Cancer research pioneer to present Carleton convocation

October 12, 2015
By Amirah Ellison '18

Todd Golub, a member of the Carleton Class of 1985 and considered to be one of the world’s leaders in using genomics to understand the basis of cancer, will present Carleton College’s weekly convocation on Friday, Oct 16 from 10:50 to 11:50 a.m. in the Skinner Memorial Chapel.

Entitled "How the Human Genome Will Change the Face of Cancer," Golub will discuss how the field of genomics has made fundamental discoveries in the molecular basis of childhood leukemia. Golub’s own work has laid the foundation for the diagnosis and classification of human cancers using gene expression analysis. He has also pioneered the development of chemical screening approaches based on gene expression.

This event is free and open to the public. Carleton convocations are also recorded and archived online at go.carleton.edu/convo.

Golub is a founding member of Harvard University’s Broad Institute and serves as its chief scientific officer and director of its cancer program.

He joined the faculty of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School in 1997. At the same time he served as the leader of cancer genomics at the Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research, which evolved into the Cancer Program at the Broad Institute, which he has directed since 2004. Golub is currently the Charles A. Dana Investigator in Human Cancer Genetics at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.

Golub is the recipient of multiple awards, including the Erasmus Hematology Award, the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Memorial Award and the Outstanding Achievement Award from the American Association for Cancer Research, the Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research, the E. Mead Johnson Award from the Society for Pediatric Research, and the Judson Daland Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Clinical Investigation from the American Philosophical Society.

Golub received his B.A. from Carleton College and his M.D. from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. He completed his internship, residency, and fellowship training at Children’s Hospital Boston and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

This event is sponsored by the Carleton College Convocations Committee. For more information, including disability accommodations, call (507) 222-4308. The Skinner Memorial Chapel is located at the corner of College and First Streets in Northfield.