Events

2025 

DATE TBD

Jeffrey M. Friedman, MD, PhD 
Marilyn M. Simpson Professor Investigator
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Rockefeller University
“TBD” 
 

2024 

November 12, 2024 

Eric Topol, MD 
Executive Vice President 
Scripps Research 
“High-Performance Medicine: The Convergence of Human and Artificial Intelligence” 
6:00pm, Rice Eccles Stadium, 4th Floor 

2023 

October 25, 2023 

David Emil Reich, PhD 
Professor of Genetics 
Harvard Medical School 
“Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past” 
6:00pm, Rice Eccles Stadium, 4th Floor 

2022 

September 21, 2022 

Consuelo H. Wilkins, MD, MSCI 
Senior Vice President 
Senior Associate Dean for Health Equity and Inclusive Excellence 
Professor of Medicine 
Vanderbilt University Medical Center 
“Transforming Science and Care Delivery to Achieve Health Equity” 
6:00pm, Alumni House 

2021 

April 28, 2021 

Nels Elde, PhD 
2020 MacArthur Fellow 
H.A. and Edna Benning Presidential Endowed Chair 
Associate Professor, Human Genetics 
“The Viruses of Our Lives: Pandemics Past, Present and Future” 
4:00pm, Hosted Virtually 
 

2020 

NO LECTURE DUE TO COVID-19 PROTOCOL 

2019 

February 28, 2019 - Benning Public Lecture 
 
Svante Pääbo, PhD 
2022 Nobel Prize Laureate 
Director 
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology 
“Archaic Genomics” 
6:00 pm, Natural History Museum of Utah 
 

2018 

March 21, 2018  
 
Jennifer Doudna, PhD 
HHMI Investigator 
Executive Director, Innovative Genomics Institute 
Li Ka Shing Chancellor's Chair 
Biomedical and Health Sciences 
Professor, Molecular & Cell Biology and Chemistry 
UC Berkeley 
“Rewriting the Language of Life: The Biology, Technology, and Ethics of DNA Editing” 
6:00 pm, Rice Eccles Stadium, 4th Floor 

2017 

March 21, 2018  
 
Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD, DLitt (Hon), FACP 
Associate Professor of Medicine 
New York University School of Medicine 
Editor-in-Chief, Bellevue Literary Review 
“What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear (and Vice Versa): The Highest Stakes in Medicine” 
6:00 pm, Rice Eccles Stadium, 4th Floor 

2016 

October 3, 2016  
 
Mary-Claire King, PhD 
American Cancer Society Professor 
Departments of Medicine (Medical Genetics) and Genome Sciences 
University of Washington School of Medicine 
“Genomic Analysis of Inherited Breast and Ovarian Cancer: From Gene Discovery to Precision Medicine and Public Health” 
6:00 pm, Rice Eccles Stadium, 4th Floor