The annual Thomas & Salma Haider Biomedical Breakthrough Lecture brings the best and brightest researchers in the biomedical field to Riverside to present their research. The event will be held Thursday, Oct. 3 at 6 p.m. at the UCR Alumni and Visitors Center.



This year's speaker is Dr. David Hafler, the William S. and Lois Stiles Edgerly professor and chairman Department of Neurology and professor of immunobiology at the Yale School of Medicine. He is the neurologist-in-chief of the Yale-New Haven Hospital.



He is a clinical scientist with a research interest in the mechanism of multiple sclerosis with over 400 publications in the field of MS, autoimmunity and immunology and is a co-founder of the International MS Genetic Consortium a group that identified the genes causing MS.



To RSVP, please visit http://atu.cr/haider19



For additional questions on this event, please contact development@medsch.ucr.edu