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ONLINE: Creating Harmony Between Faith and Science

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Date and Time:October 30, 2020 — 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM undefined
Location:Online
Organizer:Vellore Christian Medical College Foundation
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BioLogos Voices speaker and board member Praveen Sethupathy will present “Creating Harmony Between Faith and Science” with Vellore Christian Medical College Foundation on Friday, October 30, 2020 at 10:00 AM (ET).

“We invite you to join us on Friday, October 30th for an enlightening lecture on Creating Harmony between Faith and Science with Praveen Sethupathy, PhD, Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences and Director of the Center for Genomics at Cornell University. He is also Board member of the nonprofit organization BioLogos founded by Dr. Francis Collins, Director of National Institutes of Health.”


Featured speaker

Praveen Sethupathy

Praveen Sethupathy

Praveen is Professor of Physiological Genomics and Chair of the Department of Biomedical Sciences at Cornell University. He is also Director of the Cornell Center for Vertebrate Genomics. He leads a research lab focused on genome-scale and molecular approaches to understand physiology and human disease. Praveen received his BA degree from Cornell University and his PhD in Genomics from the University of Pennsylvania. After completing a post-doctoral fellowship at the National Human Genome Research Institute under the mentorship of NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins, he moved in 2011 to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetics. The same year he was selected by Genome Technology as one of the nation’s top 25 rising young investigators in genomics. In 2017, he returned to Cornell University as an Associate Professor. Praveen has authored over 140 peer-reviewed publications in scientific journals such as PNAS, Cell and Science and has served as a reviewer for over 50 different journals. Honors include a faculty merit award for outstanding teaching and mentoring, the prestigious American Diabetes Association Pathway To Stop Diabetes Research Accelerator (which is awarded to only three people per year), and the inaugural Boehringer Ingelheim Award for Excellence in Research Mentorship. Praveen is an advocate for thoughtful discussion at the interface of science and faith and has served on the advisory board of the Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), serves on the Board of BioLogos, is a frequent speaker for the BioLogos Voice Program and the Veritas Forum, and a mentor in the Veritas Faculty Scholars program.