen Nicholson attended the University of Bristol where she obtained BSc Hons (1976), MB ChB (1979). She trained for surgery before returning to University of Bristol to obtain a MD (1986). She is now a Professor of Anatomy at the University of Otago and currently the Acting Vice Chancellor. She possesses expertise i… read more

Prof. Mark Cookson

NIH, USA

Dr. Mark Cookson is a cell biologist who focuses on the effects of mutations associated with neurodegeneration on proteins and cells. He was born in the North of England, studied at Salford University then worked in Newcastle before joining the Mayo clinic in Jacksonville Florida. Since 2002, he has been part of intra… read more

Prof. Ravi Prasad

University of California, Davis, USA

Ravi Prasad earned his BS, MA, and PhD degrees in Psychology. He is a psychologist by training and currently Clinical Professor and Director of Behavioral Health in the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at the University of California, Davis School of Medicine. His clinical work focuses primarily on evalu… read more

Prof. Barbara Funnell

University of Toronto, Canada

Barbara Funnell is Professor Emerita in the Department of Molecular Genetics at the University of Toronto. She received her graduate training at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and postdoctoral training at Stanford University under the supervision of Arthur Kornberg. She studies plasmid partition in Escherichia c… read more

Prof. Aaron D. Gitler

Stanford University School of Medicine, USA

Aaron D. Gitler is a professor in the department of genetics at Stanford University. He received his undergraduate training at Penn State University, a Ph.D. in cell and molecular biology at University of Pennsylvania, and completed postdoctoral training with Dr. Susan Lindquist at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedic… read more

Prof. Robert Zorec

University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Robert Zorec is Professor of Pathophysiology at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Medicine, a Member of Academia Europaea (London), Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (est. 1693 as Academia Operosorum), The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, and has been a Member of the Committee for Advanced Therapie… read more

Prof. George Chaconas

University of Calgary, Canada

George Chaconas obtained his Ph.D. in the Division of Medical Biochemistry at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada and did postdoctoral work Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York. He subsequently took a faculty position in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Western Ontario. His laboratory … read more

Prof. Steve Humphries

University College London, UK

Steve Humphries is a world-renowned expert in cardiovascular genetics, a field in which he has worked for over 40 years. He worked at University College London from 1991, where he was the British Heart Foundation Professor of Cardiovascular Genetics, retiring in September 2015 and is the BHF UCL Emeritus Professor of … read more

Prof. Harald Renz

Philipps-University Marburg, Germany

Prof. Harald Renz is director and chairman of the Institute of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiochemistry of the Philipps-University Marburg, Germany. He holds this position since 1999. From 2005 to 2014 he coordinated the inter-regional Research Consortium of Allergies and Asthma, which is funded by the German Researc… read more

Prof. Robert P. Cowan

Stanford University School of Medicine, USA

Prof. Cowan is a clinician/scientist with more than 30 years experience in the diagnosis, treatment, and research relating to migraine and other headache syndromes. He founded the headache programs at Both Keck/USC and Stanford University and has published over 200 articles, abstracts, and posters on topics related to… read more

Prof. Amy C. Edmondson

Harvard Business School, USA

Amy C. Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School. Prof. Edmondson earned an A.B. in Engineering and Design, an A.M. in Psychology, and a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior, all from Harvard University. She has published over seventy research articles and three books, foc… read more

Prof. Cameron Hepburn

University of Oxford, UK

Cameron Hepburn is Director of the Smith School and an expert in environmental, resource and energy economics. He is a Professor of Environmental Economics at the Smith School and at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, and is also Professorial Research Fellow at the Grantham Research I… read more

Ms. Kate Raworth

Senior Research Associate, Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University, UK

Kate Raworth is a Senior Research Associate at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute, where she teaches on the Masters in Environmental Change and Management. She is also Professor of Practice at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. Her internationally acclaimed framework of Doughnut Economics has… read more

Prof. Robert Grant

Bocconi University, Italy

Robert Grant is Emeritus Professor of Management at Bocconi University, Milan, Italy. He previously held faculty positions at Georgetown University, London Business School, City University, California Polytechnic, University of British Columbia, and St. Andrews University. He has been a visiting professor at UCLA, UC … read more

Prof. Leigh Thompson

Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, USA

Leigh Thompson is the J. Jay Gerber Professor of Dispute Resolution & Organizations in the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. She is the director of the Kellogg Team and Group Research Center, the Leading High Impact Teams Executive program, High Performance Negotiation Skills Executive program a… read more

Prof. Emeritus Angus Deaton

Princeton University, USA

Angus Deaton was born in Edinburgh, educated at Hawick High School (at the same time as 2017 chemistry Nobel Laureate Richard Henderson), at Fettes, and at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, where he was an Exhibitioner in Mathematics. After a brief and undistinguished career in the Bank of England, he returned to academ… read more

Dr. Stephen Roach

Yale University, USA

Stephen Roach is a Senior Fellow at Yale University’s Jackson Institute of Global Affairs and a Senior Lecturer at Yale’s School of Management. He was formerly Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia and the firm’s Chief Economist for the bulk of his 30-year career at Morgan Stanley, heading up a highly regarded team of econo… read more

Prof. Alex Edmans

London Business School, UK

Alex Edmans is Professor of Finance at London Business School. Alex has a PhD from MIT as a Fulbright Scholar, and was previously a tenured professor at Wharton and an investment banker at Morgan Stanley. Alex has spoken at the World Economic Forum in Davos, testified in the UK Parliament, and given the TED talk “What… read more

Prof. Edward Glaeser

Harvard University, USA

Edward Glaeser is the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics and the Chairman of the Department of Economics at Harvard University, where he has taught microeconomic theory, and occasionally urban and public economics, since 1992. He has served as Director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government, a… read more

Dr. Ruth Wageman

Harvard University, USA

Ruth Wageman is Associate Faculty in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. She specializes in the field of Organizational Behavior, studying and teaching the design and leadership of task performing teams - especially the particular challenges faced by leadership teams. Dr. Wageman received her Ph.D. fro… read more

Dr. Garrick Hileman

University of Cambridge, UK

Garrick Hileman is best known for his research on monetary and distributed systems innovation, particularly cryptocurrencies and distributed ledger technology (blockchain). He is regularly invited to share his perspective with the media, including the BBC, CNBC, FT, WSJ, Sky News, and NPR. He was recently ranked as on… read more

Prof. Henry Chesbrough

Luiss Guido Carli University, Italy

Henry William Chesbrough is an American organizational theorist, adjunct professor and the faculty director of the Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley and Maire Tecnimont Chair of Open Innovation at Luiss. He is known for coining the term Ope… read more

Dr. Robert Cialdini

Influence at Work, USA

Dr Robert Cialdini is Regents’ Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Marketing at Arizona State University. Dr. Cialdini’s books are published in 44 languages and have sold over 7 million copies. He is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author. He has been elected to membership in The Nati… read more

Dr. William Janeway

University of Cambridge and Warburg Pincus, UK

William H. Janeway has lived a double life of “theorist-practitioner,” according to the legendary economist Hyman Minsky, who first applied that term to him twenty-five years ago. In his role as “practitioner,” Bill Janeway has been an active growth equity investor for more than 40 years. He is a senior advisor and ma… read more

Prof. Oliver Hart

Harvard University, USA

Oliver Hart is currently the Andrew E. Furer Professor of Economics at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1993. Hart works mainly on contract theory, the theory of the firm, corporate finance, and law and economics. His research centers on the roles that ownership structure and contractual arrangements play… read more

Prof. Linda A. Hill

Harvard Business School, USA

Linda A. Hill is the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and chair of the Leadership Initiative. Prof. Hill is regarded as one of the top experts on leadership and innovation, and is the co-author of Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation (Har… read more

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