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S A N G R A M
S I S O D I A
Sangram on My Mind*
Tuesday, March 19, 5:30-8:30pm
The
Lounge at Iwan Ries, 19 South Wabash
Cocktails at 5:30, presentation 6:00-6:30
followed by discussion and more cocktails.
$40 includes drinks, two cigars, and sandwiches.
Reservations
are required.
Sangram
Sisodia, Thomas Reynolds, Sr., Family Professor of
Neurosciences and Director of the Center for Molecular
Neurobiology at the University of Chicago, will give an
update on current research on the causes of Alzheimer's
Disease.
Since Sam's last lecture to the Cigar Society (in February
2010) there have been a number of articles in the Wall
Street Journal and the New York Times on
ground-breaking research on Alzheimer’s disease and the
clinical trials of new remedies. It’s all quackery, of
course. Our
eminent scholar and researcher Dr. Sisodia will debunk those
exaggerated claims and remind us that vigorous exercise
remains the best antidote, and that drinking, cigar smoking,
obesity, and lethargy are the primary accelerants. (Cigar
Society members remain exceptions to this rule, of course.)
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![[image: Sam Sisodia]](images/sisodia-2013.jpg) Dr.
Sangram Sisodia has received many awards,
including the Potamkin Prize for Alzheimer's Disease Research
from the American Academy of Neurology (1997); the Metropolitan Life
Foundation Award for Medical Research (1998); Presidential Special
Lecturer at the Annual Society for Neuroscience Meeting in 2001 and
2006; and membership in the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars (2007)
and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science (AAAS) (2009).
Dr. Sisodia has served on the scientific review and advisory
committees of the federal and non-federal agencies, including: NLS1
(NIH) Study Section ('95-'97); Member, NIA Board of Scientific
Counselors ('99-''04); SFN Program Committee (2007-).
He serves on the Editorial Boards of eight journals,
including Neuron and
Cell and is a member of the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives
and Faculty of 1000 Biology.
He was inducted as a member of the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars
(2007), Fellow of AAAS (2008), and Foreign Fellow of the National
Academy of Sciences, India (2010), and Spanish Royal Academy of
Sciences (2011).
He received
his B.A. from the College of Wooster in Ohio and his Ph.D. in
biochemistry from the University of Georgia. He joined The
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine as a Postdoctoral Fellow
in 1985, where he rose to the rank of Professor of Pathology and
Neuroscience. He then
moved to The University of Chicago in 1998 to assume the
Chairmanship in the Department of Neurobiology, Pharmacology, and
Physiology.
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About
the Cigar Society of Chicago
ONE OF THE OLDEST AND greatest
traditions of the city clubs of Chicago is the discussion of
intellectual, social, legal, artistic, historical, scientific,
musical, theatrical, and philosophical issues in the company of
educated, bright, and appropriately provocative individuals, all
under the beneficent influence of substantial amounts of tobacco
and spirits. The
Cigar Society of Chicago embraces this tradition and
extends it with its Informal Smokers,
University Series lectures, and Cigar Society Dinners,
in which cigars, and from time to time pipes and cigarettes,
appear as an important component of our version of the classical
symposium. To be included in the Cigar Society's
mailing list, write to the Secretary at
curtis.tuckey@logicophilosophicus.org.
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