Tuesday, April 30, 2024 5:00 p.m. Pacific time UCSF’s Sandler Program for Breakthrough Biomedical Research presents the 2024 Byers Award Lecture in Basic Science. UCSF Mission Bay Campus Genentech Hall, Byers Auditorium 600 16th Street, San Francisco Featuring Person Picture Aashish Manglik, MD, PhD Person Title Associate Professor, UCSF Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care Dr. Manglik is a physician-scientist interested in understanding how the human body senses and responds to external stimuli. After finishing his medical training in 2016, Dr. Manglik began his independent research career as the first Stanford Distinguished Fellow at Stanford University School of Medicine in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology. He joined UCSF in 2017 and now focuses his research on G protein-coupled receptors to develop new medications that are more effective and have fewer side effects. Person Picture Sam Hawgood, MBBS Person Title UCSF Chancellor Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Distinguished Professor Sam Hawgood, MBBS, became UCSF’s 10th chancellor in July 2014. He previously served as dean of the UCSF School of Medicine and vice chancellor for medical affairs. In addition to his four-decade distinguished career at UCSF, he is renowned internationally for neonatology research. A native of Australia, Chancellor Hawgood earned his medical degree with first-class honors from the University of Queensland in Brisbane. He trained in pediatrics as a resident and specialized in neonatology as a fellow.
Person Picture Aashish Manglik, MD, PhD Person Title Associate Professor, UCSF Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care Dr. Manglik is a physician-scientist interested in understanding how the human body senses and responds to external stimuli. After finishing his medical training in 2016, Dr. Manglik began his independent research career as the first Stanford Distinguished Fellow at Stanford University School of Medicine in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology. He joined UCSF in 2017 and now focuses his research on G protein-coupled receptors to develop new medications that are more effective and have fewer side effects.
Person Picture Sam Hawgood, MBBS Person Title UCSF Chancellor Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Distinguished Professor Sam Hawgood, MBBS, became UCSF’s 10th chancellor in July 2014. He previously served as dean of the UCSF School of Medicine and vice chancellor for medical affairs. In addition to his four-decade distinguished career at UCSF, he is renowned internationally for neonatology research. A native of Australia, Chancellor Hawgood earned his medical degree with first-class honors from the University of Queensland in Brisbane. He trained in pediatrics as a resident and specialized in neonatology as a fellow.
