Students and faculty packed L.A. Pittenger Student Center Cardinal halls A and B Tuesday night for the first annual Alice Procter Killey Lecture, sponsored by the College of Sciences and Humanities. Alumni Jeff Witherly, a senior adviser for the National Human Genome Research Institute, was the inaugural lecturer.
The halls seat 500 audience-style, but people were also sitting on the floor and behind the speaker in Cardinal halls C and B.
Witherly, a senior adviser at the education and community involvement branch, spoke about his project mapping human genes. This will help people determine and predict the risk of obtaining genetic diseases, including cancer, before they become sick.
"We map the genome and medicine is changing and it is important that people understand this," he said. "The medicine of the future will be genetically based."
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