The 29th Annual Murray L. Barr Lecture

Join us on October 14, 2022 for the annual Murray L. Barr Lecture with guest speaker Dr. Christopher Walsh. Held in a hybrid format in DSB 1002 and on Zoom.

Dr. Walsh completed his PhD (in Neurobiology, with Ray Guillery, 1983) and MD (1985) at The University of Chicago, before coming to Boston for medical internship, neurology residency and chief residency at Massachusetts General Hospital. During and after residency he pursued postdoctoral training in the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School with Professor Constance Cepko. In 1993 he became Assistant Professor of Neurology at Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, becoming the Bullard Professor in 1999. He moved to Boston Children’s Hospital in 2006, becoming Chief of Genetics, now the Division of Genetics and Genomics. He has been an HHMI Investigator since 2002, and was director of the Harvard-MIT combined MD-PhD training program from 2003-2007.