Each year the winners of the Warren Alpert Foundation Prize are recognized at a symposium hosted by Harvard Medical School.

Congratulations 2011 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize recipients Alain F. Carpentier, MD, PhD and Robert S. Langer, ScD

From Drug Delivery to Tissue Engineering:
Bioengineering and its Impact on Human Health

This year's Symposium took place on Thursday, October 6, 2011.

Opening Remarks
Jeffrey S. Flier, MD, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Harvard University

Award Lectures

Bioengineering and Its Impact on Cardiac Surgery
Alain F. Carpentier, MD, PhD, Chief of Cardiovascular Surgery, Hôptial Européen Georges-Pompidou

Biomaterials and Biotechnology: From the Development of Controlled Drug Delivery Systems to the Foundation of Tissue Engineering
Robert S. Langer Jr., ScD, David H. Koch Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Invited Lectures

Moderated by
Don Ingber, MD, PhD, Director, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering

Infection-Mimicking Polymers as a Cancer Vaccine
David J. Mooney, PhD, School of Applied Engineering and Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University

Cancer Nanotechnology to Hepatic Tissue Engineering
Sangeeta Bhatia, MD, PhD, Health Sciences and Technology and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

DNA Nanostructures as Building Blocks for Future Therapeutics
William Shih, PhD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, and Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University

Closing Remarks
Jeffrey S. Flier, MD, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Harvard University

Video is available from last year's program, honoring Howard Green, MD:

Welcome
Jeffrey S. Flier, MD, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
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Opening Remarks
David T. Scadden, MD, Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital
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Therapy with Cultured Cells, Looking Back
Howard Green, MD, the George Higginson Professor of Cell Biology at HMS and winner of the 2010 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize for developing methodologies for the expansion and differentiation of human keratinocyte stem cells for permanent skin restoration in victims of extensive burns
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Skin Stem Cells and Morphogenesis
Elaine Fuchs, PhD, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Rockefeller University
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Disease Modeling with Pluripotent Stem Cells
George Q. Daley, MD, PhD, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, HMS, Children’s Hospital Boston and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
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Understanding Cellular Reprogramming
Konrad Hochedlinger, PhD, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital
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Reflections on Embryonic Stem Cells
Howard Green, MD
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