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The Paul D. Bartlett, Sr. Lecture is presented in association with the Yale Club of Kansas City, the Harvard-Radcliffe Club of Kansas City, and the Princeton Alumni Association of Greater Kansas City.
In this talk by Yale professor Mark Saltzman, we will learn about the role of biomedical engineering in creating medicines of the future. Over the past two years, for example, we have seen the introduction of nanoparticle vaccines that were rapidly developed from concept to testing to deployment. But even more is on the horizon: nanoparticle-based treatments for brain tumors, targeted correction of genetic diseases, long-lasting safe prevention of UV-mediated DNA skin damage, antibody-mediated targeting of inflammation, and many other promising developments.
Registration will open on September 8, 2022.
This program will be presented in-person at the Linda Hall Library. If you'd prefer to watch the program from the comfort of home, you can register to watch the livestream by following this link: https://bartlettlecturevirtualevent.splashthat.com
W. Mark Saltzman is an engineer and educator. His research in the fields of drug delivery, biomaterials, nanobiotechnology, and tissue engineering is described in over 300 research papers and patents. He is the author of the textbooks Biomedical Engineering (Second Edition, 2015), Tissue Engineering (2004) and Drug Delivery (2001).
Dr. Saltzman earned degrees in chemical engineering (BS from Iowa State University, MS from MIT) and medical engineering (PhD from MIT). He served on the faculty at Johns Hopkins, Cornell, and Yale, where he has been the Goizueta Foundation Professor since 2002. He was named the founding chair of the Yale’s Department of Biomedical Engineering in 2003, and served in that role until 2015.
Dr. Saltzman was the immediate past Head of Jonathan Edwards College, one of the 14 residential colleges at Yale, where he lived and oversaw the social and intellectual life of a community of some 450 undergraduate students and associated fellows.
The annual Paul D. Bartlett, Sr. Lecture was established in 2003 to bring the finest university professors to speak on subjects related to the Linda Hall Library´s collections.
Paul D. Bartlett, Sr. was the first chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Linda Hall Library. Under his leadership the Halls’ bequest for the creation of a public library in Kansas City was used to establish this library devoted to science, engineering and technology. Mr. Bartlett served on the Board until his death in 1964.
The lectures are presented by the Linda Hall Library in association with the Harvard-Radcliffe Club of Kansas City, the Princeton Alumni Association of Greater Kansas City, and the Yale Club of Kansas City.
Parking is free in the Library parking lot and along the west side of Holmes Street between 51st and 52nd streets. The main entrance to the Library grounds is on Cherry Street. The Linda Hall Library is not affiliated with the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Parking in all UMKC lots is by permit or meter.
- Baylis, Françoise. Altered Inheritance: CRISPR and the Ethics of Human Genome Editing. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2019.
- Goldfield, Eugene Curtis. Bioinspired Devices: Emulating Nature’s Assembly and Repair Process. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2018.
- Hockfield, Susan. The Age of Living Machines: How Biology Will Build the Next Technology Revolution. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2019.
