The Dean's Lecture Series 2003-2004

The Rudin Distinguished Visiting Professorship Lecture

Established at Columbia University in 1977 by a grant from the Samuel and May Rudin Foundation, the Samuel Rudin Distinguished Visiting Professorship program today serves as an important vehicle for the exchange of scientific knowledge among Columbia University, the greater New York City community, and academic institutions from around the world.

Through formal lectures, small informal seminars, and individual teaching sessions, Rudin professors—who are carefully chosen from other distinguished institutions in the biomedical sciences to spend an academic year at Columbia—interact with university scholars from all health-related faculties. Columbia students and faculty are given a significant opportunity to expand their existing medical and scientific knowledge, while Rudin professors are able to enrich their own intellectual and professional lives through mentoring, teaching, and collaborative activities. In the process, Columbia not only serves a catalyst for increased academic cooperation, but also helps to forge a foundation for the future of science and medicine at the intersection of the scientific disciplines

Since the inception of the Rudin visiting professorship program, Columbia has welcomed into the Rudin professorship program nearly 50 leading scholars, scientists, researchers, and medical practitioners, representing thirty-plus world-renowned scientific and medical institutions and nine countries worldwide.

PAST RUDIN VISITING PROFESSORS

1977-78
Bruce N. Ames
University of California at Berkeley
Francis D. Moore, Harvard University
Baruj Benacerraf, Harvard University
David Mechanic, University of Wisconsin

1978-79
Efraim Racker, Cornell University
Leo Sachs, Weizmann Institute
Rozella M. Schlotfeldt, Case Western Reserve University
Paul Lacy, Washington University, St. Louis

1979-80
Charles Scriver, McGill University
Sir Richard Doll, Oxford University
Norman Geschwind, Harvard University

1980-81
Harold M. Weintraub, Univ. of Washington

1982-83
Peter J. Morris, Oxford University
Keith R. Yamamoto, University of California at San Francisco

1983-84
Philippe Coumel, Hôpital Lariboisière, Paris
Joseph Martin, Harvard Medical School

1984-85
Kurt Wüthrich, Eidgenossische Technische, Hoschule, Zurich
Daniel E. Koshland, Jr., University of California at Berkeley

1985-86
Tom Maniatis, Harvard University
Alexander Rich, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

1986-87
Alexander Borbély, University of Zurich
Piet Borst, The Netherlands Cancer Institute

1987-88
Sir Roy York Calne, University of Cambridge

1988-89
Friedrich Bonhoeffer, Max Planck Institut,Tubingen, West Germany
Marc W. Kirschner, University of California at Berkeley

1989-90
Michael J. Berridge, University of Cambridge
Ira Herskowitz, University of California at San Francisco

1990-91
Geoffrey Thorburn, Monash University, Clayton, Australia
Jonathan Beckwith, Harvard University

1991-92
Jonathan Mann, Harvard Institute of Public Health, International AIDS Center, Boston, MA
Sydney Brenner, Molecular Genetics Unit, Cambridge, England

1992-93
Olikoye Ransome-Kuti, Federal Republic of Nigeria
Thomas E. Starzl, University of Pittsburgh

1993-94
C. Thomas Caskey, Baylor College of Medicine
Michael E. Phelps, UCLA School of Medicine

1994-95
Solomon H. Snyder, Johns Hopkins University
Alan Fersht, Cambridge University

1995-96
Laurie H. Glimcher, Harvard University
Francis S. Collins, National Institutes of Health

1997-98
James E. Rothman, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Institute

1998-99
Robert W. Mahley, University of California at San Francisco
Charles Weissman, University of Surich, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, England

1999-00
Donald A. Henderson, Johns Hopkins University

2000-01
Richard Losick, Ph.D., Harvard University

2001-02
Eric S. Lander, Ph.D., Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2002-03
Dr. Roderick Mackinnon, Rockefeller University