The 36th Bampton Lectures will be delivered by Irving Weissman, the Virginia and D. K. Ludwig Professor for Clinical Investigation in Cancer Research and Director of the Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine Institute at Stanford University. He is also the 2008 Koch Prize Winner for advances in the biomedical sciences.

Co-Sponsored with the Department of Religion and the Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life at Columbia University.

• “Adult Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine,” Wednesday, January 21, 5-7 pm
  [podcast]http://ircpl.org/audio/IRCPL-Weissman1.mp3[/podcast]

• “Cancer and Leukemia Stem Cells: A New Paradigm for Research, Diagnosis and Therapy,” Thursday, January 22, 5-7 pm
  [podcast]http://ircpl.org/audio/IRCPL-Weissman2.mp3[/podcast]

• “Embryonic and Pluripotent Stem Cells: Science and Medicine meet Politics and Religious Organizations,” Tuesday, January 27, 5-7 pm
  [podcast]http://ircpl.org/audio/IRCPL-Weissman3.mp3[/podcast]

• “Self and Nonself: Co-evolution of Stem Cells and Immunity and Speculations on Stem Cells and the Mind,” Thursday, January 29, 5-7 pm