Gairdner Foundation Lecture: Using Physics to Capture the Dance of Protein Molecules in Health and Disease
Event Date:
Thursday, March 5, 2020 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm EST
Event Location:
ATAC 5036
About the Speaker
Lewis Edward Kay is a Canadian molecular geneticist, chemist, and biochemist at the University of Toronto and the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Alberta in 1983 and a PhD at Yale University in 1988, before he went to the National Institutes of Health as a postdoctoral fellow. Dr. Kay is one the most cited chemists, especially in the field of nuclear magnetic resonance (MNR) spectroscopy, capable of restoring function to paralyzed limbs.