Frank Longo, MD, PhD, whose work was the subject of the 2016 Time magazine cover, “The Alzheimer’s Pill,” headlines this year’s Denham Harman, MD, PhD, Biomedical and Gerontology Lectureship. The annual Harman Lecture is set for April 7, 12-1 p.m., in DRC 1-1002.
This is the first in-person Harman Lecture since the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic was declared in 2020. A Zoom option is available for those who would like to watch the lecture remotely.
Dr. Longo is professor and chair of the Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford University and on the clinical team in the Stanford Center for Memory Disorders. He will lecture on “Synaptic Resilience and Translation to an Alzheimer’s Disease Therapy.”
Dr. Longo was recipient of the inaugural Melvin R. Goodes Prize for Excellence in Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery in 2015 from the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation. He currently serves on the National Advisory Council on Aging for the National Institutes of Health.
The Harman Lectureship was established in 2002 by the University of Nebraska Foundation in honor of the late Dr. Harman, a famed researcher who served on the UNMC faculty for 52 years, 1958 through 2010. Dr. Harman was nominated six times for a Nobel Prize and was called the “Father of the Free Radical Theory of Aging.” He proposed the theory in 1954 and discovered the role of antioxidants (vitamins C, E and beta-carotene) in fighting heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. Dr. Harman died in 2014 at age 98.