April 14, 2008

Sklar to Present 53rd Annual Research Lecture

SklarLarry Sklar, professor of pathology, will present the 53rd Annual Research Lecture, the highest honor UNM bestows on its faculty members. His talk addressing “Team Science: Partnerships for Discovery and Innovation” will be held Thursday, April 17, at 7 p.m. in the Domenici Auditorium, UNM Health Sciences Center. The event is free and open to the public.

Photo: Larry Sklar

Sklar’s research interests include signal transduction, cell adhesion, leukocyte biology, high throughput technologies for molecular assembly and drug discovery. He received his Ph.D. in chemistry from Stanford University in 1976. He came to UNM in 1990 after a number of years in the Department of Immunology at Scripps.

Among his many appointments, he has served as director of signal transduction and cell adhesion, associate director of basic research and director of biotechnology, all at the UNM Cancer Center. Currently he is director of the NIEHS Biotechnology Core and Biotechnology Integration at the UNM School of Medicine.

See the flyer for the event: 2008 Annual Research Lecture.

Posted by scarr at April 14, 2008 12:05 PM