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 President's Council
The President's Council was formed
three years ago in an effort to bring together a
small group of individuals interested in science and
the work at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Members of
the President's Council provide support for the Cold
Spring Harbor Fellows program through an annual
commitment of $25,000. This funding is critical to
the Lab's continued initiative to attract top young
scientists fresh from their Ph.D. studies. These
fellowships allow new researchers to pursue their own
research, rather than assisting in the laboratory of
an established scientist.
A major feature of the Council is
an annual meeting that brings together this select
group of leaders from business, finance, and science
to discuss the latest developments in genetic
research and biotechnology. The Council's 1996
meeting, held May 17-18, commenced with lunch on
Friday at Ballybung, the home of Jim and Liz Watson,
and was followed by thought-provoking lectures on
learning and memory by Drs. Tom Marr and Alcino Silva
of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. The keynote
speaker, Dr. Barry Gordon, Associate Professor of
Neurology and Cognitive Science at John Hopkins
University Medical School, opened the evening session
with his talk on Remembering and Forgetting.
Saturday's highlights included lectures by Dr. Eric
Kandel, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Columbia
University; Dr. Tim Tully, Cold Spring Harbor
Laboratory, Dr. Paula Tallal, Center for Molecular
and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers University; and
Dr. Earl Hunt, University of Washington. The mix of
minds--leaders in the business world and in the
scientific community--evoked interesting insights as
well as provocative discussions. The meeting ended on
Saturday with the guests gathering once again at
Ballybung for a parting luncheon.
Members of the President's Council
include Christopher Alafi, Alafi Capital; Abraham
Appel, Appel Consultants; Peter L. Bloom, General
Atlantic Partners; James T. Conneen, A.T. Hudson
& Co.; Michel David-Weill, Lazard Freres &
Co.; Frederick Frank, Lehman Brothers, Inc.; Leo A.
Guthart, ADEMCO; Charles E. Harris, Harris &
Harris Group, Inc.; Walter B. Kissinger, Long Island
Research Institute; Donald A. Pels, Pelsco, Inc.;
George B. Rathmann, ICOS Corporation; Hubert J. P.
Schoemaker, Centocor, Inc.; James H. Simons,
Renaissance Technologies Corp.; and Sigi Ziering,
Diagnostic Products Corporation.
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