Dr. Kristian Hargadon and Dr. David Baltimore to Co-Keynote at Harker Research Symposium

Elliott Assistant Professor of Biology Dr. Kristian M. Hargadon will be one of two keynote speakers at the Harker Research Symposium at The Harker School in San Jose, CA in April.  Delivering the other keynote address will be Dr. David Baltimore, who received the 1975 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of reverse transcriptase and the role of RNA viruses in tumor cell transformation.  Dr. Hargadon was invited to speak about his cancer research at Hampden-Sydney as well as about his story as a scholar-athlete and the role played by both academics and athletics in his life.  His address is entitled “From Gym Rat to Tumor Immunologist:  A Scholar Athlete’s Path to Cancer Research.”  Additional information can be found at the following link:  http://www.harker.org/page.cfm?p=2683