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Scientists, Religious Leaders at Obama Stem Cell Event. U of Chicago's Dr Select a STNG publication or site GO Search » • Subscribe 44°F Go • Easy Pay Rain • Customer Service Site STNG • Email newsletters suntimes.com Member of the Sun-Times News Group Traffic • Weather: Home | News | Commentary | Sports | Business | Entertainment | Classifieds | Columnists | Lifestyles | Ebert | Search | Archives | Blogs | RSS Lynn Sweet The scoop from Washington Scientists, religious leaders at Obama stem cell SEARCH LYNN SWEET event. U of Chicago's Dr. Janet Rowley, CURE's Lynn Sweet is a Search columnist and the Susan Axelrod at White House Washington Bureau Chief for By Lynn Sweet on March 9, 2009 11:22 AM | Permalink | Comments (1) the Chicago MOST POPULAR Sun-Times. THE WHITE HOUSE 1. Obama mortgage Office of the Press Secretary foreclosure rescue plan SWEET LINKS will allow some struggling ______________________________________________________________________________________________________homeowners refinance ____________ABC News (The Note) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE options Annenberg Political Fact Check March 9, 2009 2. 98 Archpundit 3. Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, Participants and Attendees at President Barack Obama's Rahm's brother, tapped for Atlantic (Marc Ambinder) Signing of Stem Cell Executive Order and Scientific Integrity Presidential Memorandum White House health care Breitbart.com (Andrew Breitbart) Washington, DC policy advisor spot. - Capitolfax (Rich Miller) March 9, 2009 4. Rev. Lowery Inauguration benediction. Transcript. CBS News (Elections) 5. Top ethics group calls on Attached please find fact sheets describing the impact of the executive order and CBS News (Horserace) presidential memorandum that the President will sign today. Senate to expel Burris 6. First Lady Michelle Center for Responsive Politics Obama lunches with Team Listed below are the individuals who will attend today's event. Chicago Sun-Times (Sweet MO at Five Guys in blog) DuPont Circle Stage Participants Chicago Tribune (The Swamp) 7. 38 8. Obama's Valentine's Day CNN (Political Ticker) Energy Secretary Stephen Chu dinner at Table Fifty-Two CQ MoneyLine Dr. Peter Agre restaurant in Chicago Dr. Patricia Bath 9. Burris underplayed CQ Politics Dr. H. Robert Horvitz affidavit to Reid, Durbin. CSPAN Dr. Janet Rowley 10. More Michelle Obama CSPAN (Media) Dr. Harold Varmus staff appointments CSPAN (Policy Organizations) Dr. Peter Agre Drudge Agre is a medical doctor, professor, molecular biologist and winner of the 2003 Nobel GET THE SWEET WIDGET Prize in Chemistry. He received his B.A. from Augsburg College in Minneapolis, Fox News (Politics) Minnesota and his M.D. in 1974 from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Fox News (Vlogs) Baltimore, Maryland. From 1975 to 1978 he completed his clinical training in Internal The Hill (Sweet column) Medicine at Case Western Reserve University Hospitals in Cleveland. He went on to serve as the Vice Chancellor for science and technology at Duke University Medical Hotline on Call Center in Durham, NC. Agre then became director at Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Howard Wolfson Institute (JHMRI) and joined the faculty of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Huffingtonpost Health in 2008. In 2009, Agre was inducted as the 163rd president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the nation's largest scientific Huffingtonpost Politics organization. Illinois Campaign for Political Reform Dr. Patricia Bath Jake Tapper (ABC) Bath, an ophthalmologist from New York, was living in Los Angeles when she received her Monroe Anderson first patent, becoming the first African American female doctor to patent a medical invention. Patricia Bath's 1988 patent (#4,744,360) was for a method for removing MSNBC First Read cataract lenses that transformed eye surgery by using a laser device making the New York Times Politics procedure more accurate. Bath graduated from the Howard University School of Medicine Newsweek (Politics) in 1968 and completed specialty training in ophthalmology and corneal transplant at both New York University and Columbia University. In 1975, Bath became the first African- The Page (Mark Halperin) American woman surgeon at the UCLA Medical Center and the first woman to be on the Phil Singer faculty of the UCLA Jules Stein Eye Institute. She is the founder and first president of the Politico American Institute for the Prevention of Blindness. Patricia Bath was elected to Hunter College Hall of Fame in 1988 and elected as Howard University Pioneer in Academic Politico (Ben Smith) Medicine in 1993. Politico (Jonathan Martin) Pollster.com (Mark Blumenthal) Dr. H. Robert Horvitz Horvitz is a biologist currently at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he is So-called 'Austin Mayor' Professor of Biology and a member of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research. He is Sunlight Foundation also an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. In 2000 he received the MORE WIDGETS Time (Swampland) Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University. Horvitz shared the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Sydney Brenner and John Sulston. Horvitz did his USA Today (Politics) undergraduate studies at MIT in 1968. He obtained his PhD in Biology from Harvard Wall Street Journal (Elections) University in 1974. He currently serves on the board of trustees for Society for Science The Truth-O-Meter Says: Washington Post (Chris Cillzza) and the Public. Republican leaders said "no" Washington Post (Dan Dr. Janet Rowley to "tax cuts for Froomkin) 95% of working Rowley is a human geneticist and the first scientist to identify a chromosomal translocation Americans." — Details Washington Post (Mary Ann as the cause of leukemia and other cancers. Rowley attended the University of Chicago, Americans United for Akers) where she earned a Bachelor of Philosophy degree in 1944, a Bachelor of Science degree Change Washington Post (Politics) in 1946, and doctor of medicine degree in 1948. After earning her medical license in 1951, Rowley worked as attending physician at the Infant and Prenatal Clinics in the Department Washington Post (The Trail) of Public Health, Montgomery County, Maryland. In 1955 she took up a research post at "The average Wilshire & Washington Chicago's Dr. Julian Levinson Foundation where she remained until 1961. In 1962 Rowley CEO makes returned to the University of Chicago as a research associate in the Department of $10,000 more every day ... than PHOTO GALLERIES Hematology. She became an associate professor in 1969 and a full professor in 1977. In what the average Details 1984, Rowley was made the Blum-Riese Distinguished Service Professor at the University worker makes every year." — Obama National Headquarters of Chicago, a position she still holds, as well as serving as the interim deputy dean for Joe Biden Obama in Springfield science since 2001. In 1998, she was one of three scientists awarded the prestigious "Teddy Roosevelt Obama One Lasker Award for and received the National Medal of Science in 1999. first called for Obama in Iowa (health care) Dr. Harold Varmus reform nearly a Obama in New Hampshire century ago." — Details In 1957, he enrolled at Amherst College and later graduated with a B.A. in English Hillary debuts in Iowa literature. He went on to earn a graduate degree in English at Harvard University in 1962 Barack Obama State of the Union day and that same year, entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University. Varmus joined the Public Health Service at the National Institutes of Health in 1968. In 1970, he began post-doctoral studies in Bishop's lab at University of California, OBAMA IN AFRICA San Francisco. There, he and Bishop performed the research that would win them the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He became a faculty member at UCSF in Read the full report View videos, photos 1972 and a professor in 1979. From 1993 to 1999, he served as Director of the National Institutes of Health. Since 2000, he has served as President of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. He is also a recipient of 2001 National Medal of Science. ABOUT THIS ENTRY Varmus currently serves as Co-Chair of the Presidents Council of Advisors on Science This page contains a single and Technology (PCAST). entry by Lynn Sweet published on March 9, 2009 11:22 AM. Confirmed Attendees: Rahm makes it on NBC's "Saturday Night Live." was the United States Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) previous entry in this blog. United States Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) Obama reverses eight years of United States Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) Bush stem cell research ban. United States Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) Transcript. is the next entry in Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) this blog. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) Find recent content on the main United States Representative Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) index or look in the archives to United States Representative Lois Capps (D-CA) find all content. 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Michael Bishop [Physiology 1989] Nobel Laureate Linda Buck [Physiology 2004] Amy Comstock Rick, Coalition for the Advancement of Medical Research; Parkinson's Action Network, President and CEO George Daley, International Society for Stem Cell Research, Associate in Medicine Susan Solomon, New York Stem Cell Foundation, CEO and Co-Founder Kevin Wilson, American Society for Cell Biology, Director Sean Tipton, American Society for Reproductive Medicine, Director of Public Affairs Warren Wollschlager Jr., Interstate Alliance on Stem Cell Research, Founding Chair and James Thomson, University of Wisconsin, Regenerative Biology at the Morgridge Institute Political I.Q. of Research, Director changes the way John Gearhart, University of Penn.
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