Annual IBB Distinguished Lecture
The IBB Distinguished Lecture Series is held each year at Georgia Tech's Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience. The series brings nationally and internationally recognized bioengineering and bioscience leaders to the IBB community to give their perspective on the future of biotechnology. Since the series began in 2002, IBB has had the distinct honor and pleasure of hosting world-renowned lecturers.
Check back for details about our next Distinguished Lecture!
Past Distinguished Lecturers
2021 - Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, NAE, NAM, NAI
2020 - paused for pandemic
2019 - Wendell Lim, HHMI
2018 - Elias Zerhouni, NAM, NAE, Director of NIH
2017 - Michael DeBaun, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
2016 – Kristi Anseth, HHMI, NAS, NAM, NAE
2015 - Cori Bargmann, HHMI, NAS
2014 - Joseph DeSimone, NAE, NAS, NAM
2013 - Thomas Cech, Nobel Prize
2012 - David Mooney, NAE, NAM
2011 - Subra Suresh, NAE, Director of NSF
2010 - Ronald McKay, NIH NINDS
2009 - Phillip Sharp, Nobel Prize
2008 - George Whitesides, NAE, NAS
2007 - Shu Chien, NAE, NAS, NAM
2006 - Steven Chu, Nobel Prize, Secretary of Energy
2005 - Leroy Hood, NAE, NAS, NAM
2004 - Bruce Alberts, President of NAS
2003 - Sir Richard Sykes, Royal Academy of Engineering
2002 - Arthur Collins, CEO Medtronic
2001 - Kenneth Shine, NAS, President of IOM
