Warren Alpert Foundation Prize Symposium — From Discovery to Therapy: Gene-Based Treatments for Sickle Cell Disease and Beta-Thalassemia
Joseph B. Martin Conference Center
Harvard Medical School
77 Avenue Louis Pasteur
Boston
Thu., Oct. 1, 2026, 1:30 – 5:30 p.m. 
The Warren Alpert Foundation and Harvard Medical School invite you to the 2026 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize Symposium honoring Stuart Orkin, MD, Swee Lay Thein, MD, Daniel Bauer, MD, PhD, Vijay Sankaran, MD, PhD, and John Tisdale, MD, for enabling curative genetic therapies for individuals with the major hemoglobin disorders, sickle cell disease and beta-thalassemia.
In addition to presentations by the awardees, Jennifer Doudna, PhD, 2020 Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry, will deliver a keynote presentation.
Gazette Classification: Award Ceremonies, Conferences, Health Sciences, Lecture, Science, Special Events
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Medical School
Speaker(s): Daniel E. Bauer, MD, PhD, Donald S. Fredrickson, MD Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; Director of the Gene Therapy Program, Boston Children’s Hospital, Stuart H. Orkin, MD, David G. Nathan Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Vijay G. Sankaran, PhD, MD, Jan Ellen Paradise, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School;Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Swee Lay Thein, MD, Senior Investigator and Chief of the Sickle Cell Branch of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, John Tisdale, MD, Senior Investigator and Chief of the Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics Branch of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Keynote: Jennifer Doudna, PhD, Founder, Innovative Genomics Institute Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Cost: Free
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Harvard Key Required: No
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