Richard P. Lifton, M.D., Ph.D

Richard P. Lifton, M.D., Ph.D., chair of the Department of Genetics and professor of medicine, genetics, and molecular biophysics and biochemistry, delivered two lectures as part of the 1998 Holiday Lectures on Science for high school students sponsored by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The lectures—Telltale Genes: Charting Human Disease and The Kidney’s Tale: of Salt and Hypertension—were broadcast live via satellite throughout the United States and Canada and internationally via the Internet.