Supported by the financial support of Dr. Robert Pritchett, husband of Paulette Pritchett, and family.
This endowed lecture series is named in honor of Dr. Paulette Shirey Pritchett. Dr. Pritchett was a highly respected, young member of the UAB Department of Pathology when she unexpectedly passed away on August 4, 1984. Dr. Pritchett was a native Alabamian who obtained her medical degree from the University of Alabama, where she was awarded the Stewart Graves Award and the William Boyd Medal for her demonstrated excellence in pathology.
Dr. Pritchett was appointed an assistant professor at UAB in 1975 and a surgical pathologist at UAB and later at Cooper Green Hospital. Dr. Robert Pritchett, her husband and a practicing dermatologist, provided financial support to the university in her name to establish this lectureship. We thank Dr. Pritchett and members of his family for making this lectureship possible.
2024 Pritchett Lecture
Why So Many Ways to Die?
Vishva Dixit, M.D.
Vice President and Senior Fellow
Physiological Chemistry, Research Biology
Genentech
May 16, 2024
12:00-1:00 PM CST
West Pavilion Conference Center- Room E
Past lecturers for the Dr. Paulette Shirey Pritchett Lecture in Pathology
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1990-1999
1990-1999
1992 Paul E. Lacy, M.D., Ph.D.
Robert L. Kroc Professor of Pathology
Washington University School of Medicine
"Islet Transplantation in Diabetes Mellitus"
1993 Lance A. Liotta, M.D., Ph.D.
NIH Deputy Director for Intramural Research
Chief of the Laboratory of Pathology,
National Cancer Institute
"Cancer Invasion and Metastasis: From Molecule to Bedside",
1994 Ramzi S. Cotran, M.D.
F.B. Mallory Professor of Pathology
Harvard Medical School
Chair, Department of Pathology,
Brigham and Women's Hospital and Children's Hospital Medical Center
"Endothelial Activation: Its Role in Inflammatory and Immune injury"
1995 Leroy E. Hood, M.D., Ph.D.
William Gates II Professor and Chair
Department of Molecular Biotechnology
University of Washington
"The Human Genome Project: Leading a Revolution in Medicine of the 21st Century"
1996 Russell Ross, D.D.S., Ph.D.
Professor of Pathology
Director, Center for Vascular Biology
University of Washington
"Cellular and Molecular Studies in Atherogenesis"
1997 Emil R. Unanue, M.D.
Mallinckrodt Professor and Chair, Department of Pathology
Washington University School of Medicine
“The Cellular and Biochemical Basis of Antigen processing for T Cell Recognition”
1998 Michael A. Gimbrone, Jr., M.D.
Elsie T. Friedman Professor Pathology
Harvard Medical School
“Vascular Endothelium: A Dynamic Interface in Health and Disease”
1999 Oliver Smithies, Ph.D.
Excellence Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2007 Nobel Laureate for Physiology and Medicine
“A Mouse View of Hypertension” -
2000-2010
2000-2010
2000 Louis J. Ignarro, Ph.D.
Jerome J. Belzer, M.D. Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology
University of California at Los Angeles
1998 Nobel Laureate for Physiology and Medicine
“Nitric oxide as a Unique Signaling Molecule in the Vascular System”
2001 William E. Paul, M.D.
Chief of the Laboratory of Immunology at the National Institute of Allergy and
Infections Diseases, National Institutes of Health
“Cytokine Biology: Lessons from IL-4”2002 Sir John E. Walker, D. Phil.
Director, The Medical Research Council’s
Dunn Human Nutrition
1997 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
“Power in Biology”2003 Peter F. Davies, Ph.D.
Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Director, Institute for Medicine and Engineering
University of Pennsylvania
“Flow-Mediated Endothelial Mechanotransduction: Spatial Structural and
Genomics Responses"
2004 Stanley J. Korsmeyer , M.D.
Sidney Farber Professor of Pathology
Harvard University
Dana Farber Cancer Institute
“Gateways to Apoptosis”
2005 Harvey Lodish, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology and Bioengineering
Massachusetts Institutes of Technology
“Hematopoietic Stem Cells: Regulation by novel surface proteins, growth factors,
and micro RNAs”
2006 Douglas C. Wallace, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
University of California at Irvine
“A Mitochondrial Paradigm of Metabolic and Degenerative Diseases, Aging, and
Cancer: a Dawn for Evolutionary Medicine”
2007 Harry C. Dietz, III, M.D.
Victor A. McKusick Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics,
Molecular Biology & Genetics
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
“Marfan Syndrome and Related Disorders: from Molecules to Medicines”
2008 Phillip A. Sharp, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
“The Biology and Medical Promise of Small RNAs”
2009 Gregg L. Semenza, M.D., Ph.D.
C. Michael Armstrong Professor, Depts. Of Pediatrics, Medicine, Oncology,
Radiation Oncology, and the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
“Targeting Hypoxia-Inducible Factor I for Cancer Therapy”
2010 Mary J.C. Hendrix, Ph.D.
President and Scientific Director,
Children’s Memorial Research Center
Professor, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center
and the Feinburg School of Medicine at Northwestern University
“Targeting a Novel Embryonic Pathway to Suppress the Metastatic
Phenotype” -
2011-2019
2011-2019
2011 Eric D. Green M.D., Ph.D.
Director, National Human Genome Research Institute
Senior Investigator & Head, Physical Mapping Section
Genome Technology Branch, Division of Intramural Research
National Institutes of Health
“Charting a Course for Genomic Medicine”
2012 Professor Sir Salvador Moncada, M.D.
Professor of Experimental Biology and Therapeutics
Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research
University College London
“Discovery of the Mechanism that Enables the Provision of Nutrients to
Proliferating Cells”
2013 Jeffrey I. Gordon, M.D.
Dr. Robert J. Glaser Distinguished University Professor
Director, Center for Genome Sciences
Department of Pathology and Immunology
Washington University School of Medicine
“Exploring the Human Gut Microbiome: Dining in with Tens of Trillions of
Fascinating Friends”
2014 Solomon Snyder, M.D.
Johns Hopkins Medical School
Department of Neuroscience
“Molecular Mechanisms in Huntington’s Disease Pathogenesis”
2015 Anthony Atala, M.D.
Director, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine
W.H. Boyce Professor and Chair of the Department of Urology
Wake Forest University
“Regenerative Medicine: New Approaches to Healthcare”
2018 Elaine Jaffe, M.D.
Series Editor, World Health Organization 'Classification of Tumours"
Senior Investigator
Laboratory of Pathology
Head, Hematopathology Section
National Cancer Institute
"Charting the Future of Lymphoma Classification: A Road Map for Disease Discovery and Treatment"
2019. Eric N. Olson, Ph.D.
Chair, Department of Molecular Biology
UT Southwestern Medical Center
"Understanding Muscle Development, Disease, and Regeneration"