From the first vaccines and antibiotics to new treatments for once-deadly diseases, advances in medicine have dramatically improved our lives. Yet we still face serious challenges when it comes to our health. At the University of Rochester, our researchers are on a relentless quest to understand and conquer these devastating diseases. How will we conquer disease? This is just one of the questions we asked our esteemed panel.

View highlights of the conversation featuring:

John J. Foxe, PhD
Director of the Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience

Barry J. Goldstein ’82M (MD), ’82M (PhD), ’85M (RES)
Vice President, Diabetes and Endocrinology Clinical Development Services, Covance, Inc.

Catherine K. Kuo, PhD
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

M. Kerry O’Banion, MD, PhD
Professor of Neuroscience and Neurology

Every day, Rochester luminaries and thinkers are questioning the world as we know it in the relentless quest to improve humankind.

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