2025 Joe Thorne Gilbert Lecture: Francis Collins

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Mar

2026

6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Cost: Free

In Person (view details)

Dr. Francis Collins, the physician, long-time director of the National Institutes of Health and human genome researcher, will have a fireside chat about exceptional opportunities and challenges in biomedical research.

Description

Francis Collins – the physician and geneticist who led the Human Genome Project and the National Institutes of Health – will deliver the 2025 Joe Thorne Gilbert Lecture.

Join a conversation spanning from advancing the frontiers of biomedical research to how each one of us has a stake in today’s research enterprise. Collins will highlight groundbreaking new developments in gene therapy, neuroscience and cancer research, while illuminating the dangers U.S. scientific institutions face.

Focusing on themes of truth, science, trust and faith as he does in his 2024 book The Road to Wisdom, Collins will speak from his experiences — with patients in the clinic, with scientists in the research lab and with world leaders defining our ecosystem for future discoveries — offering compelling insights about how we, as a society, can better deliver on the promise of tomorrow’s breakthroughs.

Please register to attend and secure your spot.

Questions about this event or changes to your RSVP? Please contact College of Natural Sciences events:

events@cns.utexas.edu

Location

Mulva Auditorium in Engineering Education and Research Center (EER .0904)

Audience

Current Students

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