6th Annual George and Lily Boxer Memorial Lecture

Slated for October 17, 2007

Piscataway – Peter J. Novick, PhD, a professor of cell biology at Yale University School of Medicine, will present “Regulation of Membrane Traffic by Rab GTPase Cascades” at the 2007 George and Lily Boxer Memorial Lecture on Wednesday, October 17, at 4 pm, in the Main Auditorium at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, 675 Hoes Lane, in Piscataway.  The Boxer Memorial Lecture series is a free public program offered by the department of pathology and laboratory medicine.

Dr. Novick earned his doctorate degree in biochemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. He is an author on more than one hundred papers, and has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  Dr. Novick’s research addresses the processes underlying cell polarity in yeast, particularly as it relates to the release of protein and cell surface growth.

This year’s lecture is the 36th in a prestigious series that began in 1969 as a tribute in memory of Dr. George E. Boxer, former executive director of the Merck Institute and associate editor of Cancer Research.  Over the years, this acclaimed series has attracted lecturers from across the nation, including eight Nobel Prize winners.  In 2007, the fund was renamed The George and Lily Boxer Memorial Lecture in honor of Mrs. Lily Boxer who passed away in 2006.  Mrs. Boxer will be forever remembered for her commitment to the advancement of biomedical research and for being the catalyst that made the Boxer lecture a distinguished tradition at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.

More information about The George and Lily Boxer Memorial Lecture is available by contacting Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at (732) 235-6356.