The Hope Center Lecture is presented at the Annual Hope Center Retreat.
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2026 Hope Center Lecture
Tuesday, April 21
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
Robert Baloh, MD, PhD
Global Head of Neuroscience
Novartis Biomedical Research
Hope Center Lectures
2025: Huda Zoghbi, MD (HHMI/Baylor College of Medicine)
2024: Joseph Lewcock, PhD (Denali Therapeutics)
2023: Michael Ward, MD, PhD (National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke/National Institutes of Health)
2022: Louise Rodino-Klapac, PhD (Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc.), Martin Kampmann, PhD (University of California, San Francisco)
2021: Merit Cudkowicz (Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital)
2019: Guoping Feng (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Sally Temple (Neural Stem Cell Institute)
2018: Leonard Petrucelli, PhD (Mayo Clinic Florida)
2017: Laura Ranum (University of Florida)
2016: Beverly Davidson (University of Pennsylvania)
2015: Daria Mochly-Rosen (Stanford University)
2014: Al Sandrock (Biogen Idec)
2013: Ryan Watts (Genentech)
2012: David Julius (University of California, San Francisco)
2011: Jeffery Kelly (The Scripps Research Institute)
2010: Harry Orr (University of Minnesota)
2009: Marc Tessier-Lavigne (Genentech)
2008: Ben Barres (Stanford University)
2007: Steve Wagner (TorreyPines Therapeutics)