Sidney E. Grossberg, MD, Lectureship
The annual Sidney E. Grossberg, MD, Endowed Lectureship was established in 1998 in honor of Dr. Sidney Grossberg, former chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, director of the Medical Scientist Training Program, and co-founder of the American Society of Virology. This lectureship features internationally recognized scientists or clinician scientists in the field of virology.
The Department of Microbiology and Immunology presents...
23rd Annual Sidney E. Grossberg, MD, Lectureship
Title: TBA
Dr. Adolfo Garcia-Sastre
Professor in the Department of Microbiology,
Director of the Global Health and
Emerging Pathogens Institute,
Icahn School of Medicine
Mount Sinai, New York City, NY
Date: September 30, 2025
Time: 12-1 p.m.
Location: HRC H1400 Bolger Auitorium
Distinguished Speakers
2024
Yuan Chang, MD
Distinguished Professor, American Cancer Society Research Professor
Department of Pathology
University of Pittsburgh
2023
Stacey Schultz-Cherry, PhD
Member, St. Jude Faculty
Deputy Director, World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Studies on the Ecology of Influenza in Animals and Birds
Senior Associate Dean, Academic Affairs, Graduate School for Biomedical Sciences
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
2022
Mary Estes, PhD
Distinguished Service Professor
Baylor College of Medicine
2021
Julie K. Pfeiffer, PhD
B.B. Owen Distinguished Chair in Molecular Research; Nadine and Tom Craddick Distinguished Chair in Medical Science
UT Southwestern Medical Center
2019
Diane Edmund Griffin, MD, PhD
Chair Emeritus of the W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Sidney E. Grossberg, MD
Sidney Edward Grossberg, MD, was professor and chairman of the Department of Microbiology (1966 - 1997), Professor of Medicine (1973 - 2009), and designated the Walter Schroeder Professor of Microbiology (1983 - 1999), MCW’s first endowed professorship in the basic science departments. Dr. Grossberg served also as Director of the MD/PhD Medical Scientist Training Program (1992 - 2000) and Deputy Director of the Cancer Center (1984 - 1996). His research career has been devoted to the study of RNA viruses and the interferon proteins.
Dr. Grossberg joined the MCW faculty in 1966 following a year in research at the Pasteur Institute in Paris with the Nobel Laureate André Lwoff, who discovered bacterial virus lysogeny (the first to show the integration of viral DNA into host genome). Dr. Grossberg was an NIH Research Career Development awardee and was further honored as a Markle Scholar in Academic Medicine and an American Cancer Society Scholar in Cancer Research. As recipient of a Senior Fellowship of the European Molecular Biology Organization in 1974, he returned to the Pasteur Institute on sabbatical leave to work with Luc Montagnier, Nobelist for isolating human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). In 1988, Dr. Grossberg received MCW's highest honor, its Distinguished Service Award. In 1998, the Medical College and the Microbiology Department established the subsequently endowed Grossberg Annual Lectureship.
Dr. Grossberg remains on the MCW faculty as Walter Schroeder Professor Emeritus of Microbiology and adjunct professor in microbiology & immunology.