Lasker-DeBakey award recipient, Dr. Brian Druker, to present Latta Lecture

Brian Druker, M.D., an oncologist at Oregon Health and Sciences University and a Howard Hughes Medical Investigator, will present the Latta Lecture at UNMC on Friday at noon in the Eppley Science Hall.

Brian Druker, M.D.

In 2009, Dr. Druker and researcher Nicholas Lydon received the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award, often called the “American Nobel Prize,” for their development of molecularly targeted treatments for chronic myeloid leukemia.

Read a 2009 New York Times interview with Dr. Druker.

The Latta Lectureship is named after the late John S. Latta, M.D., who taught courses in embryology and histology at UNMC from 1921 until 1963.

In 1980, the UNMC College of Medicine Alumni Association established the John S. Latta Lectureship to commemorate his service to the college. Dr. Latta died in 1989 at age 94.