Great Minds Gather to Fete One of Their Own
Jefferson's Kimmel Cancer Center Honors Hilary Koprowski, MD

Some of the world's preeminent scientists will participate in a symposium honoring Hilary Koprowski, MD, on the occasion of his birthday. The symposium will take place on Thursday, December 5, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., in the Connelly Conference Hall, Bluemle Building. Dr. Koprowski is Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Jefferson Medical College and an internationally renowned virologist who developed vaccines for polio and rabies.

Symposium presenters include:

• Dr. Martin Kaplan, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, who will present "Moral Choices in Science and Technology"
• Dr. Donald Gilden, University of Colorado, Denver, who will present "New Strategies to Identify an Antigen and Sequences Unique to Multiple Sclerosis"
• Dr. Erling Norrby, Karolinski Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, who will present "Fin de Siecle Biomedical Research and the Advance into the Coming Century"
• Dr. Stanley Prusiner, University of California, San Francisco, who will present "Prions, Prions, Prions"
• Dr. Robert Gallo, University of Maryland, Baltimore, who will present "Recent Discoveries on New Biological Approaches to the Control of HIV"
• Dr. Peter Vogt, Scripps Research Institute, LaJolla, California, will present "Explaining Phenotypes: The Challenge of the Downstream"
• Dr. Carlo Croce, Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University, who will present "Genetics of Human Cancer"
• Dr. Fritz Melchers, Basel Institute for Immunology, Basel, Switzerland, who will present "The Seven Tests of a Lymphocyte"
• Dr. Abner Notkins, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, who will present "IA-2 and IA-2B, Members of the Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase Family, Are Major Autoantigens in Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Millitus: Predicting Clinical Disease"

All members of the Jefferson community are invited to honor Dr. Koprowski by attending the symposium, organized by Carlo M. Croce, MD, Professor and Chairman of the Department Microbiology and Immunology, Director of the Kimmel Cancer Institute.

For additional information, please call Suzanne Jones or Andrea Goodstein-Curtis at 3-4761.