The J. Walter Juckett Distinguished Lecture Series at the University of Vermont Cancer Center hosted Phillip Sharp, Ph.D., Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for Cancer Research (now the Koch Institute), for a September 14, 2015 lecture that took place in Davis Auditorium at 4 p.m.

Sharp’s pivotal work in the late 1970s provided the first look at the concept of “discontinuous genes” in mammalian cells. The discovery changed our understanding of gene structure and earned Dr. Sharp the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the Royal Society, UK. The Sharp Lab today is focused on the biology and technology of small RNAs and other types of non-coding RNAs

Titled “The roles of non-coding RNA in cancer,” Sharp’s lecture is open to the UVM community and other academic partners in the region. Refreshments will be served.

For more information about the event please contact Charles Brooks.