Program on SCIENCE & DEMOCRACY Science, Technology & Society LECTURE SERIES 2013 HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL HARVARD UNIVERSITY SIR PAUL NURSE President, Royal Society of London; Director, UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation; Nobel Laureate MAKING SCIENCE WORK WITH PANELISTS WEDNESDAY Eric Lander Broad Institute and Biology, MIT February 6, 2013 Lisa Randall 5:00-7:00pm Physics, Harvard University Pfizer Lecture Hall Charles Rosenberg Mallinckrodt Chemistry Lab B23 History of Science, Harvard University 12 Oxford Street MODERATED BY Sheila Jasanoff Harvard University Harvard Kennedy School CO-SPONSORED BY Program on Harvard University Harvard School of Harvard University Center for the Engineering and Graduate School Science, Technology & Society Environment Applied Sciences of Design HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL HARVARD UNIVERSITY http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/ Program on SCIENCE & DEMOCRACY Science, Technology & Society LECTURE SERIES 2013 HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL HARVARD UNIVERSITY Sir Paul Nurse is a British geneticist and cell biologist. He became the 60th President of The Royal Society in December 2010. As a geneticist, he studied the mechanisms which control the division and shape of cells. In 2001, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the key protein regulators of the cell cycle. He has been Professor of Microbiology at the University of Oxford, CEO of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund and Cancer Research UK, and President of The Rockefeller University, New York. Since 2011, he has been Director and CEO of the Francis Crick Institute in London. Nurse has received the Royal Society’s Copley Medal (2005), the French Legion d’Honneur (2002), and is a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006). He was knighted in 1999 for services in cancer research and cell biology. For more information on the Science & Democracy Lecture Series, please visit the HKS STS website at http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/ USA USA Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138 02138 Massachusetts, Massachusetts, Cambridge, Cambridge, 79 JFK Street Street JFK JFK 79 79 Center for the Environment the for Center School School Kennedy Kennedy Harvard Harvard Harvard University Harvard Society Society & & Technology Technology Science, Science, on on Program Program Program on Science, Technology & Society HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL HARVARD UNIVERSITY http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/.