The Student Research Forum
Each year the Graduate Student Council sponsors the Student Research Forum (SRF). A two-day interactive event, this year's SRF will be held on April 9-10, 2009. It will showcase research conducted by students from the schools of medicine, nursing, allied health, and graduate studies. In addition to the student presentations, the SRF features the extremely popular A.L Chapman Keynote Research Lecture as well as a workshop focused on the professional development of attendees.
2009 SRF A.L. Chapman Keynote Research Lecture
Dr.
Martin Pera, Ph.D., currently serves as professor and director
of The Eli and Edythe Broad Institute for Regenerative Medicine and
Stem Cell Research at the University of Southern California Keck School
of Medicine. Dr. Pera’s work on human teratocarcinomas
in the 1980s led to the first reported isolation and characterization
of human pluripotent stem cells. This pioneering work paved the
way for the multitude of research that has since taken place on human
embryonic stem cells.
Dr. Pera is now internationally recognized as an expert in the biology of human stem cells and therapeutic cloning. He continues to lead an impressive research program focused on the isolation and characterization of pluripotent stem cells and the extrinsic factors that govern their self-renewal and early lineage specification. Dr. Pera has an exceptional publication history, with numerous articles appearing in top-tier journals as well as continuous grant funding from the National Institutes of Health, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
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The A.L. Chapman Lecture series was created in honor of A.L.
Chapman, Professor Emeritus of Anatomy & Cell Biology and
Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Emeritus.