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2007 Press Seminar Videos
Modern plagues: The race between research and pandemic

The world's premier researchers clarify the latest advances in the field of emerging pandemics.

The next flu pandemic: myths and realities
Hidde Ploegh, Whitehead Institute
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  Video length: 1:01:18

Slowing the onslaught of neurodegenerative disease
Susan Lindquist, Whitehead Institute
(Due to a minor technical glitch, a few minutes of this talk are missing from the middle.)
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  Video length: 30:09

Obesity: the biology of an epidemic
Christopher Hug, Whitehead Institute, Children's Hospital
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  Video length: 26:56

New approach to controlling pathogenic bacteria
Vincent A. Fischetti, Rockefeller University
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  Video length: 39:55

Luncheon keynote—The HIV/AIDS pandemic: Progress and challenges
Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
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  Video length: 56:29

Creating combined tuberculosis/HIV therapies
William Jacobs, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
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  Video length: 31:35

Epidemiology of drug resistant tuberculosis
Megan Murray, Harvard School of Public Health, Broad Institute
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  Video length: 29:48

Pathologic effects of pregnancy malaria on mother and offspring
Patrick Duffy, University of Washington, Seattle
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  Video length: 37:42

Unraveling smallpox and Ebola virus
Kate Rubins, Whitehead Institute
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  Video length: 34:37


For questions, contact press_seminar@wi.mit.edu

Last updated July 3, 2007.

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