Please join us for the 2022 Cosloy-Blank Lecture Series, to be presented by Dr. Titia de Lange, Leon Hess Professor at The Rockefeller University. 

Presenting her lecture: "Telomere shortening: why and how?"

ABOUT DISTINGUISHED SCIENTIST, DR. TITIA DE LANGE

Dr. Titia de Lange received training in molecular biology and biochemistry at the University of Amsterdam. As an undergraduate, she did research in Richard Flavell’s lab at the MRC in Mill Hill, UK. She was a graduate student in Piet Borst’s lab in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Amsterdam and moved with Borst to the Dutch Cancer Center where she first developed an interest in telomeres. After receiving her PhD in 1985, de Lange joined Harold Varmus at UCSF for postdoctoral studies. With Varmus, she isolated human telomeric DNA and was the first to show that human telomeres shorten during tumorigenesis. In 1990, she moved to the Rockefeller University to take a position as a University Fellow and was appointed as Assistant Professor in 1991. She was promoted to Associate Professor in 1994 and to Professor in 1997. She currently is the Leon Hess Professor and the Director of the Anderson Center for Cancer Research at the Rockefeller University.

She is a member of EMBO, the US National Academy of Science, both Dutch Royal Academies, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the US National Academy of Medicine. She is a foreign member of the Royal Society of London and received honorary degrees from the University of Utrecht, the University of Chicago, and the University of Groningen.

Her awards include the inaugural Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research in 2001 (with Bill Kaelin, Steve Elledge, and Xioadong Wang), the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center Prize, the Judd award from MSKCC, the AACR’s Charlotte Friend and G.H.A. Clowes Awards, the 2011 Vilcek Prize, the 2012 Vanderbilt Prize, the 2012 Dr. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics, the inaugural Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences in 2013, the 2014 Canada Gairdner International Award, and the 2018 Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award.

ABOUT THE PROFESSOR SHARON COSLOY - EDWARD BLANK DISTINGUISHED SCIENTIST LECTURESHIP

Dr. Sharon Cosloy was a member of the City College Biology faculty for 27 years and served as Chair of the Department for six years. She was a beloved mentor, educator, wife and mother and a passionate investigator of life and science. The Professor Sharon Cosloy - Edward Blank Family Distinguished Scientist Lectureship is regarded as the preeminent scientific lecture on campus. The City College of New York is grateful to Edward Blank and his family for their generous support

This event will take place in the ASRC Auditorium and be broadcast via Zoom, with refreshments and networking in the ASRC café following the lecture.

An RSVP will be required to join for food/refreshments and the lecture.

To register:

https://cosloylecture2022.eventbrite.com​

For further questions, please contact:

Jason Redman
jredman@ccny.cuny.edu