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MD/PhD Program Retreat
A highlight of the MD/PhD Program Retreat is the delivery of the Program's endowed lectureship, the Selma and Karl Folkers Lecture in Biomedical Research. Karl Folkers was one of the pioneers of vitamin research in the pre-Vioxx days of Merck ('30s). Dr. Folkers received his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1931 from the University of Wisconsin and came to Yale in 1931 where he carried out a post doc with Treat B. Johnson. While at Yale, Dr. Folkers developed an interest in pharmaceuticals and pharmaceutical chemistry that led to an appointment in the laboratories of Merck and Company in 1934. He gave Yale funds for this lectureship some years ago in remembrance of his post doc at Yale.
The Fourth Annual Selma and Karl Folkers Lecture in Biomedical
Research was given at the 2008 MD/PhD Program Retreat by Stephen
Emerson, M.D., Ph.D. Dr. Emerson received his M.D., Ph.D. from Yale
University in 1980 and is currently the President of Haverford
College. Dr. Emerson's talk was entitled, "From Dendritic Exosomes
to Stem Cells: Learning to Ask Questions, and Find New Ways to Answer.
[ Additional 2008 Retreat Photos ]
Dr. Emerson
Dean Robert Alpern, Dr. Vincent Marchesi, and Dr. James Jamieson
Dr. Emerson, Cynthia Folkers Jamieson, James D. Jamieson
Adam Frost & Robert Doms, MD, PhD ('88)
Danielle Smith & Damani Piggott, MD, PhD ('05)
Lounging at the Retreat
Fred Gorelick, MD & Juanita Merchant, MD, PhD ('84)
Michael Caplan, MD, PhD ('87), Susan Baserga, MD, PhD ('88), Peter
Glazer, MD, PhD ('87), Mark von Zastrow, MD, PhD ('87), David Frank,
MD, PhD ('86)
Dean Kedes, MD, PhD ('88), Fred Gorelick, MD
See photos from 2007 retreat
See photos from 2006 retreat
See photos from the 2005 retreat
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