Thursday, May 14, 2015
Registration 11:30 a.m.
Lecture Noon to 1:00 p.m.
Luncheon 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.
Caspary Auditorium, 1230 York Avenue at East 66th Street
FEATURED ROCKEFELLER SCIENTIST
Mary Jeanne Kreek, M.D.
Patrick E. and Beatrice M. Haggerty Professor
Laboratory of the Biology of Addictive Diseases
IN CONVERSATION WITH
Laura Landro
Assistant Managing Editor and Columnist
The Wall Street Journal
HOST
Marc Tessier-Lavigne, Ph.D.
President and Carson Family Professor
The Rockefeller University
UNDERSTANDING ADDICTIONS
Genes, Molecular Neurobiology, Behavior, and New Treatment Insights
As a woman who chose a career in medical research in the 1960s, Mary Jeanne Kreek, M.D. displayed a pioneering spirit. As a physician-scientist studying heroin addiction in New York at that time, she demonstrated something more—a rare commitment to help patients suffering from a condition that was considered a sign of flawed character, rather than a disease with significant biological causes. Dr. Kreek played a central role in establishing addiction studies as a vital branch of biomedical science, and she continues to provide leadership and inspiration in the field to this day.
At The Rockefeller University, Dr. Kreek conducts basic and clinical research to understand how genetic factors and non-hereditary influences, such as stress, combine to raise the risk of opiate addiction, cocaine dependency, and alcoholism. She and her colleagues also explore the connections between addiction and such conditions as depression and chronic anxiety, while providing insights that are contributing to the improvement of medical pain management.
On Thursday, May 14, The Rockefeller University will welcome esteemed journalist Laura Landro of The Wall Street Journal back to campus to interview Dr. Mary Jeanne Kreek about her trailblazing career in biomedicine and some of her latest findings in addiction research.
Mary Jeanne Kreek, an alumna of Wellesley College, earned a medical degree from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. She joined Rockefeller in 1964, as did Dr. Marie Nyswander, to work with Dr. Vincent Dole to perform the initial studies of the use of methadone in chronic management of heroin addiction. Today, Dr. Kreek heads the University’s Laboratory of the Biology of Addictive Diseases. Her many honors include a Betty Ford Award and honorary doctorates from the University of Uppsala, Tel Aviv University, and the University of Bologna. Most recently, she received the inaugural NIH/NIDA Lifetime Science Award.
Laura Landro is an assistant managing editor at The Wall Street Journal, where her column, “The Informed Patient,” appears. Author of the bestselling memoir Survivor: Taking Charge of Your Fight against Cancer, Ms. Landro is a recipient of the Gerald Loeb Award for deadline reporting and the Matrix Award from New York Women in Communications
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At the Convocation ceremony in June 2015, The Rockefeller University will honor the Women & Science Founding Chairs—Lydia Forbes, Isabel Furlaud, Nancy Kissinger, and Sydney Shuman—with the David Rockefeller Award for Extraordinary Service, the highest honor bestowed on University volunteers.
In celebration of our Founding Chairs, contributions to Partners in Discovery this year will support the creation of a Fund to Recruit Women Faculty. All new and increased gifts to the initiative will be matched by a $1.2 million challenge grant launched by our “Terrific Twelve” supporters:
Miriam Ochshorn Adelson, M.D. • Shahla and Hushang Ansary • Anne T. and Robert M. Bass • Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Forbes • Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis • Robin Chemers Neustein • David Rockefeller • Janet C. Ross • Sydney R. and Stanley S. Shuman • Simons Foundation • Marc Tessier-Lavigne, Ph.D. and Mary Hynes, Ph.D. • Lulu and Anthony Wang.
2015 WOMEN & SCIENCE COMMITTEE
Founding Chairs
Lydia A. Forbes • Isabel P. Furlaud • Nancy M. Kissinger • Sydney R. Shuman
Chairs
Judith Roth Berkowitz • Beth Kojima • Samantha Boardman Rosen, M.D. • Patricia P. Rosenwald • Lulu C. Wang
Members
Frances Beatty Adler • Holly S. Andersen, M.D. • Barbara Anderson Terry • Anne T. Bass • Mrs. Mercedes T. Bass • Ludmila S. Bidwell • Debra Black • Nancy L. Blank • Noreen Buckfire • Judith M. Carson • Daniella Lipper Coules • Caroline R. Curry • Annette de la Renta • Carol B. Einiger • Blair Pillsbury Enders • Jeanne Donovan Fisher • Muffie FitzGerald • Olivia Tournay Flatto, Ph.D. • Deban Flexner • Barrett B. Frelinghuysen • Ruth E. Gitlin • Corinne P. Greenberg • Gretchen S. Grisanti • Agnes Gund • Jean D. Hamilton • Marlene Hess • Elizabeth R. Hilpman • Kristin Hohmann • Sandra Horbach • Rebecca A. John • Ann F. Kaplan • Dr. Jane Frank Katcher • Ellen Katz • Bicky Kellner • Catherine E. Kinsey • Patricia D. Klingenstein • Teena L. Lerner, Ph.D. • Karen M. Levy • Evelyn G. Lipper, M.D. • Emily Chien Mahoney • Hillie Mahoney • Constance Marks • Pam Michaelcheck • Gigi Mortimer • Robin Chemers Neustein • Eliot C. Nolen • Trina Overlock • Virginia Pellicci, M.D. • Béatrice Philippe • Marnie S. Pillsbury • Ilona Nemeth Quasha • Courtney Smith Rae • Gail Hunt Reeke • Kimberly K. Rockefeller • Amy Falls Rogers • Janet C. Ross • Sara Lee Schupf • Casey Whalen Sellers • Geeta Sharma, M.D. • Marilyn Simons • Carla H. Skodinski • Joan S. Steinberg • Mary S. Sykes • Marcy Syms • Marica Vilcek • Sue Ann Weinberg • Cynthia M. Whitehead • Mrs. Carolyn Wiener • Silvia Zoullas