The Harvey Society was founded in 1905 by thirteen New York City scientists and physicians with the purpose of forging a closer relationship between the purely practical side of medicine and the results of laboratory investigation. The Society disseminates scientific knowledge in selected areas of anatomy, physiology, pathology, bacteriology, pharmacology, and physiological and pathological chemistry through public lectures, which are published annually. Topics covered in this series edition include sensing and signaling DNA damage; mammalian stem cells; nature, nurture, and genetic scripts; P53, mdm2, and cancer; viral membrane fusion and its inhibition; and genomics approaches to photoreceptor development and disease.

Author Biography

Gregory L. Verdine, Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Chemistry and Chemical Biology and Molecular and Cellualr Biology, Harvard University Susan K. Dutcher, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine Tom A. Rapoport, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School Michael E. Greenberg, Children's Hospital Boston, Program in Neurobiology and Harvard Medical School, Department of Neurobiology Kathryn V. Anderon, Developmental Biology Program, Sloan-Kettering Institute Leonard I. Zon, Grousbeck Professor of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital Boston, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Michael Karin, Laboratory of Gene Regulation and Signal Transduction, Departments of Pharmacology and Pathology, Cancer Center, School of Medicine, University of California at San Diego