1 00:00:08,922 --> 00:00:12,593 >> OKAY, CAN EVERYONE TAKE A 2 00:00:12,593 --> 00:00:15,529 SEAT SOMEWHERE IF YOU'RE 3 00:00:15,529 --> 00:00:17,364 COMFORTABLE. 4 00:00:17,364 --> 00:00:19,132 I'M GIVEN AN AGENDA THAT IS 5 00:00:19,132 --> 00:00:21,668 REALLY JAM-PACKED, SO WE'RE 6 00:00:21,668 --> 00:00:23,670 ALREADY 9 MINUTES LATE SO WE 7 00:00:23,670 --> 00:00:34,214 HAVE TO SOMEHOW TRY TO CATCH UP. 8 00:00:39,152 --> 00:00:42,923 SO THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING HERE. 9 00:00:42,923 --> 00:00:44,858 BUT THE CHIEF GUEST OF THIS 10 00:00:44,858 --> 00:00:49,696 EVENING IS DR. KRAEMER, AND WE 11 00:00:49,696 --> 00:00:53,400 ARE HERE TO CELEBRATE THIS 12 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:56,270 ILLUSTRIOUS INNOVATIVE, CARING 13 00:00:56,270 --> 00:00:58,205 AND EXPANSIVE CAREER HE HAS 14 00:00:58,205 --> 00:01:00,440 GIVEN TO US IN THE LAST 50 YEARS 15 00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:03,710 OR SO AT NIH. 16 00:01:03,710 --> 00:01:05,445 SO IT'S A GREAT PLEASURE FOR ME 17 00:01:05,445 --> 00:01:08,815 TO BE INTRODUCING YOU. 18 00:01:08,815 --> 00:01:11,652 I MET KEN DURING MY INTERVIEWS 19 00:01:11,652 --> 00:01:13,854 WHEN I WAS LOOKING FOR A 20 00:01:13,854 --> 00:01:15,188 POSITION HERE, AND THAT'S WHEN I 21 00:01:15,188 --> 00:01:19,126 SORT OF LEARNED ABOUT HIS WORK 22 00:01:19,126 --> 00:01:19,993 AND WHAT HE HAS DONE. 23 00:01:19,993 --> 00:01:21,295 IT WAS INSPIRING BECAUSE IT'S 24 00:01:21,295 --> 00:01:25,232 ONE OF THOSE THINGS, A VERY IN 25 00:01:25,232 --> 00:01:26,233 DEPTH ANALYSIS OF WHAT SEEMS TO 26 00:01:26,233 --> 00:01:28,535 BE A SMALL QUESTION, BUT THE 27 00:01:28,535 --> 00:01:31,271 IMPACT AND THE INSIGHTS HE GOT 28 00:01:31,271 --> 00:01:34,441 FROM THEM WERE VAST AND 29 00:01:34,441 --> 00:01:35,509 EXPANSIVE, LIKELY TO HAVE AN 30 00:01:35,509 --> 00:01:37,611 IMPACT ON MANY, MANY PATIENTS. 31 00:01:37,611 --> 00:01:39,046 SO AS I LEARNED MORE AND MORE 32 00:01:39,046 --> 00:01:43,083 ABOUT KEN, I REALIZED THAT HE 33 00:01:43,083 --> 00:01:44,284 HAD ACTUALLY MADE SUCH A 34 00:01:44,284 --> 00:01:47,020 CONTRIBUTION TO SCIENCE THAT IS 35 00:01:47,020 --> 00:01:47,988 UNLIKE ANY OTHER, AND YOU NEED 36 00:01:47,988 --> 00:01:51,058 TO BE IN A PLACE LIKE NCI TO DO 37 00:01:51,058 --> 00:01:55,529 IT BECAUSE IT REQUIRES VERY 38 00:01:55,529 --> 00:01:56,296 METICULOUS ANALYSIS THAT IS HARD 39 00:01:56,296 --> 00:01:57,965 TO DO OUTSIDE. 40 00:01:57,965 --> 00:01:59,600 AS I WAS ALSO THINKING ABOUT IT, 41 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:02,202 YOU KNOW, WE ALL KNOW A LOT OF 42 00:02:02,202 --> 00:02:03,737 PEOPLE TRYING TO MAKE IMPACT IN 43 00:02:03,737 --> 00:02:06,139 OTHER PEOPLE'S LIVES BY HELPING 44 00:02:06,139 --> 00:02:09,576 THEM GROW HAIR. 45 00:02:09,576 --> 00:02:12,813 IT'S A BIG BUSINESS, AS YOU 46 00:02:12,813 --> 00:02:15,549 KNOW, AND THERE'S A BIG FOLL 47 00:02:15,549 --> 00:02:17,317 FOLLOWING AND ALL THAT. 48 00:02:17,317 --> 00:02:18,251 DR. KRAEMER, ON THE OTHER HAND, 49 00:02:18,251 --> 00:02:20,587 HAS IMPACTED SO MANY PEOPLE'S 50 00:02:20,587 --> 00:02:22,255 LIVES, AND THERE ARE PATIENTS 51 00:02:22,255 --> 00:02:24,758 WHO FOLLOW HIM DEARLY, BUT HE 52 00:02:24,758 --> 00:02:28,462 DOES THAT BY TAKING THEIR HAIR. 53 00:02:28,462 --> 00:02:28,895 [LAUGHTER] 54 00:02:28,895 --> 00:02:30,430 SO GO FIGURE THAT, RIGHT? 55 00:02:30,430 --> 00:02:31,965 SO HE HAS MADE A CAREER FOR 56 00:02:31,965 --> 00:02:35,469 HIMSELF AND ALSO TO BIOLOGY BY 57 00:02:35,469 --> 00:02:38,071 ACTUALLY ANALYZING SAMPLES OF 58 00:02:38,071 --> 00:02:40,173 PATIENTS' HAIR SAMPLES AND HE 59 00:02:40,173 --> 00:02:42,476 CONTINUES TO HAVE HIGHLY 60 00:02:42,476 --> 00:02:44,645 PRODUCTIVE DISCOVERIES THAT 61 00:02:44,645 --> 00:02:48,782 DELINEATE THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF 62 00:02:48,782 --> 00:02:50,117 PATIENTS AND SUBDISEASES AND HOW 63 00:02:50,117 --> 00:02:52,853 A SINGLE MUTATION CAN CAUSE 64 00:02:52,853 --> 00:02:53,954 MULTIPLE DIFFERENT DISEASES. 65 00:02:53,954 --> 00:02:55,389 THOSE KIND OF INSIGHTS ARE RARE 66 00:02:55,389 --> 00:02:58,325 TO COME UNLESS YOU HAVE SOME 67 00:02:58,325 --> 00:02:59,292 METICULOUS ANALYSIS LIKE THIS. 68 00:02:59,292 --> 00:03:01,495 NOW AFTER COMING HERE, I'VE 69 00:03:01,495 --> 00:03:02,562 INTERACTED WITH KEN MANY TIMES, 70 00:03:02,562 --> 00:03:04,231 AND I'VE BEEN VERY IMPRESSED BY 71 00:03:04,231 --> 00:03:07,067 HOW KIND, GENTLE, AND HUMBLE HE 72 00:03:07,067 --> 00:03:08,068 IS. 73 00:03:08,068 --> 00:03:09,903 AND THE WAY HE CARES FOR HIS 74 00:03:09,903 --> 00:03:11,538 PEOPLE IS JUST UNLIKE ANY OTHER 75 00:03:11,538 --> 00:03:13,740 THAT I'VE COME ACROSS. 76 00:03:13,740 --> 00:03:15,175 SO I AM VERY IMPRESSED BY WHAT 77 00:03:15,175 --> 00:03:16,910 YOU HAVE DONE SO FAR, AND VERY 78 00:03:16,910 --> 00:03:18,111 IMPRESSED BY WHAT YOU HAVE DONE 79 00:03:18,111 --> 00:03:19,646 TO US AND GIVEN US TO LEARN FROM 80 00:03:19,646 --> 00:03:22,382 YOU. 81 00:03:22,382 --> 00:03:25,452 SO I CONGRATULATE YOU ON YOUR 82 00:03:25,452 --> 00:03:26,420 ILLUSTRIOUS CAREER HERE AND THE 83 00:03:26,420 --> 00:03:29,389 INSPIRATION YO THAT WILL LIVE ON 84 00:03:29,389 --> 00:03:30,924 FOR ALL THE PEOPLE IN THIS ROOM 85 00:03:30,924 --> 00:03:31,591 HERE AND OUTSIDE. 86 00:03:31,591 --> 00:03:32,659 SO THANK YOU FOR DOING THAT. 87 00:03:32,659 --> 00:03:34,528 LET'S GIVE A BIG ROUND OF 88 00:03:34,528 --> 00:03:36,730 APPLAUSE TO OUR CHIEF GUEST 89 00:03:36,730 --> 00:03:36,930 TODAY. 90 00:03:36,930 --> 00:03:42,836 [APPLAUSE] 91 00:03:42,836 --> 00:03:44,371 SO I'M GOING TO GIVE A SMALL 92 00:03:44,371 --> 00:03:46,440 TROPHY TO DR. KRAEMER, BUT I 93 00:03:46,440 --> 00:03:47,874 WANT TO DO THAT IN FRONT OF HIS 94 00:03:47,874 --> 00:03:48,642 FAMILY. 95 00:03:48,642 --> 00:03:51,578 SO I WANT ALL OF YOU TO COME UP. 96 00:03:51,578 --> 00:03:54,548 SO THAT HE CAN RECEIVE THE GIFT 97 00:03:54,548 --> 00:03:56,283 IN FRONT OF YOU BECAUSE I THINK 98 00:03:56,283 --> 00:03:59,586 HE DESERVES TO HAVE YOU GUYS 99 00:03:59,586 --> 00:04:00,887 NEXT TO HIM. 100 00:04:00,887 --> 00:04:02,189 HE TALKS ABOUT YOU GUYS ALL THE 101 00:04:02,189 --> 00:04:06,159 TIME. 102 00:04:06,159 --> 00:04:16,336 [LAUGHTER] 103 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:50,837 [INAUDIBLE] THIS IS A PLAQUE FOR 104 00:04:53,940 --> 00:04:56,576 OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT, KEN 105 00:04:56,576 --> 00:05:04,785 KRAEMER. 106 00:05:04,785 --> 00:05:07,120 [INAUDIBLE] 107 00:05:07,120 --> 00:05:17,297 [APPLAUSE] 108 00:05:18,799 --> 00:05:20,534 >> CONGRATULATIONS. 109 00:05:20,534 --> 00:05:30,777 WELL-DESERVED. 110 00:05:36,583 --> 00:05:38,385 GETTING YOUR EXERCISE. 111 00:05:38,385 --> 00:05:48,929 AND I'LL BE TALKING AT THE END. 112 00:05:50,497 --> 00:05:55,202 >> SO BEFORE I WELCOME THE NEXT 113 00:05:55,202 --> 00:05:56,303 SPEAKER, WHO IS GOING TO PRESENT 114 00:05:56,303 --> 00:05:57,604 SOMETHING ELSE TO DR. KRAEMER, I 115 00:05:57,604 --> 00:06:03,410 JUST WANT TO SAY THOMAS TULLY 116 00:06:03,410 --> 00:06:05,078 REGRETS DEEPLY HE WASN'T ABLE TO 117 00:06:05,078 --> 00:06:06,680 BE HERE WITH US ALL BUT HE SENDS 118 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:10,083 HIS CON DW CONGRATULATIONS AND T 119 00:06:10,083 --> 00:06:11,084 WISHES FOR RETIRED LIFE. 120 00:06:11,084 --> 00:06:16,323 SO NEXT, I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE 121 00:06:16,323 --> 00:06:18,091 DR. CAROL PEALE, MAYBE YOU CAN 122 00:06:18,091 --> 00:06:19,926 START WITH GIVING HIM THE AWARD 123 00:06:19,926 --> 00:06:21,695 AND THEN THE PICTURE AND THEN 124 00:06:21,695 --> 00:06:32,105 YOU CAN SAY A FEW WORDS. 125 00:06:37,310 --> 00:06:47,420 [APPLAUSE] 126 00:06:59,499 --> 00:07:00,200 >> OKAY. 127 00:07:00,200 --> 00:07:01,835 WELL, IT'S A REAL PRIVILEGE FOR 128 00:07:01,835 --> 00:07:04,104 ME ON BEHALF OF THE CCR, FIRST 129 00:07:04,104 --> 00:07:05,972 OF ALL, IT'S A PRIVILEGE TO BE 130 00:07:05,972 --> 00:07:08,508 THE DEPUTY FOR THE LCBG, AND TO 131 00:07:08,508 --> 00:07:11,912 MEET ALL THE WONDERFUL PIs IN 132 00:07:11,912 --> 00:07:14,080 THAT GROUP, THOSE WHO WERE HERE 133 00:07:14,080 --> 00:07:17,250 AND THOSE WHO HAVE LEFT, BUT YOU 134 00:07:17,250 --> 00:07:20,987 KNOW, I HAVE MET KEN INDIRECTLY 135 00:07:20,987 --> 00:07:22,422 FOR MANY, MANY YEARS AGO, WHEN I 136 00:07:22,422 --> 00:07:25,792 FIRST CAME TO NIH, BECAUSE KEN'S 137 00:07:25,792 --> 00:07:29,296 GROUP HAD FAR-REACHING EFFECT, 138 00:07:29,296 --> 00:07:32,999 AND IT WAS THROUGH -- GIOVANNI 139 00:07:32,999 --> 00:07:34,434 THAT I MET AND LEARNED OF KEN'S 140 00:07:34,434 --> 00:07:35,969 WORK BECAUSE JOHN AND I SHARED A 141 00:07:35,969 --> 00:07:39,572 LOVE OF RETINOIDS, AND MY CAREER 142 00:07:39,572 --> 00:07:41,741 REALLY WAS FUNDAMENTALLY BASED 143 00:07:41,741 --> 00:07:45,779 ON THE PHENOMENON OF HOW RETINA 144 00:07:45,779 --> 00:07:48,081 GASES COULD CONTROL THE GROWTH 145 00:07:48,081 --> 00:07:49,516 OF NEUROBLASTOMA CELLS AND 146 00:07:49,516 --> 00:07:50,450 INDUCE DIFFERENTIATION. 147 00:07:50,450 --> 00:07:51,651 EVERYTHING I LEARNED ABOUT THE 148 00:07:51,651 --> 00:07:53,119 CLINICAL USE OF RET NOIDZ CAME 149 00:07:53,119 --> 00:07:56,056 FROM JOHN, AND SO WHO WAS REALLY 150 00:07:56,056 --> 00:07:58,024 INTEGRAL TO KEN'S GROUP, AND SO 151 00:07:58,024 --> 00:08:01,127 KEN NOT ONLY -- I THINK IT'S 152 00:08:01,127 --> 00:08:05,398 EMBLEMATIC OF THE REALLY ASTUTE 153 00:08:05,398 --> 00:08:06,499 CLINICIAN AND THE ABILITY TO 154 00:08:06,499 --> 00:08:09,302 TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE TIMES AND 155 00:08:09,302 --> 00:08:13,673 MAKE REALLY GREAT DISCOVERIES. 156 00:08:13,673 --> 00:08:14,774 BUT ALSO TO SEE AMONGST THE 157 00:08:14,774 --> 00:08:16,509 PEOPLE HE INTERACTED WITH A REAL 158 00:08:16,509 --> 00:08:18,044 LOVE FOR SCIENCE AND FOR TAKING 159 00:08:18,044 --> 00:08:20,780 CARE OF PATIENTS. 160 00:08:20,780 --> 00:08:23,850 AND THAT ASPECT -- I KNOW I WAS 161 00:08:23,850 --> 00:08:25,385 VERY INTRIGUED AT YOUR LAST SITE 162 00:08:25,385 --> 00:08:26,453 VISIT WHEN YOU TALKED ABOUT THE 163 00:08:26,453 --> 00:08:29,422 FACT THAT THERE MAY BE 164 00:08:29,422 --> 00:08:31,725 UNDERLYING MORE DNA REPAIR 165 00:08:31,725 --> 00:08:33,226 DEFECTS TO BE IDENTIFIED, AND SO 166 00:08:33,226 --> 00:08:37,864 I THINK IT'S A CHALLENGE TO THE 167 00:08:37,864 --> 00:08:39,499 COMMUNITY TO REALLY TAKE THIS UP 168 00:08:39,499 --> 00:08:41,234 AGAIN AND TO FOLLOW YOUR LINE OF 169 00:08:41,234 --> 00:08:41,668 RESEARCH. 170 00:08:41,668 --> 00:08:45,071 SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR ALL 171 00:08:45,071 --> 00:08:45,505 YOU'VE DONE. 172 00:08:45,505 --> 00:08:55,715 [APPLAUSE] 173 00:08:55,715 --> 00:08:56,983 >> THANK YOU, CAROL. 174 00:08:56,983 --> 00:08:58,618 SO ALTHOUGH I SPEAK ON BEHALF OF 175 00:08:58,618 --> 00:09:02,222 ALL THE PIs AND STAFF AT LCBG, 176 00:09:02,222 --> 00:09:03,523 I'VE KNOWN KEN ONLY FOR A VERY 177 00:09:03,523 --> 00:09:04,958 SHORT TIME. 178 00:09:04,958 --> 00:09:06,593 THE PERSON THAT KNOWS HIM WELL 179 00:09:06,593 --> 00:09:08,028 IS GOING TO SPEAK NEXT. 180 00:09:08,028 --> 00:09:10,864 HE COULDN'T BE HERE IN PERSON 181 00:09:10,864 --> 00:09:11,731 UNFORTUNATELY, I'LL TURN IT OVER 182 00:09:11,731 --> 00:09:12,632 TO STU. 183 00:09:12,632 --> 00:09:20,840 TAKE IT AWAY, STU. 184 00:09:20,840 --> 00:09:22,909 >> THANKS, SENTHIL. 185 00:09:22,909 --> 00:09:23,777 I'M SORRY I CAN'T BE THERE. 186 00:09:23,777 --> 00:09:25,645 KEN AND I GO BACK A LONG, LONG 187 00:09:25,645 --> 00:09:25,912 WAY. 188 00:09:25,912 --> 00:09:27,280 WE PUBLISHED A PAPER TOGETHER IN 189 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:28,281 THE 80s. 190 00:09:28,281 --> 00:09:31,117 WHICH I LOOKED AT RECENTLY, 191 00:09:31,117 --> 00:09:32,852 HADN'T REMEMBERED TOO MUCH ABOUT 192 00:09:32,852 --> 00:09:34,687 IT, BUT IT WAS A PRETTY NICE 193 00:09:34,687 --> 00:09:39,959 PIECE OF WORK, AND I THINK KEN 194 00:09:39,959 --> 00:09:42,729 HAS DONE A LOT OF MUCH BETTER 195 00:09:42,729 --> 00:09:43,563 WORK SINCE THAT TIME. 196 00:09:43,563 --> 00:09:48,301 YOU KNOW, I'VE ALWAYS FELT THAT 197 00:09:48,301 --> 00:09:53,406 THE DISCOVERY BY JIM KLIEBER IN 198 00:09:53,406 --> 00:09:54,841 THE 60s OF THE RELATIONSHIP 199 00:09:54,841 --> 00:09:59,446 BETWEEN DNA REPAIR AND CANCER -- 200 00:09:59,446 --> 00:10:00,480 DISEASE -- IS PROBABLY ONE OF 201 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:02,048 THE MOST IMPORTANT HISTORICAL 202 00:10:02,048 --> 00:10:04,784 DISCOVERIES IN CANCER RESEARCH 203 00:10:04,784 --> 00:10:05,452 HISTORY. 204 00:10:05,452 --> 00:10:08,721 I THINK THAT FOR THE FIRST TIME 205 00:10:08,721 --> 00:10:12,025 REALLY POINTED TO DNA AS A MAJOR 206 00:10:12,025 --> 00:10:12,559 PLAYER. 207 00:10:12,559 --> 00:10:14,961 I THINK WHAT KEN HAS DONE SINCE 208 00:10:14,961 --> 00:10:16,830 THAT TIME HAS BEEN PRETTY 209 00:10:16,830 --> 00:10:20,667 EXTRAORDINARY AS WELL. 210 00:10:20,667 --> 00:10:23,837 HIS ABILITY TO ILLUMINATE OTHER 211 00:10:23,837 --> 00:10:25,338 DISEASES, A MUCH BROADER 212 00:10:25,338 --> 00:10:28,074 SPECTRUM OF DISEASES THAT CAROL 213 00:10:28,074 --> 00:10:29,609 REFERRED TO OVER A TIME RELATED 214 00:10:29,609 --> 00:10:32,445 TO MUTATIONS IN DNA REPAIR GENES 215 00:10:32,445 --> 00:10:35,782 HAS REALLY OPENED THE FIELD'S 216 00:10:35,782 --> 00:10:39,786 EYES TO THE FAR-RANGING PROBLEMS 217 00:10:39,786 --> 00:10:43,289 THAT CAN OCCUR AS A RESULT OF 218 00:10:43,289 --> 00:10:46,893 DNA REPAIR MISHAPS. 219 00:10:46,893 --> 00:10:48,995 KEN HAS FURTHER, I THINK, KEPT 220 00:10:48,995 --> 00:10:53,900 THE FIELD TOGETHER WITH HIS DNA 221 00:10:53,900 --> 00:10:55,001 REPAIR INTEREST GROUP. 222 00:10:55,001 --> 00:10:56,636 I HAVE NO IDEA HOW HE WAS ABLE 223 00:10:56,636 --> 00:10:59,906 TO DO IT 35 YEARS AGO, WHEN 224 00:10:59,906 --> 00:11:03,743 THERE WAS VERY LITTLE ABILITY TO 225 00:11:03,743 --> 00:11:05,078 COMMUNICATE ACROSS CONTINENTS, 226 00:11:05,078 --> 00:11:06,713 EVEN ACROSS THIS CONTINENT. 227 00:11:06,713 --> 00:11:09,649 BUT YET HE AND WILL MANAGED TO 228 00:11:09,649 --> 00:11:12,385 FIND A WAY TO KEEP THE FIELD 229 00:11:12,385 --> 00:11:13,586 TOGETHER AND THAT CONTINUES 230 00:11:13,586 --> 00:11:14,954 TODAY, AND FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO 231 00:11:14,954 --> 00:11:17,757 ARE ON THE MAILING LIST FROM 232 00:11:17,757 --> 00:11:23,530 THAT INTEREST GROUP, YOU CAN SEE 233 00:11:23,530 --> 00:11:25,398 AMAZINGLY HOW SO MANY IMPORTANT 234 00:11:25,398 --> 00:11:30,203 THINGS ARE TRANSMITTED THAT WAY. 235 00:11:30,203 --> 00:11:33,173 ANOTHER ASPECT THAT WE -- IT'S 236 00:11:33,173 --> 00:11:34,474 ALMOST UNIQUE, WAS THE 237 00:11:34,474 --> 00:11:38,278 COMPASSIONATE CARE THAT HE GAVE 238 00:11:38,278 --> 00:11:39,279 TO PATIENTS WITH A REALLY 239 00:11:39,279 --> 00:11:40,613 DIFFICULT DISEASE TO TAKE CARE 240 00:11:40,613 --> 00:11:44,851 OF, OFTEN OCCURRED -- USUALLY 241 00:11:44,851 --> 00:11:47,153 OCCURRED IN CHILDREN WITH A VERY 242 00:11:47,153 --> 00:11:48,621 DIFFICULT THING -- WAS A VERY 243 00:11:48,621 --> 00:11:50,123 DIFFICULT THING TO COMBAT AND 244 00:11:50,123 --> 00:11:53,626 LIVES WERE RUINED, BUT KEN AND 245 00:11:53,626 --> 00:11:57,130 JOHN AND DEBBY MANAGE DOLLARS TO 246 00:11:57,130 --> 00:11:58,264 HAVE A CLINIC LIKE NO OTHER IN 247 00:11:58,264 --> 00:11:59,632 THE WORLD TO HELP THESE PEOPLE 248 00:11:59,632 --> 00:12:02,268 GET THROUGH THIS TERRIBLE 249 00:12:02,268 --> 00:12:08,408 TRAGEDY THAT HAD FELL ON THEM. 250 00:12:08,408 --> 00:12:12,278 I JUST WANT TO SAY A WORD ABOUT 251 00:12:12,278 --> 00:12:16,983 KEN IN LCBG. 252 00:12:16,983 --> 00:12:18,751 KEN CAME -- HE HAD BEEN IN A 253 00:12:18,751 --> 00:12:23,690 NUMBER OF LABORATORIES OVER HIS 254 00:12:23,690 --> 00:12:26,292 CAREER BUT WHEN HE CAME TO LCBG, 255 00:12:26,292 --> 00:12:28,161 I THINK HE REALLY FOUND A HOME. 256 00:12:28,161 --> 00:12:30,096 I CAN TELL YOU THAT FOR ME, AN 257 00:12:30,096 --> 00:12:31,431 M.D., ONE OF THE FEW M.D.s IN 258 00:12:31,431 --> 00:12:33,066 THE LAB, HAVING CLINICIANS IN 259 00:12:33,066 --> 00:12:36,135 THE LAB WAS REALLY, REALLY 260 00:12:36,135 --> 00:12:42,141 IMPORTANT AND ENLIGHTENING AND 261 00:12:42,141 --> 00:12:44,978 THE MANY COMMENTS THAT KEN AND 262 00:12:44,978 --> 00:12:47,380 JOHN GAVE IN SEMINARS AND SO 263 00:12:47,380 --> 00:12:52,118 FORTH REALLY TOLD THE REST OF US 264 00:12:52,118 --> 00:12:53,553 THE RELEVANCE OF SOME OF THE 265 00:12:53,553 --> 00:12:54,721 BASIC RESEARCH FINDINGS. 266 00:12:54,721 --> 00:12:57,557 AND SO THAT WAS VERY, VERY 267 00:12:57,557 --> 00:13:01,227 EXCITING FOR ME TO HAVE KEN IN 268 00:13:01,227 --> 00:13:03,263 THE LAB TO NOT ONLY DO HIS OWN 269 00:13:03,263 --> 00:13:06,332 WORK BUT TO EDUCATE THE RETION 270 00:13:06,332 --> 00:13:10,370 REST OFUS ON THE IMPORTANCE, THE 271 00:13:10,370 --> 00:13:12,305 CLINICAL RELEVANCE, OF BASIC 272 00:13:12,305 --> 00:13:13,206 RESEARCH FINDINGS. 273 00:13:13,206 --> 00:13:17,277 SO I THINK I WENT THROUGH TWO 274 00:13:17,277 --> 00:13:18,578 SITE VISITS WITH KEN IN LCBG, 275 00:13:18,578 --> 00:13:20,346 AND I HAVE BEEN THROUGH A LOT OF 276 00:13:20,346 --> 00:13:24,484 SITE VISITS, BOTH WITHIN MY OWN 277 00:13:24,484 --> 00:13:27,320 CAREER AND THE CAREER OF OTHERS 278 00:13:27,320 --> 00:13:30,823 BECAUSE OF MY TENURE AS A DEPUTY 279 00:13:30,823 --> 00:13:33,893 DIRECTOR FOR SOME YEARS. 280 00:13:33,893 --> 00:13:35,328 KEN IS THE ONLY PERSON WHO WAS 281 00:13:35,328 --> 00:13:40,233 CALLED A NATIONAL TREASURE. 282 00:13:40,233 --> 00:13:41,768 I'D NEVER SEEN THAT IN ANOTHER 283 00:13:41,768 --> 00:13:43,603 SITE VISIT REPORT, BUT I THINK 284 00:13:43,603 --> 00:13:45,305 HE GOT IT IN BOTH OF HIS 285 00:13:45,305 --> 00:13:49,108 REPORTS. 286 00:13:49,108 --> 00:13:51,177 HIS WORK AND KEN WERE DEEMED TO 287 00:13:51,177 --> 00:13:55,214 BE A NATIONAL TREASURE. 288 00:13:55,214 --> 00:13:56,316 AND ONE MORE THING THAT MAYBE 289 00:13:56,316 --> 00:14:00,253 WILL COME UP IN SOME OTHER 290 00:14:00,253 --> 00:14:01,654 PRESENTATION BUT BECAUSE I'M IN 291 00:14:01,654 --> 00:14:04,691 THE SKIN FIELD, AND ATTENDED THE 292 00:14:04,691 --> 00:14:07,026 SOCIETY OF INVESTIGATIVE 293 00:14:07,026 --> 00:14:10,096 DERMATOLOGY MEETINGS, ONE VERY 294 00:14:10,096 --> 00:14:12,598 UNIQUE THING THAT KEN DEVELOPED, 295 00:14:12,598 --> 00:14:14,467 I THINK WE'LL HEAR ABOUT HIS 296 00:14:14,467 --> 00:14:17,003 MENTORING FROM HIS DIRECT 297 00:14:17,003 --> 00:14:20,473 MENTORS, BUT EVERY YEAR WHEN THE 298 00:14:20,473 --> 00:14:22,141 SID MEETING WAS HELD, AGAIN I'M 299 00:14:22,141 --> 00:14:24,310 NOT SURE HOW HE PULLED THIS OFF, 300 00:14:24,310 --> 00:14:26,813 BUT KEN WAS ABLE TO HARNESS A 301 00:14:26,813 --> 00:14:28,281 POSSE OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS 302 00:14:28,281 --> 00:14:31,751 AND BROUGHT THEM TO THE MEETING, 303 00:14:31,751 --> 00:14:34,387 PUT THEM IN SESSIONS, HAD THEM 304 00:14:34,387 --> 00:14:37,323 INTRODUCED TO SPEAKER, WAS 305 00:14:37,323 --> 00:14:39,892 REALLY SOMETHING TO SEE AND MUST 306 00:14:39,892 --> 00:14:42,695 HAVE BEEN VERY DIFFICULT TO 307 00:14:42,695 --> 00:14:44,230 ORGANIZE. 308 00:14:44,230 --> 00:14:45,598 I DON'T THINK THERE'S A WAY TO 309 00:14:45,598 --> 00:14:46,733 KNOW BUT I WONDER HOW MANY OF 310 00:14:46,733 --> 00:14:49,369 THOSE KIDS WHO CAME IN CITIES 311 00:14:49,369 --> 00:14:51,437 ALL OVER THE COUNTRY ULTIMATELY 312 00:14:51,437 --> 00:14:54,173 CHOSE MEDICINE OR EVEN 313 00:14:54,173 --> 00:14:57,577 DERMATOLOGY AS THEIR FIELD. 314 00:14:57,577 --> 00:14:58,711 SO I THINK WE HAVE A LOT TO 315 00:14:58,711 --> 00:14:59,846 THANK YOU FOR, KEN. 316 00:14:59,846 --> 00:15:03,483 BEFORE I STOP, I WANT TO SAY 317 00:15:03,483 --> 00:15:05,885 SOMETHING ABOUT -- SOMETHING 318 00:15:05,885 --> 00:15:07,186 THAT PERHAPS I'M THE ONLY ONE 319 00:15:07,186 --> 00:15:11,023 WHO COULD SAY IT. 320 00:15:11,023 --> 00:15:12,558 SO DORIS ACCOMPANIED KEN TO 321 00:15:12,558 --> 00:15:13,860 ALMOST EVERY MEETING I EVER 322 00:15:13,860 --> 00:15:14,961 ATTENDED WITH THEM. 323 00:15:14,961 --> 00:15:16,162 AND IT WAS ALWAYS WONDERFUL TO 324 00:15:16,162 --> 00:15:18,030 SEE THEM TOGETHER. 325 00:15:18,030 --> 00:15:20,099 BUT DORIS HAD HER OWN ROLE. 326 00:15:20,099 --> 00:15:21,868 DORIS WAS A SCIENCE TEACHER AT 327 00:15:21,868 --> 00:15:25,571 CHURCHILL HIGH SCHOOL, AND ONE 328 00:15:25,571 --> 00:15:26,873 OF THE THINGS THAT SEPARATED 329 00:15:26,873 --> 00:15:30,710 DORIS FROM OTHER SCIENCE TEAC 330 00:15:30,710 --> 00:15:32,245 TEACHERS WAS HER ACTING SKILLS. 331 00:15:32,245 --> 00:15:34,380 SO EVERY YEAR, CHURCHILL PUT ON 332 00:15:34,380 --> 00:15:37,350 A PLAY, A FALL PLAY, I THINK IT 333 00:15:37,350 --> 00:15:38,818 WAS, THAT WAS VERY HIGHLY 334 00:15:38,818 --> 00:15:40,086 ATTENDED, WENT ON FOR FOUR 335 00:15:40,086 --> 00:15:42,321 NIGHTS AND EVERYONE LOVED IT. 336 00:15:42,321 --> 00:15:43,956 BUT THERE WAS A FACULTY MEMBER 337 00:15:43,956 --> 00:15:46,025 IN THOSE PLAYS, AND THAT WAS 338 00:15:46,025 --> 00:15:47,727 DORIS. 339 00:15:47,727 --> 00:15:49,529 DORIS ACTED -- ALWAYS HAD A ROLE 340 00:15:49,529 --> 00:15:50,963 IN THOSE PLAYS, AND I CAN TELL 341 00:15:50,963 --> 00:15:53,566 YOU THAT EVERY TIME SHE CAME OUT 342 00:15:53,566 --> 00:15:58,070 ON STAGE, THE LOUDEST APPLAUSE 343 00:15:58,070 --> 00:16:02,542 OF ANYONE ON THAT ENSEMBLE. 344 00:16:02,542 --> 00:16:05,378 SO IN ADDITION TO BEING A 345 00:16:05,378 --> 00:16:07,146 SCIENCE TEACHER AND RAISING FOUR 346 00:16:07,146 --> 00:16:10,082 KIDS, WE HAVE TO GIVE DORIS SOME 347 00:16:10,082 --> 00:16:15,588 KUDOS FOR HER ACTING SKILLS. 348 00:16:15,588 --> 00:16:24,630 [APPLAUSE] 349 00:16:24,630 --> 00:16:26,499 AND THE LIVES YOU'VE TOUCHED, 350 00:16:26,499 --> 00:16:28,468 BOTH YOUR TRAINEES, YOUR 351 00:16:28,468 --> 00:16:30,069 COLLEAGUES, AND THE PATIENTS WHO 352 00:16:30,069 --> 00:16:34,273 YOU HELPED TO GET THROUGH A VERY 353 00:16:34,273 --> 00:16:36,008 DIFFICULT SET OF DISEASES. 354 00:16:36,008 --> 00:16:38,311 SO WE ALL REALLY OWE YOU A GREAT 355 00:16:38,311 --> 00:16:41,280 DEAL OF APPRECIATION, AND IT'S 356 00:16:41,280 --> 00:16:43,182 BEEN A PLEASURE WORKING WITH YOU 357 00:16:43,182 --> 00:16:45,551 OVER THE YEARS. 358 00:16:45,551 --> 00:16:46,419 YOU WERE IN LCBG. 359 00:16:46,419 --> 00:16:47,420 THANK YOU. 360 00:16:47,420 --> 00:16:56,295 [APPLAUSE] 361 00:16:56,295 --> 00:16:57,563 >> THANK YOU, STU. 362 00:16:57,563 --> 00:16:58,431 THAT WAS AMAZING. 363 00:16:58,431 --> 00:17:00,066 GOES TO SHOW HOW WELL HE KNOWS 364 00:17:00,066 --> 00:17:01,501 KEN. 365 00:17:01,501 --> 00:17:04,203 NEXT I WOULD LIKE TO CALL UPON 366 00:17:04,203 --> 00:17:14,447 VILHELM BOHR. 367 00:17:18,184 --> 00:17:19,452 >> JEROME, CAN YOU SEND ME A 368 00:17:19,452 --> 00:17:24,357 CHAT ABOUT HOW TO ENLARGE THE -- 369 00:17:24,357 --> 00:17:25,691 WHERE WE SEE EACH INDIVIDUAL ON 370 00:17:25,691 --> 00:17:35,902 THE SCREEN? 371 00:17:38,638 --> 00:17:40,673 DEAR KEN. 372 00:17:40,673 --> 00:17:43,142 CONGRATULATIONS AND I ALSO WISH 373 00:17:43,142 --> 00:17:46,012 TO EXPRESS MY MANY THANKS FOR 374 00:17:46,012 --> 00:17:49,515 YOUR FRIENDSHIP, WHICH HAS BEEN 375 00:17:49,515 --> 00:17:50,416 VERY IMPORTANT OVER THE YEARS. 376 00:17:50,416 --> 00:17:51,717 WE'VE WORKED TOGETHER FOR SO 377 00:17:51,717 --> 00:17:53,553 MANY YEARS. 378 00:17:53,553 --> 00:17:56,756 AND THIS EXTENDS FROM 379 00:17:56,756 --> 00:17:58,858 DISCUSSIONS ABOUT SCIENCE TO 380 00:17:58,858 --> 00:18:00,660 PRACTICAL DISCUSSIONS ABOUT THIS 381 00:18:00,660 --> 00:18:02,428 DNA REPAIR INTEREST GROUP TO 382 00:18:02,428 --> 00:18:03,729 MANY OTHER THINGS AND MANY 383 00:18:03,729 --> 00:18:06,265 MEETINGS THAT WE HAVE SHARED. 384 00:18:06,265 --> 00:18:07,466 I'LL SHOW A FEW PICTURES FROM 385 00:18:07,466 --> 00:18:07,800 IT. 386 00:18:07,800 --> 00:18:11,404 AND I' I'LL FOCUS ON THE WORK TT 387 00:18:11,404 --> 00:18:12,605 WE'VE DONE TOGETHER IN THE 388 00:18:12,605 --> 00:18:14,574 INTEREST GROUP. 389 00:18:14,574 --> 00:18:17,843 BUT ALSO YOU AND I HAVE SHARED 390 00:18:17,843 --> 00:18:19,178 SOME MEETINGS THAT WERE REALLY 391 00:18:19,178 --> 00:18:23,950 INTERESTING WHERE WE -- AS STU 392 00:18:23,950 --> 00:18:25,184 JUST MENTIONED TO THE CLINICAL 393 00:18:25,184 --> 00:18:28,020 PEOPLE, THE BASIC PEOPLE, AND WE 394 00:18:28,020 --> 00:18:31,524 REALLY, I THINK, WERE -- IT WAS 395 00:18:31,524 --> 00:18:34,460 A BIT NULL AT THE TIME AT LEAST 396 00:18:34,460 --> 00:18:35,795 IN DNA REPAIR TO BRING PEOPLE 397 00:18:35,795 --> 00:18:37,630 TOGETHER LIKE THAT. 398 00:18:37,630 --> 00:18:38,965 FOR SOME OF THE SCIENTISTS TO 399 00:18:38,965 --> 00:18:41,367 SEE AN ACTUAL PATIENT WAS A VERY 400 00:18:41,367 --> 00:18:43,102 NEW THING IN THEIR EXPERIENCE, 401 00:18:43,102 --> 00:18:45,838 AND WE HAD MANY SCIENTISTS THAT 402 00:18:45,838 --> 00:18:47,607 LEARNED A LOT FROM THAT AND THAT 403 00:18:47,607 --> 00:18:49,875 CHANGED THE DIRECTIONS OF WHERE 404 00:18:49,875 --> 00:18:52,945 THEY WERE GOING. 405 00:18:52,945 --> 00:18:55,681 SO ALSO WE PUBLISHED SOME PAPERS 406 00:18:55,681 --> 00:18:57,350 TOGETHER AND THE BEST WISHES 407 00:18:57,350 --> 00:19:01,187 GOING FORWARD. 408 00:19:01,187 --> 00:19:02,788 I WAS ASKED TO SAY A LITTLE 409 00:19:02,788 --> 00:19:07,126 ABOUT THIS GROUP GROUP DNA REPAT 410 00:19:07,126 --> 00:19:07,393 GROUP. 411 00:19:07,393 --> 00:19:09,795 IT STARTED WAY BACK IN 1986. 412 00:19:09,795 --> 00:19:13,466 I CAME FR TO THE NIH FROM STANF, 413 00:19:13,466 --> 00:19:14,834 I HAD BEEN WORKING FOR SEVERAL 414 00:19:14,834 --> 00:19:16,168 YEARS AT THE TIME IN DNA REPAIR 415 00:19:16,168 --> 00:19:17,870 AND I WAS LOOKING AT WHO WERE 416 00:19:17,870 --> 00:19:19,205 REALLY PROMINENT IN THE FIELD 417 00:19:19,205 --> 00:19:22,375 HERE, AND OF COURSE THAT WAS 418 00:19:22,375 --> 00:19:24,343 KEN, SO I WALKED UP TO KEN AND 419 00:19:24,343 --> 00:19:26,212 SAID WHY DON'T WE HAVE SOME 420 00:19:26,212 --> 00:19:27,279 SEMINAR TOGETHER? 421 00:19:27,279 --> 00:19:28,614 AT FIRST KEN SAID, WELL, I'M NOT 422 00:19:28,614 --> 00:19:32,652 SURE ABOUT THAT. 423 00:19:32,652 --> 00:19:34,487 AND THEN LATER HE AGREED AND 424 00:19:34,487 --> 00:19:36,155 OVER THE YEARS ACTUALLY BECAME 425 00:19:36,155 --> 00:19:38,658 THE MOST ENERGETIC OF THE TWO OF 426 00:19:38,658 --> 00:19:40,559 US MAYBE IN ALL THESE JOINT 427 00:19:40,559 --> 00:19:44,597 MEETINGS THAT WE HAD. 428 00:19:44,597 --> 00:19:47,433 SO THAT STARTED THE DNA REPAIR 429 00:19:47,433 --> 00:19:48,968 INTEREST GROUP. 430 00:19:48,968 --> 00:19:52,038 BACK THEN WE BEGAN MAYBE IN -- I 431 00:19:52,038 --> 00:19:55,975 WOULD SAY 86:00, MAYBE 85:00, 432 00:19:55,975 --> 00:19:57,376 AND THEN WE HAD A NUMBER OF 433 00:19:57,376 --> 00:20:01,547 CONFERENCES THAT WERE FIRST IN 434 00:20:01,547 --> 00:20:02,848 PERSON, BUILDING 37 WHERE WE 435 00:20:02,848 --> 00:20:04,050 INVITED SOME SPEAKERS IN, AND 436 00:20:04,050 --> 00:20:06,252 THEY WERE ACTUALLY SUCCESSFUL 437 00:20:06,252 --> 00:20:08,421 BECAUSE WE WERE ABLE TO FIND 438 00:20:08,421 --> 00:20:10,289 MANY CANDIDATES THAT LATER GOT 439 00:20:10,289 --> 00:20:11,457 SOME GOOD JOB OPPORTUNITIES OUT 440 00:20:11,457 --> 00:20:13,993 OF THIS. 441 00:20:13,993 --> 00:20:17,730 AND THEN WE HAD THESE VERY 442 00:20:17,730 --> 00:20:18,764 ELABORATE VIDEO CONFERENCES AT 443 00:20:18,764 --> 00:20:20,232 THE TIME THAT THIS WAS VERY 444 00:20:20,232 --> 00:20:22,001 NOVEL TO HAVE VIDEO CONFERENCES 445 00:20:22,001 --> 00:20:25,705 AND VERY CHALLENGING. 446 00:20:25,705 --> 00:20:27,206 AND WE HAD THESE MANY SITES ALL 447 00:20:27,206 --> 00:20:28,674 OVER THE U.S. AND WE HAD TO 448 00:20:28,674 --> 00:20:31,711 COORDINATE ALL THIS VIDEO 449 00:20:31,711 --> 00:20:35,347 TRANSFER BETWEEN THE SITES, AND 450 00:20:35,347 --> 00:20:37,850 THEN WE STARTED ARCHIVING THE 451 00:20:37,850 --> 00:20:41,587 LECTURES, AND WE HAD A LONG LIST 452 00:20:41,587 --> 00:20:43,756 OF PEOPLE WHO GOT EMAILED, THIS 453 00:20:43,756 --> 00:20:45,391 WAS MAINLY DONE BY YOU, KEN. 454 00:20:45,391 --> 00:20:48,694 IT WAS A GREAT EFFORT TO INFORM 455 00:20:48,694 --> 00:20:50,329 PEOPLE ABOUT MEETINGS AND OTHER 456 00:20:50,329 --> 00:20:52,932 THINGS AND LATER THIS GREW TO BE 457 00:20:52,932 --> 00:20:54,467 INFORMING ABOUT JOB 458 00:20:54,467 --> 00:20:56,769 OPPORTUNITIES, ABOUT DNA REPAIR 459 00:20:56,769 --> 00:21:01,807 MEETINGS WORLDWIDE. 460 00:21:01,807 --> 00:21:05,945 AND AT THE TIME HERE, IN 2009 461 00:21:05,945 --> 00:21:09,882 AND 10, WE MADE A HISTORIC 462 00:21:09,882 --> 00:21:11,517 COUPLE OF MEETINGS WHERE WE 463 00:21:11,517 --> 00:21:18,224 SHOWED SOME OF THESE VIDEOS, AND 464 00:21:18,224 --> 00:21:19,425 WE HAD SOME REALLY 465 00:21:19,425 --> 00:21:20,159 INTERESTING -- IT WAS FIRST 466 00:21:20,159 --> 00:21:22,595 MENTIONED HERE THAT WE HAD A 467 00:21:22,595 --> 00:21:24,096 NUMBER OF LINKED SITES, WE HAD 468 00:21:24,096 --> 00:21:25,097 NATIONAL LABS AROUND THE 469 00:21:25,097 --> 00:21:26,398 COUNTRY, WE HAD UNIVERSITIES. 470 00:21:26,398 --> 00:21:29,235 SO IT WAS VERY COMPLICATED ADD 471 00:21:29,235 --> 00:21:30,903 CHALLENGING TO GET ALL THIS TO 472 00:21:30,903 --> 00:21:32,304 WORK, BUT IT USUALLY WORKED, 473 00:21:32,304 --> 00:21:34,874 ALTHOUGH WE HAD SOME CRASHES IN 474 00:21:34,874 --> 00:21:36,575 BETWEEN AS WELL. 475 00:21:36,575 --> 00:21:39,545 AND THIS IS JUST AN EXAMPLE OF 476 00:21:39,545 --> 00:21:41,280 BACK TO 2010, SOME OF THE 477 00:21:41,280 --> 00:21:43,582 SPEAKERS WE HAD AND MANY OF 478 00:21:43,582 --> 00:21:44,583 THESE ARE WELL-KNOWN TO YOU IN 479 00:21:44,583 --> 00:21:46,752 THE FIELD. 480 00:21:46,752 --> 00:21:51,557 IN THE END HERE, MAY 12, 2009, 481 00:21:51,557 --> 00:21:55,194 HISTORICAL COLLECTION AND THESE 482 00:21:55,194 --> 00:21:56,362 WERE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE 483 00:21:56,362 --> 00:21:59,765 SHOWED ON THAT OCCASION. 484 00:21:59,765 --> 00:22:06,505 SO FOR EXAMPLE, CARL SETLOY WAS 485 00:22:06,505 --> 00:22:08,307 A VERY IMPORTANT PERSON IN THE 486 00:22:08,307 --> 00:22:09,408 EARLY DISCOVERY OF NUTRITION 487 00:22:09,408 --> 00:22:10,042 REPAIR. 488 00:22:10,042 --> 00:22:11,544 THE FAMOUS TALK BY LARRY 489 00:22:11,544 --> 00:22:13,979 GROSSMAN WHO DISCOVERED MANY DNA 490 00:22:13,979 --> 00:22:15,314 REPAIR SIGNS WHERE HE ALSO 491 00:22:15,314 --> 00:22:16,715 TALKED ABOUT HIS -- HE WAS A 492 00:22:16,715 --> 00:22:22,421 FIGHTER PILOT IN THE WAR OVER IN 493 00:22:22,421 --> 00:22:25,491 JAPAN AND HAD VERY TRAUMATIC 494 00:22:25,491 --> 00:22:26,025 EXPERIENCES. 495 00:22:26,025 --> 00:22:29,528 WE HEARD ABOUT KLIBER'S TALK, 496 00:22:29,528 --> 00:22:31,697 BACK TO WHEN HE DISCOVERED THAT 497 00:22:31,697 --> 00:22:33,966 XP WAS ASSOCIATED WITH CANCER. 498 00:22:33,966 --> 00:22:36,836 WE HEARD ABOUT TRANSCRIPTION 499 00:22:36,836 --> 00:22:38,604 COUPLED REPAIR AND WE HAD SOME 500 00:22:38,604 --> 00:22:41,006 OTHER MEETINGS THAT TALKED ABOUT 501 00:22:41,006 --> 00:22:43,642 SOME CONTROVERSIAL WORK AT THE 502 00:22:43,642 --> 00:22:45,511 TIME. 503 00:22:45,511 --> 00:22:46,912 AND HERE IS ANOTHER LIST, JUST 504 00:22:46,912 --> 00:22:47,980 EXAMPLES OF PEOPLE THAT WE 505 00:22:47,980 --> 00:22:51,116 INVITED TO COME AND TALK, AND 506 00:22:51,116 --> 00:22:52,151 MANY OF THESE WILL BE VERY 507 00:22:52,151 --> 00:22:54,453 WELL-KNOWN TO YOU IN THIS 508 00:22:54,453 --> 00:22:55,788 AUDIENCE. 509 00:22:55,788 --> 00:22:59,158 WE HAD YOUNG PEOPLE TALK, WE HAD 510 00:22:59,158 --> 00:23:01,160 TUMOR INVESTIGATORS, SENIOR 511 00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:01,994 INVESTIGATORS AND HISTORICAL 512 00:23:01,994 --> 00:23:05,631 TALKS. 513 00:23:05,631 --> 00:23:08,367 AND THESE WERE SOME MORE VIDEOS 514 00:23:08,367 --> 00:23:12,071 THAT REFLECTED SPECIFIC VERY 515 00:23:12,071 --> 00:23:16,976 IMPORTANT COLLECTIONS BECAUSE 516 00:23:16,976 --> 00:23:18,410 MANY OF THESE PEOPLE HAVE SINCE 517 00:23:18,410 --> 00:23:19,678 PASSED AND NOW WE HAVE RECORDS 518 00:23:19,678 --> 00:23:23,549 AND THEY'RE STILL THERE IN THE 519 00:23:23,549 --> 00:23:25,084 DNA REPAIR GROUP AND WE SEE 520 00:23:25,084 --> 00:23:26,185 THESE PEOPLE AS THEY TALKED 521 00:23:26,185 --> 00:23:32,291 ABOUT THEIR WORK. 522 00:23:32,291 --> 00:23:35,561 CLONING THE ATM BETWEEN, THE 523 00:23:35,561 --> 00:23:36,795 VERY INTERESTING HISTORIC 524 00:23:36,795 --> 00:23:37,763 PERSPECTIVE AND OTHER PEOPLE 525 00:23:37,763 --> 00:23:41,834 THAT ARE WELL-KNOWN ON 526 00:23:41,834 --> 00:23:42,935 SENESCENCE AND AGING WHO HAS 527 00:23:42,935 --> 00:23:44,103 RECENTLY PASSED, AND THESE ARE 528 00:23:44,103 --> 00:23:46,105 RECORDS THAT WE NOW HAVE. 529 00:23:46,105 --> 00:23:48,607 MAINLY THANKS TO YOU, KEN, 530 00:23:48,607 --> 00:23:49,909 BECAUSE YOU PUSHED THAT, THAT WE 531 00:23:49,909 --> 00:23:51,210 SHOULD REALLY KEEP THESE THINGS 532 00:23:51,210 --> 00:23:52,411 AND THAT'S BEEN A TREASURE. 533 00:23:52,411 --> 00:23:58,784 AND HERE WE ARE AGAIN AT ONE OF 534 00:23:58,784 --> 00:24:00,185 OUR MEETINGS CHATTING TOGETHER A 535 00:24:00,185 --> 00:24:00,953 FEW YEARS AGO. 536 00:24:00,953 --> 00:24:03,923 SO THE DNA REPAIR INTEREST GROUP 537 00:24:03,923 --> 00:24:06,425 IS STILL GOING STRONG. 538 00:24:06,425 --> 00:24:10,896 THANKS TO THE EFFORTS OF THOSE 539 00:24:10,896 --> 00:24:13,866 WHO HAVE TAKEN THIS OVER AND WE 540 00:24:13,866 --> 00:24:17,236 HAVE A ADVISORY GROUP AND IT 541 00:24:17,236 --> 00:24:20,539 STILL GOES STRONG IN MONTHLY 542 00:24:20,539 --> 00:24:21,640 MEETINGS WITH VERY EXCITING 543 00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:22,174 TALKS. 544 00:24:22,174 --> 00:24:24,677 SO PLEASE KEEP LISTENING TO 545 00:24:24,677 --> 00:24:25,144 THOSE. 546 00:24:25,144 --> 00:24:29,014 AND KEN AND I, WE HAD MANY 547 00:24:29,014 --> 00:24:31,250 WONDERFUL EXPERIENCES IN 548 00:24:31,250 --> 00:24:35,087 MEETINGS AROUND THE WORLD, AND 549 00:24:35,087 --> 00:24:36,388 DORIS, IT WAS ALWAYS GOOD TO SEE 550 00:24:36,388 --> 00:24:37,690 YOU AT THE MEETINGS, MY WIFE 551 00:24:37,690 --> 00:24:38,857 ANNE USUALLY CAME ALONG, AND 552 00:24:38,857 --> 00:24:40,659 THIS WAS JUST ONE OF OUR EARLY 553 00:24:40,659 --> 00:24:43,295 DNA REPAIR MEETINGS, KEN, WE CAN 554 00:24:43,295 --> 00:24:51,070 SEE YOU HAD -- AND OTHER 555 00:24:51,070 --> 00:24:54,106 COLLEAGUES. 556 00:24:54,106 --> 00:24:55,874 SO I JUST WANT TO THEN THANK YOU 557 00:24:55,874 --> 00:24:57,309 FOR THIS GREAT COLLABORATION 558 00:24:57,309 --> 00:25:00,145 WE'VE HAD, AND FOR YOUR EFFORTS 559 00:25:00,145 --> 00:25:01,981 IN THE INTEREST GROUP AND FOR 560 00:25:01,981 --> 00:25:03,615 MANY OTHER THINGS, AND I KNOW 561 00:25:03,615 --> 00:25:04,717 WE'LL STAY IN TOUCH AND I WISH 562 00:25:04,717 --> 00:25:05,584 YOU THE VERY BEST, KEN. 563 00:25:05,584 --> 00:25:06,185 THANK YOU. 564 00:25:06,185 --> 00:25:16,362 [APPLAUSE] 565 00:25:19,465 --> 00:25:22,901 >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH, VILHELM 566 00:25:22,901 --> 00:25:23,268 BOHR. 567 00:25:23,268 --> 00:25:27,039 NEXT I WOULD LIKE TO CALL UPON 568 00:25:27,039 --> 00:25:36,115 MARGARET TUCKER. 569 00:25:36,115 --> 00:25:37,750 IT'S CLEAR THAT YOU ARE 570 00:25:37,750 --> 00:25:39,284 TRAILBLAZERS, SETTING THE STAGE 571 00:25:39,284 --> 00:25:41,387 ON CONDITIONS THAT NEVER EXISTED 572 00:25:41,387 --> 00:25:42,955 WITH INTEREST GROUPS, NOW WE 573 00:25:42,955 --> 00:25:44,223 HAVE A LOT OF INTEREST GROUPS, 574 00:25:44,223 --> 00:25:48,060 SO GREAT JOB. 575 00:25:48,060 --> 00:25:49,261 >> GOOD AFTERNOON. 576 00:25:49,261 --> 00:25:51,764 I'M DEEPLY HONORED TO BE PART OF 577 00:25:51,764 --> 00:25:53,832 THIS CELEBRATION OF KEN AND HIS 578 00:25:53,832 --> 00:25:55,334 MANY ACCOMPLISHMENTS. 579 00:25:55,334 --> 00:25:59,104 IT A TESTAMENT TO KEN'S 580 00:25:59,104 --> 00:26:01,106 COLLEGIALITY, GENEROSITY, AND 581 00:26:01,106 --> 00:26:04,443 BREADTH OF INTEREST THAT SO MANY 582 00:26:04,443 --> 00:26:06,311 SPEAKERS ARE ON THIS PROGRAM 583 00:26:06,311 --> 00:26:07,379 TODAY. 584 00:26:07,379 --> 00:26:08,814 I FIRST MET KEN IN THE LATE 585 00:26:08,814 --> 00:26:12,251 70s, WHEN I CAME TO THE NCI AS 586 00:26:12,251 --> 00:26:15,487 A CLINICAL FELLOW TO WORK IN THE 587 00:26:15,487 --> 00:26:18,991 EPIDEMIOLOGY BRANCH LED BY 588 00:26:18,991 --> 00:26:20,759 DR. JOE FARMINI. 589 00:26:20,759 --> 00:26:24,263 I HAD WORKED WITH DR. FRED LEE 590 00:26:24,263 --> 00:26:25,998 IN BOSTON FOR SEVERAL YEARS AS A 591 00:26:25,998 --> 00:26:26,999 MEDICAL STUDENT AND BECAME 592 00:26:26,999 --> 00:26:29,268 INTRIGUED WITH THE ETIOLOGY OF 593 00:26:29,268 --> 00:26:31,570 FAMILIAL CANCER. 594 00:26:31,570 --> 00:26:33,739 WHEN I ARRIVED AT THE NCI, I 595 00:26:33,739 --> 00:26:35,841 WORKED WITH DR. MARK GREEN, A 596 00:26:35,841 --> 00:26:38,010 MEDICAL ONCOLOGIST, WHO WAS 597 00:26:38,010 --> 00:26:39,878 INITIATING A STUDY OF FAMILIAL 598 00:26:39,878 --> 00:26:41,280 MELANOMA. 599 00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:46,785 AS AN EXPERT IN DISEASES -- 600 00:26:46,785 --> 00:26:48,487 GREATLY INCREASED RISK OF 601 00:26:48,487 --> 00:26:49,721 MELANOMA, KEN WAS A VITAL 602 00:26:49,721 --> 00:26:50,956 PARTNER IN THE DESIGN, 603 00:26:50,956 --> 00:26:54,093 DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION 604 00:26:54,093 --> 00:26:59,031 OF THE STUDY. 605 00:26:59,031 --> 00:27:01,667 -- IDENTIFIED SEVERAL FAMILIES 606 00:27:01,667 --> 00:27:03,735 IN WHO TWO OR MORE LIVING 607 00:27:03,735 --> 00:27:07,739 INDIVIDUALS HAD HAD MELANOMA. 608 00:27:07,739 --> 00:27:11,477 AT THE TIME IN THE MID 70s, 609 00:27:11,477 --> 00:27:15,881 THIS WAS VERY UNUSUAL. 610 00:27:15,881 --> 00:27:17,516 CLINICAL EXAMINATIONS WERE A 611 00:27:17,516 --> 00:27:18,450 VITAL COMPONENT OF THE STUDY 612 00:27:18,450 --> 00:27:19,251 FROM THE VERY BEGINNING. 613 00:27:19,251 --> 00:27:23,755 KEN WAS EXTREMELY GENEROUS IN 614 00:27:23,755 --> 00:27:26,358 GIVING US LOTS OF TIME FOR 615 00:27:26,358 --> 00:27:29,261 CLINICAL EXAMINATIONS, FOR GOING 616 00:27:29,261 --> 00:27:30,863 OUT OF TOWN TO VISIT FAMILIES 617 00:27:30,863 --> 00:27:33,465 WHO WEREN'T WILLING TO COME TO 618 00:27:33,465 --> 00:27:36,401 THE NIH, AND HE WAS ALWAYS A 619 00:27:36,401 --> 00:27:41,140 HUGE PART OF ANY INVESTIGATIVE 620 00:27:41,140 --> 00:27:48,680 WORK WE DID. 621 00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:54,920 KEN WAS ALSO EXTREMELY GENEROUS 622 00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:55,988 IN TRAVELING WITH US, BECAUSE 623 00:27:55,988 --> 00:27:56,989 LOTS OF TIMES THE FAMILIES 624 00:27:56,989 --> 00:27:58,423 WOULDN'T BE WILLING TO COME TO 625 00:27:58,423 --> 00:27:59,725 NIH SO WE'D HAVE TO GO OUT OF 626 00:27:59,725 --> 00:28:04,329 TOWN TO SEE THEM. 627 00:28:04,329 --> 00:28:05,864 IN EXAMINING THESE FAMILY 628 00:28:05,864 --> 00:28:07,733 MEMBERS, WE FOUND THOSE WHO HAD 629 00:28:07,733 --> 00:28:10,869 DEVELOPED MELANOMA HAD QUITE 630 00:28:10,869 --> 00:28:13,071 DISTINCT, RELATIVELY LARGE -- 631 00:28:13,071 --> 00:28:15,607 THAT WERE IRREGULAR IN OUTLINE, 632 00:28:15,607 --> 00:28:17,876 OFTEN PREDOMINANTLY BLACK AND 633 00:28:17,876 --> 00:28:18,977 MULTICOLORED. 634 00:28:18,977 --> 00:28:23,248 THEY WERE RI ORIGINALLY DESCRIBD 635 00:28:23,248 --> 00:28:27,186 AS -- MOLES -- OF THE FIRST TWO 636 00:28:27,186 --> 00:28:28,287 FAMILIES ENROLLED IN THE STUDY. 637 00:28:28,287 --> 00:28:31,657 WHEN THE HISTOLOGY OF THE 638 00:28:31,657 --> 00:28:34,493 EXCISED LESIONS FROM MULTIPLE 639 00:28:34,493 --> 00:28:37,362 FAMILY WAS EVALUATED BY 640 00:28:37,362 --> 00:28:40,098 DR. WALLACE CLARKE, THE 641 00:28:40,098 --> 00:28:41,266 PROMINENT DERMATOPATHOLOGIST AND 642 00:28:41,266 --> 00:28:42,601 CLOSE COLLABORATOR, THE 643 00:28:42,601 --> 00:28:45,237 NOMENCLATURE EVOLVED TO 644 00:28:45,237 --> 00:28:46,972 DYSPLASTIC -- TO DESCRIBE THE 645 00:28:46,972 --> 00:28:48,307 HISTOLOGIC FEATURES. 646 00:28:48,307 --> 00:28:51,476 IN THE PARTICIPATING MELANOMA 647 00:28:51,476 --> 00:28:55,514 PRONE FAMILY, THESE UNUSUAL -- 648 00:28:55,514 --> 00:28:59,551 HAVE CLINICALLY IDENTIFIED THOSE 649 00:28:59,551 --> 00:29:00,886 AT SUBSTANTIALLY INCREASED RISK 650 00:29:00,886 --> 00:29:02,187 OF MELANOMA. 651 00:29:02,187 --> 00:29:03,388 AFTER MARK GREEN LEFT THE NCI 652 00:29:03,388 --> 00:29:05,691 AND BECAME THE P.I. OF THE 653 00:29:05,691 --> 00:29:08,860 STUDY, WE WERE VERY FORTUNATE TO 654 00:29:08,860 --> 00:29:11,797 HIRE DR. LISA GOLDSTEIN AS OUR 655 00:29:11,797 --> 00:29:13,131 GENETICIST AND TO CONTINUE 656 00:29:13,131 --> 00:29:16,201 WORKING WITH KEN AND HIS 657 00:29:16,201 --> 00:29:21,873 COLLEAGUE, DR. JOHN --. 658 00:29:21,873 --> 00:29:24,476 WE COULD NOT HAVE FOUND BETTER 659 00:29:24,476 --> 00:29:27,479 PARTNERS OR ANY OTHER PARTNERS 660 00:29:27,479 --> 00:29:30,515 WHO WOULD BE AS GENEROUS, 661 00:29:30,515 --> 00:29:33,151 KNOWLEDGEABLE, CORDIAL AND 662 00:29:33,151 --> 00:29:35,520 COLLEGIAL AS KEN AND JOHN. 663 00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:40,025 -- WORKED CLOSELY WITH KEN AND 664 00:29:40,025 --> 00:29:42,160 JOHN TO ESTABLISH THAT XERODERMA 665 00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:43,962 PIGMENTOSUM PATIENTS ALSO HAVE 666 00:29:43,962 --> 00:29:45,664 INCREASED RISK OF PREMATURE 667 00:29:45,664 --> 00:29:47,266 AGING AND EARLY DEATH. 668 00:29:47,266 --> 00:29:48,333 SEVERAL YEARS FURTHER INTO THE 669 00:29:48,333 --> 00:29:51,837 FAMILIAL STUDY, ALISA IDENTIFIED 670 00:29:51,837 --> 00:29:55,240 GENES THAT WERE IN TWO SETS OF 671 00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:56,642 FAMILIES WITH MULTIPLE 672 00:29:56,642 --> 00:30:00,479 INDIVIDUALS WITH MELANOMA, FIRST 673 00:30:00,479 --> 00:30:02,681 CDKN2A, THEN CBK4. 674 00:30:02,681 --> 00:30:04,549 THERE ARE DIFFERENCES IN CANCER 675 00:30:04,549 --> 00:30:05,717 RISK AND FAMILY IN THE TWO 676 00:30:05,717 --> 00:30:07,252 GROUPS OF FAMILIES. 677 00:30:07,252 --> 00:30:11,757 SOME FAMILIES ALSO HAVE AN 678 00:30:11,757 --> 00:30:15,594 INCREASED RISK OF DEVELOPING 679 00:30:15,594 --> 00:30:17,562 PANCREATIC CANCER, AND AS 680 00:30:17,562 --> 00:30:19,731 RECENTLY IDENTIFIED BY 681 00:30:19,731 --> 00:30:21,366 DR. MICHAEL SERGEANT, A NEXT 682 00:30:21,366 --> 00:30:23,435 GENERATION CLINICAL RESEARCHER 683 00:30:23,435 --> 00:30:28,273 STUDYING FAMILIAL MELANOMA WITH 684 00:30:28,273 --> 00:30:28,907 US. 685 00:30:28,907 --> 00:30:30,242 OTHER SMOKING-RELATED CANCERS 686 00:30:30,242 --> 00:30:32,077 ARE ALSO INCREASED. 687 00:30:32,077 --> 00:30:33,312 THERE'S STILL MUCH WORK TO BE 688 00:30:33,312 --> 00:30:35,047 DONE TO DEVELOP APPROPRIATE 689 00:30:35,047 --> 00:30:36,348 SCREENING AND POSSIBLE 690 00:30:36,348 --> 00:30:38,884 INTERVENTIONS FOR THESE DEADLY 691 00:30:38,884 --> 00:30:40,185 DISEASES. 692 00:30:40,185 --> 00:30:41,820 SO FAR WE HAVE NOT SEEN AN 693 00:30:41,820 --> 00:30:43,255 INCREASED RISK OF PANCREATIC 694 00:30:43,255 --> 00:30:46,391 CANCER OR OTHER SMOKING-RELATED 695 00:30:46,391 --> 00:30:49,094 CANCERS DEVELOPING IN 696 00:30:49,094 --> 00:30:52,197 INDIVIDUALS WITH CDK4. 697 00:30:52,197 --> 00:30:52,631 4 MUTATIONS. 698 00:30:52,631 --> 00:30:54,366 IN ALL THESE PROJECTS, KEN HAS 699 00:30:54,366 --> 00:30:58,470 BEEN AN ESSENTIAL AND INVALUABLE 700 00:30:58,470 --> 00:30:59,338 CONTRIBUTOR AND TEAMMATE. 701 00:30:59,338 --> 00:31:00,972 IT HAS BEEN A GREAT PLEASURE 702 00:31:00,972 --> 00:31:02,908 WORKING WITH BOTH KEN AND JOHN 703 00:31:02,908 --> 00:31:05,444 OVER SEVERAL DECADES, AND WE ALL 704 00:31:05,444 --> 00:31:06,545 WISH THAT JOHN WERE HERE TO 705 00:31:06,545 --> 00:31:09,715 CELEBRATE WITH US. 706 00:31:09,715 --> 00:31:11,350 I HOPE FOR A LONG, HAPPY AND 707 00:31:11,350 --> 00:31:13,652 RELAXING RETIREMENT FOR KEN, 708 00:31:13,652 --> 00:31:14,453 DORIS AND YOUR FAMILY. 709 00:31:14,453 --> 00:31:14,986 THANK YOU. 710 00:31:14,986 --> 00:31:25,163 [APPLAUSE] 711 00:31:25,163 --> 00:31:28,233 >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MARGA 712 00:31:28,233 --> 00:31:29,401 MARGARET. 713 00:31:29,401 --> 00:31:37,042 SO NEXT, I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE 714 00:31:37,042 --> 00:31:37,709 SIKANDAR AND JEFF. 715 00:31:37,709 --> 00:31:38,910 WHEN KEN ANNOUNCED HE WAS GOING 716 00:31:38,910 --> 00:31:40,545 TO RETIRE, I ASKED HIM, WHAT ARE 717 00:31:40,545 --> 00:31:41,113 YOUR PLANS? 718 00:31:41,113 --> 00:31:42,414 AND HE SAID, I'M GOING TO SPEND 719 00:31:42,414 --> 00:31:45,917 MORE TIME WITH MY FAMILY. 720 00:31:45,917 --> 00:31:47,786 SO HE SHOWED A PICTURE OF THE 721 00:31:47,786 --> 00:31:49,087 FAMILY AND IT WAS FANTASTIC AND 722 00:31:49,087 --> 00:31:50,522 HE WAS SAYING THIS IS GREAT. 723 00:31:50,522 --> 00:31:52,924 THEN I SAW HIM AGAIN A FEW WEEKS 724 00:31:52,924 --> 00:31:54,893 LATER, SAW HIM AGAIN A FEW WEEKS 725 00:31:54,893 --> 00:31:56,294 LATER, AND I WASN'T SURE WHAT'S 726 00:31:56,294 --> 00:31:58,597 GOING ON BECAUSE WAS GOING 727 00:31:58,597 --> 00:31:59,331 ACTUALLY GOING TO SPEND TIME 728 00:31:59,331 --> 00:32:00,799 WITH THE FAMILY OR NOT? 729 00:32:00,799 --> 00:32:02,534 THEN I REALIZED, LCBG IS HIS 730 00:32:02,534 --> 00:32:04,503 FAMILY TOO. 731 00:32:04,503 --> 00:32:07,139 SO WE INVITE THE TWO REMAINING 732 00:32:07,139 --> 00:32:09,541 PEOPLE IN HIS GROUP HERE, 733 00:32:09,541 --> 00:32:11,643 MEMBERS OF KEN KRAEMER'S FAMILY. 734 00:32:11,643 --> 00:32:19,184 [APPLAUSE] 735 00:32:19,184 --> 00:32:20,919 >> HELLO, EVERYONE. 736 00:32:20,919 --> 00:32:24,856 TODAY WE ARE GATHERED HERE TO 737 00:32:24,856 --> 00:32:26,825 CELEBRATE AND HONOR THE 738 00:32:26,825 --> 00:32:29,227 RETIREMENT OF DR. KRAEMER. 739 00:32:29,227 --> 00:32:32,831 AT THIS MOMENT, I FIND MYSELF 740 00:32:32,831 --> 00:32:35,367 REFLECTING ON A JOURNEY THAT 741 00:32:35,367 --> 00:32:37,736 SPANS ALMOST THREE DECADES, A 742 00:32:37,736 --> 00:32:42,574 JOURNEY FILLED WITH LEARNING, 743 00:32:42,574 --> 00:32:44,876 LAUGHING, AND AN EXTRAORDINARY 744 00:32:44,876 --> 00:32:47,279 BOND THAT EXTENDS FAR BEYOND THE 745 00:32:47,279 --> 00:32:49,681 BONDS OF OUR LIVES. 746 00:32:49,681 --> 00:32:53,051 DR. KRAEMER, YOU HAVE BEEN MORE 747 00:32:53,051 --> 00:32:57,556 THAN JUST A BOSS OR A COLLEAGUE. 748 00:32:57,556 --> 00:33:02,027 YOU ARE FAMILY. 749 00:33:02,027 --> 00:33:03,562 WHEN I MOVED FROM OHIO TO 750 00:33:03,562 --> 00:33:06,298 MARYLAND WITH A 3 WEEK OLD BABY, 751 00:33:06,298 --> 00:33:08,900 YOU WERE THERE TO PICK US UP 752 00:33:08,900 --> 00:33:14,739 FROM THE AIRPORT. 753 00:33:14,739 --> 00:33:16,942 THAT GESTURE OF KINDNESS WAS 754 00:33:16,942 --> 00:33:18,643 JUST A GLIMPSE OF TREMENDOUS 755 00:33:18,643 --> 00:33:20,479 SUPPORT YOU HAVE SHOWN TO US 756 00:33:20,479 --> 00:33:23,915 OVER THE YEARS. 757 00:33:23,915 --> 00:33:25,784 YOU HELPED US SETTLE IN USING 758 00:33:25,784 --> 00:33:28,587 OUR TRANSITION INTO A NEW STATE 759 00:33:28,587 --> 00:33:34,626 AND A NEW PHASE OF OUR LIVES. 760 00:33:34,626 --> 00:33:38,597 OUR FAMILY GREW CLOSE, SHARING 761 00:33:38,597 --> 00:33:40,732 COUNTLESS JOYOUS OCCASIONS. 762 00:33:40,732 --> 00:33:45,136 FROM HOUSE PARTIES TO INTERFAITH 763 00:33:45,136 --> 00:33:46,905 EVENTS, EVERY MOMENT SPENT WITH 764 00:33:46,905 --> 00:33:50,375 YOUR FAMILY INCLUDING -- AND 765 00:33:50,375 --> 00:33:56,181 YOUR LOVING CHILDREN WAS A 766 00:33:56,181 --> 00:34:04,723 BLESSING. 767 00:34:04,723 --> 00:34:06,625 THE PARTIES ARE ETCHED IN MY 768 00:34:06,625 --> 00:34:08,093 CHILDREN'S MEMORY. 769 00:34:08,093 --> 00:34:11,162 ESPECIALLY THE MOMENT WHEN 770 00:34:11,162 --> 00:34:15,100 DR. KRAEMER DRESSED AS SANTA 771 00:34:15,100 --> 00:34:19,471 CLAUS, A TRADITION THAT 772 00:34:19,471 --> 00:34:22,541 CONTINUES TO THIS DATE. 773 00:34:22,541 --> 00:34:24,643 DORIS, YOU HAVE BEEN AN INTEGRAL 774 00:34:24,643 --> 00:34:30,081 PART OF OUR EXTENDED LIFE 775 00:34:30,081 --> 00:34:30,515 FAMILY. 776 00:34:30,515 --> 00:34:32,050 YOUR PARTNERSHIP WITH 777 00:34:32,050 --> 00:34:33,018 DR. KRAEMER IS AN INSPIRATION 778 00:34:33,018 --> 00:34:39,724 FOR ALL OF US. 779 00:34:39,724 --> 00:34:42,060 DR. KRAEMER, YOUR MENTORSHIP HAS 780 00:34:42,060 --> 00:34:42,894 BEEN A GUIDING LIGHT IN MY 781 00:34:42,894 --> 00:34:43,228 CAREER. 782 00:34:43,228 --> 00:34:46,831 YOU HAVE TAUGHT ME THE ESSENTIAL 783 00:34:46,831 --> 00:34:47,799 COMPASSIONATE LEADERSHIP AND THE 784 00:34:47,799 --> 00:34:52,504 IMPORTANCE OF NURTURING A TEAM 785 00:34:52,504 --> 00:34:53,705 THAT LOOKS LIKE A FAMILY. 786 00:34:53,705 --> 00:34:57,309 THE MOMENT YOU HAVE CREATED IN 787 00:34:57,309 --> 00:35:02,914 THE LAB ALONGSIDE THE LATE DR 788 00:35:02,914 --> 00:35:05,850 DR. -- ALL PREVIOUS LAB MEMBERS 789 00:35:05,850 --> 00:35:10,655 IS INCREDIBLE. 790 00:35:10,655 --> 00:35:13,525 AT THIS MOMENT, I MISS DR. -- 791 00:35:13,525 --> 00:35:15,160 WHO WAS A COMPASSIONATE 792 00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:19,397 CLINICIAN AND AN AMAZING -- 793 00:35:19,397 --> 00:35:21,399 THERE IS PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP 794 00:35:21,399 --> 00:35:27,405 TO OUR PATIENT IN CLINICAL 795 00:35:27,405 --> 00:35:28,506 DISCOVERIES. 796 00:35:28,506 --> 00:35:32,077 MY CHILDREN HAVE FOND MEMORIES 797 00:35:32,077 --> 00:35:33,945 OF CHRISTMAS PARTIES AND PLAYING 798 00:35:33,945 --> 00:35:40,852 WITH HER LOVING DOG. 799 00:35:40,852 --> 00:35:44,356 DR. KRAEMER, YOUR DEDICATION TO 800 00:35:44,356 --> 00:35:51,029 MENTORING A DIVERSE TEAM -- 801 00:35:51,029 --> 00:35:56,601 SPEAKS VOLUMES ABOUT YOU. 802 00:35:56,601 --> 00:35:59,137 YOUR CONCERN OF OUR WELL-BEING 803 00:35:59,137 --> 00:36:01,740 LIKE WHEN YOU CHECKED IN ON ME 804 00:36:01,740 --> 00:36:04,042 DURING MY HEALTH ISSUES SHOWS 805 00:36:04,042 --> 00:36:08,980 THE DEPTH OF YOUR CARE. 806 00:36:08,980 --> 00:36:13,785 AS WE GATHER TODAY, HERE I AM 807 00:36:13,785 --> 00:36:17,489 OVERWHELMED WITH MIXED EMOTIONS. 808 00:36:17,489 --> 00:36:23,528 IT IS A BITTERSWEET MOMENT, 809 00:36:23,528 --> 00:36:25,130 CHERISHING RELATIONSHIP AND 810 00:36:25,130 --> 00:36:26,464 MEMORIES THAT WILL LAST A 811 00:36:26,464 --> 00:36:29,768 LIFETIME. 812 00:36:29,768 --> 00:36:31,036 DR. KRAEMER, YOU HOLD A SPECIAL 813 00:36:31,036 --> 00:36:33,471 PLACE IN MY HEART. 814 00:36:33,471 --> 00:36:36,508 I LOOK FORWARD TO CONTINUING 815 00:36:36,508 --> 00:36:38,610 THIS RELATIONSHIP. 816 00:36:38,610 --> 00:36:41,880 IN CLOSING, I WANT TO EXPRESS MY 817 00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:45,817 DEEPEST GRATITUDE. 818 00:36:45,817 --> 00:36:48,787 YOUR IMPACT ON MY LIFE BOTH 819 00:36:48,787 --> 00:36:53,158 PROFESSIONALLY AND PERSONALLY. 820 00:36:53,158 --> 00:36:55,226 WE MAY BE CLOSING THIS CHAPTER, 821 00:36:55,226 --> 00:36:57,195 BUT THE LESSON AND MEMORIES YOU 822 00:36:57,195 --> 00:37:00,699 HAVE IMPARTED ON US WILL 823 00:37:00,699 --> 00:37:03,435 CONTINUE TO INSPIRE AND GUIDE US 824 00:37:03,435 --> 00:37:03,601 ALL. 825 00:37:03,601 --> 00:37:09,007 THANK YOU, DR. KRAEMER, FOR 826 00:37:09,007 --> 00:37:09,307 EVERYTHING. 827 00:37:09,307 --> 00:37:16,247 [APPLAUSE] 828 00:37:16,247 --> 00:37:17,415 >> HI, EVERYONE. 829 00:37:17,415 --> 00:37:18,750 MY NAME IS JEFFREY. 830 00:37:18,750 --> 00:37:20,385 I HAVE THE INCREDIBLE HONOR OF 831 00:37:20,385 --> 00:37:23,321 BEING DR. KRAEMER'S LAST NIH 832 00:37:23,321 --> 00:37:25,290 POSTDOC HE FORMALLY TRAINED. 833 00:37:25,290 --> 00:37:27,492 TODAY I WANT TO SHARE A BRIEF 834 00:37:27,492 --> 00:37:29,461 STORY THAT REALLY ENCAPSULATES 835 00:37:29,461 --> 00:37:31,429 THE IMPACT DR. KRAEMER HAD ON 836 00:37:31,429 --> 00:37:31,863 ME. 837 00:37:31,863 --> 00:37:34,599 SO LAST WEEK, I HAD MY FIRST 838 00:37:34,599 --> 00:37:36,801 MEDICAL SCHOOL INTERVIEW, AND I 839 00:37:36,801 --> 00:37:38,770 WAS CONFIDENT, I WAS READY, I 840 00:37:38,770 --> 00:37:40,405 WAS READY FOR ANY QUESTION THEY 841 00:37:40,405 --> 00:37:41,272 COULD THROW AT ME. 842 00:37:41,272 --> 00:37:43,141 BUT THEN CAME THE UNEXPECTED. 843 00:37:43,141 --> 00:37:45,677 WHO IS YOUR BIGGEST ROLE MODEL? 844 00:37:45,677 --> 00:37:48,913 I SAT THERE FOR A FEW SECONDS, 845 00:37:48,913 --> 00:37:49,180 THINKING. 846 00:37:49,180 --> 00:37:50,682 AND THE FIRST PERSON THAT CAME 847 00:37:50,682 --> 00:37:52,884 TO MY MIND WAS DR. KRAEMER. 848 00:37:52,884 --> 00:37:56,254 I SAID, DR. KRAEMER IS A 849 00:37:56,254 --> 00:37:58,323 BRILLIANT RESEARCH PHYSICIAN. 850 00:37:58,323 --> 00:38:00,525 HE'S DEDICATED TO HIS 851 00:38:00,525 --> 00:38:02,160 COLLEAGUES, FAMILY AND PATIENTS, 852 00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:05,230 AND OVERALL, HE'S A SUPER COOL 853 00:38:05,230 --> 00:38:05,997 AND CHILL PERSON. 854 00:38:05,997 --> 00:38:06,998 HE'S THE TYPE OF DOCTOR THAT I 855 00:38:06,998 --> 00:38:08,500 WANT TO BE. 856 00:38:08,500 --> 00:38:10,034 AND AS A MENTOR, HE WENT ABOVE 857 00:38:10,034 --> 00:38:11,803 AND BEYOND. 858 00:38:11,803 --> 00:38:13,671 HE AND DORIS WELCOMED ME INTO 859 00:38:13,671 --> 00:38:16,407 THEIR HOME, INCLUDED ME IN 860 00:38:16,407 --> 00:38:17,709 FAMILY OUTINGS AND MADE MY 861 00:38:17,709 --> 00:38:18,810 TRANSITION TO MARYLAND FEEL LIKE 862 00:38:18,810 --> 00:38:19,577 HOME. 863 00:38:19,577 --> 00:38:21,746 SO DR. KRAEMER, THANK YOU FOR 864 00:38:21,746 --> 00:38:23,381 BEING MORE THAN JUST A MENTOR. 865 00:38:23,381 --> 00:38:24,916 THANK YOU FOR BEING MY ROLE 866 00:38:24,916 --> 00:38:27,752 MODEL, AND MAKING MY NIH 867 00:38:27,752 --> 00:38:28,553 EXPERIENCE UNFORGETTABLE. 868 00:38:28,553 --> 00:38:30,822 AND SO WITH THAT, CHEERS TO YOUR 869 00:38:30,822 --> 00:38:33,124 WELL-DESERVED RETIREMENT, AND 870 00:38:33,124 --> 00:38:35,093 MAY YOU CONTINUE TO INSPIRE MORE 871 00:38:35,093 --> 00:38:35,426 LIKE ME. 872 00:38:35,426 --> 00:38:35,860 THANK YOU. 873 00:38:35,860 --> 00:38:44,002 [APPLAUSE] 874 00:38:44,002 --> 00:38:46,704 >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 875 00:38:46,704 --> 00:38:48,807 NEXT I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE 876 00:38:48,807 --> 00:38:54,279 DEBBY. 877 00:38:54,279 --> 00:38:56,414 CURRENT LAB MEMBERS BE READY 878 00:38:56,414 --> 00:38:59,083 BECAUSE I THINK YOU HAVE A TASK 879 00:38:59,083 --> 00:39:01,920 AFTER DEBBY. 880 00:39:01,920 --> 00:39:06,391 BEFORE YOU START, LET ME GIVE 881 00:39:06,391 --> 00:39:12,564 YOU -- [INAUDIBLE] 882 00:39:12,564 --> 00:39:22,740 [APPLAUSE] 883 00:39:24,642 --> 00:39:25,877 DEBBY IS GOING TO SPEAK FOR 884 00:39:25,877 --> 00:39:27,745 HERSELF BUT SHE IS PRACTICALLY 885 00:39:27,745 --> 00:39:29,147 THE RIGHT HAND FOR KEN IN 886 00:39:29,147 --> 00:39:30,148 ORGANIZING ALL THE COMPLEX 887 00:39:30,148 --> 00:39:31,549 FAMILIES IN THE STUDIES THAT 888 00:39:31,549 --> 00:39:33,351 THEY DO SO THEY MAKE A FANTASTIC 889 00:39:33,351 --> 00:39:40,458 TEAM. 890 00:39:40,458 --> 00:39:42,493 >> OKAY, I'M GOING TO TRY NOT TO 891 00:39:42,493 --> 00:39:48,199 CRY. 892 00:39:48,199 --> 00:39:49,834 SO DR. KRAEMER, I AM SURE THAT 893 00:39:49,834 --> 00:39:52,136 THERE IS NOTHING MORE THAT I CAN 894 00:39:52,136 --> 00:39:54,539 SAY ABOUT YOUR REMARKABLE CAREER 895 00:39:54,539 --> 00:39:56,174 THAT HASN'T ALREADY BEEN SAID OR 896 00:39:56,174 --> 00:39:58,676 WILL BE SAID ABOUT THE NEXT HOUR 897 00:39:58,676 --> 00:39:59,911 OR SO. 898 00:39:59,911 --> 00:40:02,947 YOU ARE A DEDICATED PHYSICIAN, A 899 00:40:02,947 --> 00:40:06,551 BRILLIANT SCIENTIST, AND AN 900 00:40:06,551 --> 00:40:07,552 OUTSTANDING MENTOR. 901 00:40:07,552 --> 00:40:09,287 AND YOU'RE JUST AN ALL AROUND 902 00:40:09,287 --> 00:40:10,288 GOOD GUY. 903 00:40:10,288 --> 00:40:12,323 SO I THOUGHT I'D CATCH YOU UP ON 904 00:40:12,323 --> 00:40:16,961 ONE OF OUR PATIENTS. 905 00:40:16,961 --> 00:40:17,929 YOU'VE KNOWN ABOUT HER FOR A 906 00:40:17,929 --> 00:40:20,465 LONG TIME BUT IT WASN'T UNTIL 907 00:40:20,465 --> 00:40:26,137 ABOUT 19 -- OR I'M SORRY -- 2010 908 00:40:26,137 --> 00:40:27,472 THAT WE WERE FINALLY ABLE TO SEE 909 00:40:27,472 --> 00:40:28,973 HER IN OUR CLINIC. 910 00:40:28,973 --> 00:40:30,942 THE PATIENT HAD BEEN DIAGNOSED 911 00:40:30,942 --> 00:40:32,477 WITH XP WHEN SHE WAS A VERY 912 00:40:32,477 --> 00:40:34,445 YOUNG CHILD, BUT SHE HAD VERY 913 00:40:34,445 --> 00:40:36,214 POOR UV PROTECTION, AND BY THE 914 00:40:36,214 --> 00:40:38,716 TIME SHE WAS 7 YEARS OLD, SHE 915 00:40:38,716 --> 00:40:41,219 HAD SO MANY SKIN CANCERS ON HER 916 00:40:41,219 --> 00:40:42,654 FACE THAT SHE HAD TO HAVE ALL 917 00:40:42,654 --> 00:40:45,189 THE SKIN ON HER FACE REMOVED AND 918 00:40:45,189 --> 00:40:51,996 THEN REPLACED. 919 00:40:51,996 --> 00:40:52,630 UNFORTUNATELY THE PATIENT 920 00:40:52,630 --> 00:40:54,399 CONTINUED TO HAVE POOR UV 921 00:40:54,399 --> 00:40:56,801 PROTECTION, AND BY THE TIME WE 922 00:40:56,801 --> 00:40:59,904 SAW HER, SHE'D HAD OVER A 923 00:40:59,904 --> 00:41:00,738 THOUSAND SKIN CANCERS. 924 00:41:00,738 --> 00:41:02,173 SO THINK ABOUT THAT, A THOUSAND 925 00:41:02,173 --> 00:41:06,411 SKIN CANCERS. 926 00:41:06,411 --> 00:41:08,179 DR. KRAEMER, THE LONG ARM OF 927 00:41:08,179 --> 00:41:10,682 YOUR MENTORSHIP REACHES OUT IN 928 00:41:10,682 --> 00:41:16,721 MIMYSTERIOUS WAYS AND ONE OF OUR 929 00:41:16,721 --> 00:41:17,588 STUDENTS BECAME A DETERMINE TOLL 930 00:41:17,588 --> 00:41:19,691 STUDENT AND THEN STAYED ON AS A 931 00:41:19,691 --> 00:41:20,858 FACULTY MEMBER AT THE MEDICAL 932 00:41:20,858 --> 00:41:21,526 CENTER WHERE THIS PATIENT WAS 933 00:41:21,526 --> 00:41:22,827 GETTING TREATED. 934 00:41:22,827 --> 00:41:24,796 OVER A SERIES OF VISITS WITH 935 00:41:24,796 --> 00:41:25,997 THAT PHYSICIAN AND THEN COMING 936 00:41:25,997 --> 00:41:31,936 HERE TO THE NIH, FINALLY, YOU 937 00:41:31,936 --> 00:41:35,540 AND DR. GIOVANNA PUSHED THE 938 00:41:35,540 --> 00:41:37,308 PATIENT TO USE BETTER UV 939 00:41:37,308 --> 00:41:37,742 PROTECTION. 940 00:41:37,742 --> 00:41:43,081 AND ME AS NOT AS GENTLE ABOUT IT 941 00:41:43,081 --> 00:41:44,749 AND I PUSHED A LOT HARDER. 942 00:41:44,749 --> 00:41:46,384 IN COLLABORATION WITH HER 943 00:41:46,384 --> 00:41:48,119 WONDERFUL LOCAL PHYSICIAN, YOU 944 00:41:48,119 --> 00:41:49,554 AND DR. D ENCOURAGED THE PATIENT 945 00:41:49,554 --> 00:41:53,257 TO TAKE BETTER CARE OF HERSELF. 946 00:41:53,257 --> 00:41:54,492 OVER THE COURSE OF SEVERAL 947 00:41:54,492 --> 00:41:56,561 VISITS WITH US AT THE NIH, WE 948 00:41:56,561 --> 00:41:59,397 NOTICED A GRADUAL CHANGE IN THE 949 00:41:59,397 --> 00:42:00,798 PATIENT'S UV PROTECTION 950 00:42:00,798 --> 00:42:01,466 BEHAVIOR. 951 00:42:01,466 --> 00:42:03,668 AT THE END OF HER LAST VISIT 952 00:42:03,668 --> 00:42:08,940 WITH US, THE PARITY WAS GETTING- 953 00:42:08,940 --> 00:42:11,642 THE PATIENT WAS GETTING 954 00:42:11,642 --> 00:42:14,712 NOTICEABLY FEWER SQUAMOUS CELL 955 00:42:14,712 --> 00:42:15,146 CARCINOMAS. 956 00:42:15,146 --> 00:42:16,681 THE BEST WAY TO KEEP IN TOUCH 957 00:42:16,681 --> 00:42:19,584 WITH ALL OF THE PATIENTS, AND 958 00:42:19,584 --> 00:42:22,920 THREE WEEKS AGO, SHE POSTED -- 959 00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:24,322 JUST HAD A DERMATOLOGIST 960 00:42:24,322 --> 00:42:24,789 APPOINTMENT. 961 00:42:24,789 --> 00:42:26,958 NO SKIN CANCERS. 962 00:42:26,958 --> 00:42:28,593 DR. KRAEMER, THIS IS THE FIRST 963 00:42:28,593 --> 00:42:30,795 TIME IN OVER 30 YEARS THE 964 00:42:30,795 --> 00:42:32,430 PATIENT HAD NOT HAD A SKIN 965 00:42:32,430 --> 00:42:34,732 CANCER DIAGNOSED AT A 966 00:42:34,732 --> 00:42:36,567 DERMATOLOGY VISIT. 967 00:42:36,567 --> 00:42:38,903 ABOVE EVERYTHING ELSE THAT 968 00:42:38,903 --> 00:42:40,071 DR. KRAEMER HAS EVER DONE, 969 00:42:40,071 --> 00:42:41,939 MAKING SURE THAT OUR PATIENTS 970 00:42:41,939 --> 00:42:44,909 GET REALLY GOOD CARE, THAT'S THE 971 00:42:44,909 --> 00:42:46,644 LEGACY THAT I HOPE YOU ALL 972 00:42:46,644 --> 00:42:49,414 REMEMBER. 973 00:42:49,414 --> 00:42:50,148 DR. KRAEMER, THANK YOU SO MUCH 974 00:42:50,148 --> 00:42:53,317 FOR RECRUITING ME FROM HAWAII. 975 00:42:53,317 --> 00:42:55,086 I'VE JUST ENJOYED THE LAST 20 976 00:42:55,086 --> 00:42:58,022 YEARS WORKING WITH YOU. 977 00:42:58,022 --> 00:42:59,290 YOU JUST TAUGHT ME SO MUCH, AND 978 00:42:59,290 --> 00:43:00,892 THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU. 979 00:43:00,892 --> 00:43:11,069 [APPLAUSE] 980 00:43:15,706 --> 00:43:17,608 >> CAN I INVITE ALL THE CURRENT 981 00:43:17,608 --> 00:43:20,244 MEMBERS OF DR. KRAEMER'S LAB TO 982 00:43:20,244 --> 00:43:30,555 THE FRONT, PLEASE? 983 00:44:08,359 --> 00:44:15,700 [APPLAUSE] 984 00:44:15,700 --> 00:44:18,636 >> SO WHAT THEY PRESENTED IS A 985 00:44:18,636 --> 00:44:20,938 PHOTO ALBUM OF A COLLECTION OF 986 00:44:20,938 --> 00:44:21,939 PHOTOGRAPHS FROM HIS EARLY DAYS 987 00:44:21,939 --> 00:44:25,109 AT NIH ALL THE WAY TO NOW. 988 00:44:25,109 --> 00:44:26,310 IT'S VERY BEAUTIFUL WORK. 989 00:44:26,310 --> 00:44:29,680 GOOD JOB. 990 00:44:29,680 --> 00:44:32,984 NEXT I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE MARK 991 00:44:32,984 --> 00:44:42,059 UDEY TO SAY A FEW WORDS. 992 00:44:42,059 --> 00:44:43,127 >> WELL, I'M A LITTLE BIT 993 00:44:43,127 --> 00:44:44,562 SURPRISED TO BE HERE TODAY. 994 00:44:44,562 --> 00:44:45,763 IN LARGE PART BECAUSE A NUMBER 995 00:44:45,763 --> 00:44:49,267 OF YEARS AGO, I'M QUITE CERTAIN 996 00:44:49,267 --> 00:44:51,569 THAT KEN'S WIFE DORIS TOLD MY 997 00:44:51,569 --> 00:44:54,205 WIFE DEBORAH THAT KEN WOULD 998 00:44:54,205 --> 00:45:00,211 NEVER RETIRE. 999 00:45:00,211 --> 00:45:03,814 I'M GLAD TO SEE THAT SOME SANITY 1000 00:45:03,814 --> 00:45:07,952 HAS PREVAILED. 1001 00:45:07,952 --> 00:45:09,187 I FIRST MET KEN IN THE EARLY 1002 00:45:09,187 --> 00:45:11,289 80s WHEN I WAS A DERMATOLOGY 1003 00:45:11,289 --> 00:45:12,490 RESIDENT AT WASHINGTON 1004 00:45:12,490 --> 00:45:13,090 UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE. 1005 00:45:13,090 --> 00:45:14,325 I DIDN'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT KEN 1006 00:45:14,325 --> 00:45:15,660 PRIOR TO THAT TIME AND DIDN'T 1007 00:45:15,660 --> 00:45:17,395 KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE NIH 1008 00:45:17,395 --> 00:45:18,829 INTRAMURAL PROGRAM, KNEW VERY 1009 00:45:18,829 --> 00:45:23,868 LITTLE ABOUT XP BUT I DID 1010 00:45:23,868 --> 00:45:26,504 KNOW -- HE HAD ONLY RESPECT FOR 1011 00:45:26,504 --> 00:45:30,341 SERIOUS PEOPLE BECAUSE HE 1012 00:45:30,341 --> 00:45:31,576 INVITED KEN TO BE A VISITING 1013 00:45:31,576 --> 00:45:31,842 PROFESSOR. 1014 00:45:31,842 --> 00:45:37,348 I GOT TO KNOW KENMORE OVER MY 1015 00:45:37,348 --> 00:45:40,418 TENURE, 2009 TO 2017, AND WORKED 1016 00:45:40,418 --> 00:45:43,054 WITH KEN IN A NUMBER OF WAYS 1017 00:45:43,054 --> 00:45:43,554 FREQUENTLY. 1018 00:45:43,554 --> 00:45:45,990 KEN WAS ALWAYS AT AN 1019 00:45:45,990 --> 00:45:49,060 ADMINISTRATIVE DISTANCE FROM THE 1020 00:45:49,060 --> 00:45:49,927 BRANCH, BUT HE ALWAYS MADE 1021 00:45:49,927 --> 00:45:51,229 CERTAIN THAT HE AND HIS 1022 00:45:51,229 --> 00:45:52,296 COLLEAGUES AND HIS CO-WORKERS 1023 00:45:52,296 --> 00:45:55,166 AND TRAINEES WERE AN INTEGRAL 1024 00:45:55,166 --> 00:45:57,802 PART OF THE DERMATOLOGY BRANCH 1025 00:45:57,802 --> 00:45:59,136 ACTIVITIES AND AN ACTIVE 1026 00:45:59,136 --> 00:46:00,238 PARTICIPANT AND I REALLY, REALLY 1027 00:46:00,238 --> 00:46:01,772 APPRECIATE THAT, KEN. 1028 00:46:01,772 --> 00:46:03,207 A WORD I WOULD USE TO DESCRIBE 1029 00:46:03,207 --> 00:46:04,275 KEN IS COMMITMENT. 1030 00:46:04,275 --> 00:46:05,610 KEN IS ONE OF THE MOST COMMITTED 1031 00:46:05,610 --> 00:46:06,611 PEOPLE I'VE EVER MET. 1032 00:46:06,611 --> 00:46:09,347 HE'S COMMITTED TO HIS PATIENTS, 1033 00:46:09,347 --> 00:46:10,648 COMMITTED TO HIS WORK, COMMITTED 1034 00:46:10,648 --> 00:46:12,183 TO HIS FAMILIMENT HE'S ONLY BEEN 1035 00:46:12,183 --> 00:46:15,152 ABLE TO ACCOMPLISH WHAT HE'S 1036 00:46:15,152 --> 00:46:15,920 ACCOMPLISHED -- AND I THINK 1037 00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:19,190 THAT'S AN ADMIRABLE 1038 00:46:19,190 --> 00:46:20,725 CHARACTERISTIC AND HOPE TO 1039 00:46:20,725 --> 00:46:22,260 EMULATE IT GOING FORWARD. 1040 00:46:22,260 --> 00:46:25,630 I ALSO WANT TO THANK YOU FOR ALL 1041 00:46:25,630 --> 00:46:27,632 THAT YOU'VE DONE TO SUPPORT ME 1042 00:46:27,632 --> 00:46:30,368 OVER THE YEARS SMS. 1043 00:46:30,368 --> 00:46:33,237 I WISH YOU A LONG LIFE, GOOD 1044 00:46:33,237 --> 00:46:34,772 HEALTH AND MUCH HAPPINESS. 1045 00:46:34,772 --> 00:46:37,842 YON GRCONGRATULATIONS, KEN. 1046 00:46:37,842 --> 00:46:43,648 [APPLAUSE] 1047 00:46:43,648 --> 00:46:44,949 >> THANK YOU, MARK. 1048 00:46:44,949 --> 00:46:49,120 I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE MICHELE 1049 00:46:49,120 --> 00:46:57,995 EVANS. 1050 00:46:57,995 --> 00:46:59,196 >> THANK YOU, KEN. 1051 00:46:59,196 --> 00:47:00,831 THANK YOU FOR MY CAREER HERE AT 1052 00:47:00,831 --> 00:47:02,099 NIH. 1053 00:47:02,099 --> 00:47:11,342 I MET KEN WHEN I JOINED VIL 1054 00:47:11,342 --> 00:47:14,979 BOHR'S LAB, AND AS YOU WILL 1055 00:47:14,979 --> 00:47:17,415 HEARD VIL AND KEN WERE CONNECTED 1056 00:47:17,415 --> 00:47:19,116 AT THE HIP. 1057 00:47:19,116 --> 00:47:20,451 HE MENTORED ME AS WELL, HELPING 1058 00:47:20,451 --> 00:47:22,953 ME THROUGH MY FIRST BSC, BY THAT 1059 00:47:22,953 --> 00:47:24,155 TIME WE HAD MOVED UP TO 1060 00:47:24,155 --> 00:47:24,522 BALTIMORE. 1061 00:47:24,522 --> 00:47:25,790 HE CAME UP TO BALTIMORE. 1062 00:47:25,790 --> 00:47:27,358 HE WENT THROUGH MY SLIDES WITH 1063 00:47:27,358 --> 00:47:27,758 ME. 1064 00:47:27,758 --> 00:47:30,328 HE REALLY SHOWED ME WHAT WAS A 1065 00:47:30,328 --> 00:47:31,962 GOOD POWERPOINT SLIDE AND WHAT 1066 00:47:31,962 --> 00:47:33,397 WASN'T A GOOD POWERPOINT SLIDE, 1067 00:47:33,397 --> 00:47:35,166 AND AT THAT TIME, GETTING ON THE 1068 00:47:35,166 --> 00:47:38,002 TENURE TRACK, YOU HAD TO HAVE A 1069 00:47:38,002 --> 00:47:39,103 SUCCESSFUL BMC. 1070 00:47:39,103 --> 00:47:40,304 THERE WASN'T THIS ADVERTISEMENT 1071 00:47:40,304 --> 00:47:41,739 BECAUSE THERE REALLY WAS NOT A 1072 00:47:41,739 --> 00:47:43,708 TRUE TENURE TRACK YET. 1073 00:47:43,708 --> 00:47:47,445 AND SO JUST MAKING THAT JUMP, 1074 00:47:47,445 --> 00:47:49,980 KEN WAS THERE WORKING WITH VIL 1075 00:47:49,980 --> 00:47:54,085 TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN. 1076 00:47:54,085 --> 00:47:55,653 BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, I THINK 1077 00:47:55,653 --> 00:47:58,823 KEN INVESTED IN ME BECAUSE OF 1078 00:47:58,823 --> 00:48:00,691 HIS DEEP COMMITMENT TO EQUITY 1079 00:48:00,691 --> 00:48:03,094 AND DIVERSITY AND RECOGNIZING 1080 00:48:03,094 --> 00:48:04,295 THAT EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE AN 1081 00:48:04,295 --> 00:48:05,963 OPPORTUNITY TO PURSUE A CAREER 1082 00:48:05,963 --> 00:48:08,265 HERE AT NIH. 1083 00:48:08,265 --> 00:48:11,736 HE SUPPORTED ME IN EVERYTHING 1084 00:48:11,736 --> 00:48:13,938 THAT I HAVE EVER DONE HERE AT 1085 00:48:13,938 --> 00:48:17,942 NIH, PROVIDING A RECOMMENDATION 1086 00:48:17,942 --> 00:48:19,443 OR JUST CHECK IN TO SEE HOW 1087 00:48:19,443 --> 00:48:20,978 THINGS WERE GOING. 1088 00:48:20,978 --> 00:48:22,913 GOING TO INTERNATIONAL 1089 00:48:22,913 --> 00:48:25,683 SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS IS NOT EASY, 1090 00:48:25,683 --> 00:48:30,921 WAS NOT EASY AS MAYBE THE ONLY 1091 00:48:30,921 --> 00:48:33,023 BLACK PERSON, MAYBE THE ONLY 1092 00:48:33,023 --> 00:48:33,791 BLACK WOMAN THERE AT THE 1093 00:48:33,791 --> 00:48:34,258 CONFERENCE. 1094 00:48:34,258 --> 00:48:39,463 BUT KEN AND DORIS, DORIS WOULD 1095 00:48:39,463 --> 00:48:40,498 SAY, NOBODY'S TALKING TO 1096 00:48:40,498 --> 00:48:40,765 MICHELLE. 1097 00:48:40,765 --> 00:48:42,333 LET ME GO OVER THERE AND TALK TO 1098 00:48:42,333 --> 00:48:42,900 MICHELLE. 1099 00:48:42,900 --> 00:48:48,339 LET ME GO SEE MICHELE AT HER 1100 00:48:48,339 --> 00:48:48,906 POSTER. 1101 00:48:48,906 --> 00:48:50,107 THEY MADE SURE THAT I FELT 1102 00:48:50,107 --> 00:48:52,176 COMFORTABLE, THAT I FELT 1103 00:48:52,176 --> 00:48:52,943 INCLUDED. 1104 00:48:52,943 --> 00:48:54,478 THIS IS BACK IN THE 1990s. 1105 00:48:54,478 --> 00:48:58,115 NO ONE WAS TALKING ABOUT 1106 00:48:58,115 --> 00:48:59,083 DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION 1107 00:48:59,083 --> 00:48:59,750 AT THAT TIME. 1108 00:48:59,750 --> 00:49:02,720 THEY DIDN'T NEED TO TRAIN KEN OR 1109 00:49:02,720 --> 00:49:06,557 DORIS ON THIS BECAUSE THIS IS 1110 00:49:06,557 --> 00:49:07,658 JUST WHO THEY WERE AS PEOPLE. 1111 00:49:07,658 --> 00:49:09,827 AS ETHICAL, MORAL PEOPLE WHO 1112 00:49:09,827 --> 00:49:14,031 WERE COMMITTED TO WELCOMING 1113 00:49:14,031 --> 00:49:15,566 EVERYONE AND TREATING THEM 1114 00:49:15,566 --> 00:49:17,868 EQUALLY, AND MAKING SURE THAT 1115 00:49:17,868 --> 00:49:19,403 THEIR OPPORTUNITIES AND DREAMS 1116 00:49:19,403 --> 00:49:22,139 WERE ABLE TO BE FULFILLED. 1117 00:49:22,139 --> 00:49:25,643 AND THAT'S WHY I'M HERE TODAY, 1118 00:49:25,643 --> 00:49:27,845 AS A TENURED INVESTIGATOR AT 1119 00:49:27,845 --> 00:49:31,348 NIH, ONE OF THE FEW AFRICAN 1120 00:49:31,348 --> 00:49:33,818 AMERICAN WOMEN TENURED AT NIH, 1121 00:49:33,818 --> 00:49:35,519 AND THAT'S BECAUSE OF THE 1122 00:49:35,519 --> 00:49:37,488 INVESTMENT OF VIL BOHR BUT ALSO 1123 00:49:37,488 --> 00:49:38,923 KEN KRAEMER, AND I WASN'T EVEN 1124 00:49:38,923 --> 00:49:41,659 IN HIS LAB, I WASN'T EVEN IN HIS 1125 00:49:41,659 --> 00:49:43,327 INSTITUTE, AS HE REACHED ACROSS 1126 00:49:43,327 --> 00:49:45,729 TO JUST MAKE SURE THAT I HAD THE 1127 00:49:45,729 --> 00:49:47,498 SUPPORT AND GUIDANCE THAT HE 1128 00:49:47,498 --> 00:49:49,900 FELT THAT I NEEDED. 1129 00:49:49,900 --> 00:49:52,536 BECAUSE HE SAW POTENTIAL, AND HE 1130 00:49:52,536 --> 00:49:55,806 DIDN'T CARE WHAT PACKAGE THE 1131 00:49:55,806 --> 00:49:57,141 POTENTIAL CAME IN, HE INVESTED 1132 00:49:57,141 --> 00:49:57,708 IN. 1133 00:49:57,708 --> 00:49:59,543 AND FOR THAT, I AM ETERNALLY 1134 00:49:59,543 --> 00:50:00,110 GRATEFUL. 1135 00:50:00,110 --> 00:50:03,380 THANK YOU, KEN, AND THANK YOU, 1136 00:50:03,380 --> 00:50:05,950 DORIS, NOT ONLY FOR REACHING OUT 1137 00:50:05,950 --> 00:50:07,485 TO ME AT SOME OF THOSE MEETINGS 1138 00:50:07,485 --> 00:50:08,886 WHERE I REALLY DIDN'T HAVE 1139 00:50:08,886 --> 00:50:11,188 ANYBODY THAT I COULD KIND OF 1140 00:50:11,188 --> 00:50:15,025 TALK TO, AND YOU RECOGNIZING 1141 00:50:15,025 --> 00:50:16,894 THAT AWKWARDNESS AND DISCOMFORT 1142 00:50:16,894 --> 00:50:18,429 AND COMING TO MY RESCUE SO MANY 1143 00:50:18,429 --> 00:50:20,531 TIMES. 1144 00:50:20,531 --> 00:50:23,901 BUT ALSO SHOWING ME HOW TO BE A 1145 00:50:23,901 --> 00:50:26,203 PARTNER AND A SPOUSE TO A 1146 00:50:26,203 --> 00:50:27,638 SCIENTIST, BECAUSE I MARRIED 1147 00:50:27,638 --> 00:50:30,140 SOMEBODY HERE AT NIH, AND I 1148 00:50:30,140 --> 00:50:32,343 MODELED THE WAY I MANAGED MY 1149 00:50:32,343 --> 00:50:33,444 RELATIONSHIP WITH MY HUSBAND THE 1150 00:50:33,444 --> 00:50:34,879 WAY YOU MANAGE YOUR RELATIONSHIP 1151 00:50:34,879 --> 00:50:38,482 WITH KEN BECAUSE I SAW WHAT WAS 1152 00:50:38,482 --> 00:50:40,784 NECESSARY TO PROMOTE HIS SUCCESS 1153 00:50:40,784 --> 00:50:42,219 WHILE I WAS WORKING ON 1154 00:50:42,219 --> 00:50:44,188 DEVELOPING MY OWN CAREER AND 1155 00:50:44,188 --> 00:50:46,156 RAISING MY OWN FAMILY. 1156 00:50:46,156 --> 00:50:48,058 SO THANK YOU, DORIS, FOR 1157 00:50:48,058 --> 00:50:50,427 REACHING OUT IN YOUR SPECIAL WAY 1158 00:50:50,427 --> 00:50:52,730 TO REALLY MAKE MY LIFE EASIER BY 1159 00:50:52,730 --> 00:50:54,798 GIVING ME A PATTERN TO FOLLOW. 1160 00:50:54,798 --> 00:50:56,000 SO THANK YOU BOTH, AND I WISH 1161 00:50:56,000 --> 00:50:57,835 YOU ALL THE BEST IN YOUR 1162 00:50:57,835 --> 00:50:58,435 RETIREMENT. 1163 00:50:58,435 --> 00:51:08,612 [APPLAUSE] 1164 00:51:17,821 --> 00:51:21,091 >> THANK YOU, MICHELE. 1165 00:51:21,091 --> 00:51:22,293 WE'RE HEARING AGAIN ABOUT HOW 1166 00:51:22,293 --> 00:51:27,331 CARING AND HOW GENUINE KEN IS. 1167 00:51:27,331 --> 00:51:29,500 WHEN I STARTED HERE THE FIRST 1168 00:51:29,500 --> 00:51:31,835 FEW WEEKS, I WAS WALKING FROM 1169 00:51:31,835 --> 00:51:34,438 THE PARKING LOT TO THE BUILDING 1170 00:51:34,438 --> 00:51:35,873 AND KEN WAS THERE WITH A BAG IN 1171 00:51:35,873 --> 00:51:36,340 HIS HAND. 1172 00:51:36,340 --> 00:51:42,346 SO I SAID KEN, HO ARE YOU, YES,T 1173 00:51:42,346 --> 00:51:43,480 QUESTION HE ASKED WAS, DO YOU 1174 00:51:43,480 --> 00:51:44,348 LIKE FISH? 1175 00:51:44,348 --> 00:51:45,115 AND I SAID YEAH. 1176 00:51:45,115 --> 00:51:46,650 AND HE GOES, WELL, YOU SHOULD 1177 00:51:46,650 --> 00:51:49,920 NOT BUY FISH FROM SUPERMARKETS. 1178 00:51:49,920 --> 00:51:51,689 THERE IS A FISHERMAN WHO COMES 1179 00:51:51,689 --> 00:51:54,858 ONCE IN A WHILE TO THE PARKING 1180 00:51:54,858 --> 00:51:59,697 LOT ACROSS OUR BUILDING, THAT'S 1181 00:51:59,697 --> 00:52:01,665 WHERE YOU SHOULD BUY IT FROM, 1182 00:52:01,665 --> 00:52:02,766 AND I'LL TELL YOU HOW TO DO 1183 00:52:02,766 --> 00:52:03,400 THAT. 1184 00:52:03,400 --> 00:52:04,969 AND I JUST LISTENED TO HIM AND 1185 00:52:04,969 --> 00:52:07,271 SAID THIS IS A GENUINE GUY WHO 1186 00:52:07,271 --> 00:52:08,472 REALLY CARES FOR YOU. 1187 00:52:08,472 --> 00:52:11,542 HE NOT ONLY SHARED -- YOU CAN 1188 00:52:11,542 --> 00:52:12,643 HEAR FROM EVERYBODY WHO IS HERE, 1189 00:52:12,643 --> 00:52:15,379 I THINK HE REALLY TAKES YOU 1190 00:52:15,379 --> 00:52:16,814 SERIOUSLY, SO GREAT JOB. 1191 00:52:16,814 --> 00:52:17,247 OKAY. 1192 00:52:17,247 --> 00:52:19,984 NOW WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A SERIES 1193 00:52:19,984 --> 00:52:22,853 OF WEBEX PRESENTATIONS. 1194 00:52:22,853 --> 00:52:25,923 THE FIRST ONE IS FROM YVES 1195 00:52:25,923 --> 00:52:26,156 POMMIER. 1196 00:52:26,156 --> 00:52:26,690 >> YES, HI. 1197 00:52:26,690 --> 00:52:33,030 CAN YOU HEAR ME? 1198 00:52:33,030 --> 00:52:34,198 CAN YOU HEAR ME? 1199 00:52:34,198 --> 00:52:34,765 >> YES. 1200 00:52:34,765 --> 00:52:36,634 >> HELLO. 1201 00:52:36,634 --> 00:52:38,202 KEN, I APOLOGIZE FOR NOT BEING 1202 00:52:38,202 --> 00:52:41,472 WITH YOU BECAUSE I CANNOT NOW, 1203 00:52:41,472 --> 00:52:43,674 BUT I'M REALLY WITH YOU. 1204 00:52:43,674 --> 00:52:46,310 KEN HAS BEEN A BIG PART FOR ME, 1205 00:52:46,310 --> 00:52:49,713 YOU KNOW, I CAME TO THE NIH AS A 1206 00:52:49,713 --> 00:52:52,349 POSTDOC, AND I WAS WITH AN 1207 00:52:52,349 --> 00:52:56,520 OUTSTANDING MENTOR, DR. CURT 1208 00:52:56,520 --> 00:53:00,691 COHEN, WHO HAD ACTUALLY HIRED 1209 00:53:00,691 --> 00:53:01,458 VIL BOHR AS WELL. 1210 00:53:01,458 --> 00:53:04,862 WE WERE WORKING ON DNA DAMAGE, 1211 00:53:04,862 --> 00:53:06,930 I'LL GIVE YOU THREE LITTLE 1212 00:53:06,930 --> 00:53:08,799 TIDBITS THAT CHANGED MY LIFE. 1213 00:53:08,799 --> 00:53:11,902 WORKING ON DNA DAMAGE, AND KEN 1214 00:53:11,902 --> 00:53:13,871 WAS REALLY INTERESTED IN BLOOM 1215 00:53:13,871 --> 00:53:15,372 SYNDROME, THAT WAS IN 1990. 1216 00:53:15,372 --> 00:53:17,808 IN 1990, WE DIDN'T KNOW VERY 1217 00:53:17,808 --> 00:53:20,110 MUCH ABOUT THE CAUSE OF BLUE 1218 00:53:20,110 --> 00:53:24,381 SYNDROME, AND THERE WAS A 1219 00:53:24,381 --> 00:53:25,716 SUSPICION TOPO ISOMERS WERE 1220 00:53:25,716 --> 00:53:25,983 INVOLVED. 1221 00:53:25,983 --> 00:53:29,586 KEN WAS ASKING ME TO MEASURE THE 1222 00:53:29,586 --> 00:53:32,956 DNA DAMAGE WITH THE -- 1223 00:53:32,956 --> 00:53:38,028 ENRICHMENT FACTOR AND WE 1224 00:53:38,028 --> 00:53:38,829 HYPOTHESIZED IT WAS -- 2. 1225 00:53:38,829 --> 00:53:40,431 I DID ALL THE EXPERIMENTS, I WAS 1226 00:53:40,431 --> 00:53:42,599 GOING BACK AND FORTH AND 1227 00:53:42,599 --> 00:53:46,770 EVERYTHING ACTUALLY WAS 1228 00:53:46,770 --> 00:53:47,137 AGAINST -- 2. 1229 00:53:47,137 --> 00:53:49,873 WE ENDED UP PUBLISHING THIS WORK 1230 00:53:49,873 --> 00:53:53,277 ARGUING THAT IT WAS NOT 1231 00:53:53,277 --> 00:53:55,979 ASSOCIATED WITH BLUE CENTRAL, 1232 00:53:55,979 --> 00:53:58,449 AND THAT FOR ME WAS AN 1233 00:53:58,449 --> 00:54:00,084 ENLIGHTENING EXPERIENCE BECAUSE 1234 00:54:00,084 --> 00:54:01,185 YOU CAN'T FORCE SCIENCE, YOU 1235 00:54:01,185 --> 00:54:04,121 HAVE TO FOLLOW WHAT THE DATA ARE 1236 00:54:04,121 --> 00:54:06,090 SHOWING YOU, AND AS WE STARTED 1237 00:54:06,090 --> 00:54:07,958 WRITING THAT PAPER, I ALSO 1238 00:54:07,958 --> 00:54:11,929 REALIZED HOW CAREFUL KEN WAS IN 1239 00:54:11,929 --> 00:54:13,197 EVERY WORD THAT HE WOULD PUT IN 1240 00:54:13,197 --> 00:54:13,697 THE PAPER. 1241 00:54:13,697 --> 00:54:15,432 YOU KNOW, YOU COULD HEAR IT. 1242 00:54:15,432 --> 00:54:19,636 I'M NOT A ENGLISH-SPEAKING-BORN 1243 00:54:19,636 --> 00:54:21,705 PERSON, BUT KEN WAS WONDERFUL, 1244 00:54:21,705 --> 00:54:23,340 YOU KNOW. 1245 00:54:23,340 --> 00:54:24,475 THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN 1246 00:54:24,475 --> 00:54:27,077 DEMONSTRATES, INDICATES, SHOWS, 1247 00:54:27,077 --> 00:54:28,946 WAS VERY CLEAR AT THAT TIME, AND 1248 00:54:28,946 --> 00:54:30,748 KEN PUT HIS FINGER RIGHT ON 1249 00:54:30,748 --> 00:54:32,483 EVERYTHING, EVERY SLIDE, EVERY 1250 00:54:32,483 --> 00:54:34,017 FIGURE, EVERYTHING WONDERFUL. 1251 00:54:34,017 --> 00:54:35,753 CURT WAS THE SAME BUT KEN WAS 1252 00:54:35,753 --> 00:54:37,521 REALLY OUTSTANDING. 1253 00:54:37,521 --> 00:54:40,824 THE SECOND STEP ON MY -- I KEPT 1254 00:54:40,824 --> 00:54:43,327 SEEING KEN ALL THE TIME, I LOVED 1255 00:54:43,327 --> 00:54:45,562 GOING TO HIS OFFICE. 1256 00:54:45,562 --> 00:54:47,865 THE FIRST TIME I CAME TO KEN'S 1257 00:54:47,865 --> 00:54:52,236 OFFICE, IT WAS LIKE WONDERFUL I 1258 00:54:52,236 --> 00:54:54,104 ENTER, I SEE THIS PERSON SITTING 1259 00:54:54,104 --> 00:54:56,540 ON A CHAIR IN THE MIDDLE OF PILE 1260 00:54:56,540 --> 00:54:59,810 OF PAPERS, HUGE PILES, BOOKS, 1261 00:54:59,810 --> 00:55:01,245 PAPERS, AND THEN I ASK A 1262 00:55:01,245 --> 00:55:03,046 QUESTION TO KEN, I SAY, OH, WAIT 1263 00:55:03,046 --> 00:55:04,782 A MINUTE, AND HE WOULD GO UNDER 1264 00:55:04,782 --> 00:55:06,650 THE PILE, PULL OUT IN A LITTLE 1265 00:55:06,650 --> 00:55:08,619 CORNER A PIECE OF PAPER AND HE'D 1266 00:55:08,619 --> 00:55:11,121 SHOW ME A GRAPH. 1267 00:55:11,121 --> 00:55:12,489 HE WAS SO SMART, I THOUGHT THAT 1268 00:55:12,489 --> 00:55:14,892 HE COULD PUT HIS DESK IN ORDER 1269 00:55:14,892 --> 00:55:15,893 BECAUSE HE KNEW WHERE EVERYTHING 1270 00:55:15,893 --> 00:55:16,260 WAS. 1271 00:55:16,260 --> 00:55:20,030 I COULD NEVER DO THIS. 1272 00:55:20,030 --> 00:55:24,768 SO THE SECOND TIME THAT I GOT TO 1273 00:55:24,768 --> 00:55:26,069 AN EXPERIENCE WITH KEN WAS FOR 1274 00:55:26,069 --> 00:55:28,038 ANOTHER STUDY WHERE WE WERE 1275 00:55:28,038 --> 00:55:30,908 STUDYING DNA DAMAGE -- WHICH IS 1276 00:55:30,908 --> 00:55:38,482 NOT APPROVED IN THE CLINIC, 743, 1277 00:55:38,482 --> 00:55:39,483 TRABECTADINE. 1278 00:55:39,483 --> 00:55:41,785 WHAT WE HAD IDENTIFIED WAS 1279 00:55:41,785 --> 00:55:43,120 THE -- WE DIDN'T KNOW THE TARGET 1280 00:55:43,120 --> 00:55:44,721 AND IDENTIFYING RESISTANT CELL 1281 00:55:44,721 --> 00:55:46,857 LINE THAT INACTIVATION OF XP 1282 00:55:46,857 --> 00:55:50,894 GWAS MAKING THE CELLS RESISTANT. 1283 00:55:50,894 --> 00:55:52,896 AND I WENT TO KEN AND I SAID, 1284 00:55:52,896 --> 00:55:55,732 KEN, I NEED AN ISOGENIC CELL 1285 00:55:55,732 --> 00:55:55,933 LINE. 1286 00:55:55,933 --> 00:55:57,835 KEN HAD THIS WONDERFUL 1287 00:55:57,835 --> 00:56:00,237 COLLECTION OF ISOGENIC CELL 1288 00:56:00,237 --> 00:56:02,105 LINES, WE DID ALL THE CONTROLS 1289 00:56:02,105 --> 00:56:06,143 LIKE KEN VERY THRUR THOROUGHLY , 1290 00:56:06,143 --> 00:56:10,347 AND WE ENDED UP DISCOVERING 1291 00:56:10,347 --> 00:56:11,882 THAT -- THE DRUG IS 1292 00:56:11,882 --> 00:56:14,051 FDA-APPROVED, IT'S USED IN 1293 00:56:14,051 --> 00:56:15,953 CANCER, AND THIS DISCOVERY WAS 1294 00:56:15,953 --> 00:56:17,487 VERY IMPORTANT FOR THAT. 1295 00:56:17,487 --> 00:56:19,656 BUT IT WAS ALSO EXTREMELY 1296 00:56:19,656 --> 00:56:20,757 IMPORTANT BECAUSE THERE WAS THE 1297 00:56:20,757 --> 00:56:26,797 TIME WHERE I WAS BECOMING -- I 1298 00:56:26,797 --> 00:56:28,999 WAS POSTULATING TO BECOME A 1299 00:56:28,999 --> 00:56:31,835 P.I., AND THANKS TO KEN, I THINK 1300 00:56:31,835 --> 00:56:34,605 KEN THIS PAPER WE PUBLISHED IN 1301 00:56:34,605 --> 00:56:38,108 NATURE MEDICINE PROBABLY WAS A 1302 00:56:38,108 --> 00:56:40,410 KEY -- IT WEIGHED A LOT WHEN I 1303 00:56:40,410 --> 00:56:43,380 WENT THROUGH THE REVIEW AND I 1304 00:56:43,380 --> 00:56:45,249 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR EVERYTHING 1305 00:56:45,249 --> 00:56:47,117 YOU DID AND ALL YOUR CAREFUL 1306 00:56:47,117 --> 00:56:50,153 THINKING. 1307 00:56:50,153 --> 00:56:54,458 THE LAST LITTLE STORY, A LITTLE 1308 00:56:54,458 --> 00:56:55,659 LATER, ABOUT PLATINUM. 1309 00:56:55,659 --> 00:56:58,195 AS YOU KNOW, I'M WORKING WITH 1310 00:56:58,195 --> 00:56:59,429 ANTICANCER DRUG, I REALLY LOVE 1311 00:56:59,429 --> 00:57:02,032 HOW TO FIND HOW THEY WORK. 1312 00:57:02,032 --> 00:57:04,134 AND NOW IF YOU TALK PLATINUM, 1313 00:57:04,134 --> 00:57:10,841 YOU WOULD SAY BRCA 1, -- 1314 00:57:10,841 --> 00:57:11,375 DEFICIENCY. 1315 00:57:11,375 --> 00:57:12,910 BUT AT THIS TIME, AND IT STILL 1316 00:57:12,910 --> 00:57:17,047 TRUE, PLATINUM IS ALSO 1317 00:57:17,047 --> 00:57:20,817 INTERFERING WITH DNA AND -- NEED 1318 00:57:20,817 --> 00:57:24,421 TO BE REPAIRED BY -- REPAIR. 1319 00:57:24,421 --> 00:57:29,793 SO THE QUESTION WAS, IS IT 1320 00:57:29,793 --> 00:57:31,561 GLOBAL TRANSCRIPTION -- REPAIR 1321 00:57:31,561 --> 00:57:33,196 OR TRANSCRIPTION -- KEN HAD ALL 1322 00:57:33,196 --> 00:57:35,399 THE TOOLS TO ACTUALLY CLEARLY 1323 00:57:35,399 --> 00:57:39,136 HELP US DEMONSTRATE THAT 1324 00:57:39,136 --> 00:57:40,337 TRANSCRIPTION COUPLE -- REPAIR 1325 00:57:40,337 --> 00:57:45,709 WAS KEY, NOT GLOBAL -- SO I 1326 00:57:45,709 --> 00:57:50,013 REALLY THANK YOU, KEN, FOR ALL 1327 00:57:50,013 --> 00:57:52,282 YOUR SUPPORT, ALL THE TIME WE 1328 00:57:52,282 --> 00:57:53,383 SPENT TOGETHER AND I WISH YOU 1329 00:57:53,383 --> 00:57:56,720 THE BEST RETIREMENT, AND YOU 1330 00:57:56,720 --> 00:57:59,723 REALLY DESERVE IT, I ENJOY IT 1331 00:57:59,723 --> 00:58:01,291 VERY MUCH, AND I HOPE TO SEE YOU 1332 00:58:01,291 --> 00:58:01,858 AT THE NIH. 1333 00:58:01,858 --> 00:58:02,726 I'M SURE WE COME BACK. 1334 00:58:02,726 --> 00:58:03,894 THANK YOU. 1335 00:58:03,894 --> 00:58:11,768 [APPLAUSE] 1336 00:58:11,768 --> 00:58:12,936 >> THANK YOU, YVES. 1337 00:58:12,936 --> 00:58:18,108 I WOULD LIKE TO NOW INVITE 1338 00:58:18,108 --> 00:58:21,311 MICHELE MILOTA TO SAY A FEW 1339 00:58:21,311 --> 00:58:31,421 WORDS. 1340 00:58:38,028 --> 00:58:39,563 >> CAN YOU HEAR ME? 1341 00:58:39,563 --> 00:58:39,763 HELLO? 1342 00:58:39,763 --> 00:58:40,330 >> WE CAN HEAR YOU. 1343 00:58:40,330 --> 00:58:42,899 >> OKAY, PERFECT. 1344 00:58:42,899 --> 00:58:45,635 AS THE DIRECTOR OF THE XP FAMILY 1345 00:58:45,635 --> 00:58:52,909 SUPPORT GROUP P IT W, IT'S WITHS 1346 00:58:52,909 --> 00:58:56,179 WE HEAR YOU'RE GOING TO RETIRE, 1347 00:58:56,179 --> 00:58:58,115 REMARKABLE MAN WHO'S DEDICATED 1348 00:58:58,115 --> 00:58:59,316 HIS CAREER TO TREATING AND 1349 00:58:59,316 --> 00:59:00,384 ENHANCING THE LIVES OF THOSE 1350 00:59:00,384 --> 00:59:01,251 AFFECTED WITH XP. 1351 00:59:01,251 --> 00:59:03,720 AS YOU JOURNEY AWAY FROM US AND 1352 00:59:03,720 --> 00:59:06,456 WE'RE GOING TO MISS YOU DEARLY, 1353 00:59:06,456 --> 00:59:07,657 YOU'RE NOTHING SHORT OF 1354 00:59:07,657 --> 00:59:09,159 EXTRAORDINARY, AND THE WORLD 1355 00:59:09,159 --> 00:59:10,827 WHERE XP PRESENTS UNIQUE 1356 00:59:10,827 --> 00:59:12,262 CHALLENGES AND UNWAVERING 1357 00:59:12,262 --> 00:59:14,231 COMMITMENT AND EXPERTISE, YOU'VE 1358 00:59:14,231 --> 00:59:15,365 ILLUMINATED THE PATH FOR 1359 00:59:15,365 --> 00:59:18,969 COUNTLESS FAMILIES. 1360 00:59:18,969 --> 00:59:20,404 YOU'VE NOT ONLY PROVIDED MEDICAL 1361 00:59:20,404 --> 00:59:21,505 CARE, ANSWERED NUMEROUS 1362 00:59:21,505 --> 00:59:23,073 QUESTIONS AND HAVE RESEARCHED XP 1363 00:59:23,073 --> 00:59:24,374 FOR YOUR CAREER, BUT YOU ALSO 1364 00:59:24,374 --> 00:59:26,810 HAVE OFFERED US HOPE. 1365 00:59:26,810 --> 00:59:29,312 AND THE STRENGTH TORE FACE THE 1366 00:59:29,312 --> 00:59:32,416 COMPLEXITIES OF THIS CONDITION. 1367 00:59:32,416 --> 00:59:34,051 I REMEMBER WHEN MY DAUGHTER WAS 1368 00:59:34,051 --> 00:59:37,154 DIAGNOSED TW 20 YEARS AGO AND YU 1369 00:59:37,154 --> 00:59:37,988 AND DEBBY AND JOHN WERE THE 1370 00:59:37,988 --> 00:59:39,356 FIRST FACES THAT WE MET THAT 1371 00:59:39,356 --> 00:59:42,826 HELPED US TO OVERCOME THE 1372 00:59:42,826 --> 00:59:44,194 CHALLENGE, SHOWED US THAT WE HAD 1373 00:59:44,194 --> 00:59:45,729 HOPE, SHOWED US THAT WE COULD 1374 00:59:45,729 --> 00:59:47,364 LIVE WITH THIS CONDITION, AND 1375 00:59:47,364 --> 00:59:52,536 YOU GAVE US THE TOOLS NEEDED TO 1376 00:59:52,536 --> 00:59:54,071 LIVE MY DAUGHTER'S LIFE TO HER 1377 00:59:54,071 --> 00:59:54,304 FULLEST. 1378 00:59:54,304 --> 00:59:56,139 I WANT TO SAY THAT SHE'S NOW 1379 00:59:56,139 --> 00:59:58,141 DEDICATING HER CAREER AS A MICRO 1380 00:59:58,141 --> 00:59:59,242 BIOLOGIST AND WANTS TO DO 1381 00:59:59,242 --> 01:00:00,277 RESEARCH. 1382 01:00:00,277 --> 01:00:02,746 SO NOT ONLY DID YOU INSPIRE ME 1383 01:00:02,746 --> 01:00:04,848 TO START THE XP FAMILY SUPPORT 1384 01:00:04,848 --> 01:00:06,516 GROUP BUT YOU'VE ALSO LIT A FIRE 1385 01:00:06,516 --> 01:00:07,984 IN MY DAUGHTER'S LIFE WHERE SHE 1386 01:00:07,984 --> 01:00:09,719 WANTS TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN 1387 01:00:09,719 --> 01:00:13,123 PEOPLE'S LIVES WITH XP AS WELL. 1388 01:00:13,123 --> 01:00:15,525 YOUR RESEARCH AND ADVOCACY HAVE 1389 01:00:15,525 --> 01:00:16,993 PLAYED A PIVOTAL ROLE IN 1390 01:00:16,993 --> 01:00:20,197 BRINGING XP INTO THE BROADER 1391 01:00:20,197 --> 01:00:22,032 MEDICAL AND PUBLIC AWARENESS. 1392 01:00:22,032 --> 01:00:23,166 WITHOUT YOU, KEN, WE WOULDN'T 1393 01:00:23,166 --> 01:00:25,902 HAVE BEEN ABLE TO GO OUT THERE 1394 01:00:25,902 --> 01:00:29,072 AND TO EDUCATE DOCTORS AND 1395 01:00:29,072 --> 01:00:29,973 DERMATOLOGISTS AND RESEARCHERS 1396 01:00:29,973 --> 01:00:32,142 ON THIS CONDITION. 1397 01:00:32,142 --> 01:00:33,243 YOU'VE CHAMPIONED THE CAUSE 1398 01:00:33,243 --> 01:00:35,712 SECURING FUNDING FOR RESEARCH, 1399 01:00:35,712 --> 01:00:38,448 IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF CARE, 1400 01:00:38,448 --> 01:00:42,486 MAKING SIGNIFICANT STRIDES IN 1401 01:00:42,486 --> 01:00:43,120 TREATMENT OPTIONS. 1402 01:00:43,120 --> 01:00:44,254 YOUR EFFORTS HAVE NOT ONLY 1403 01:00:44,254 --> 01:00:45,856 BENEFITED OUR LOCAL XP FAMILIES 1404 01:00:45,856 --> 01:00:48,325 AND COMMUNITY, BUT RESONATED 1405 01:00:48,325 --> 01:00:50,193 ACROSS THE GLOBE, IMPROVING 1406 01:00:50,193 --> 01:00:51,328 LIVES OF THOSE AFFECTED 1407 01:00:51,328 --> 01:00:52,729 WORLDWIDE. 1408 01:00:52,729 --> 01:00:54,698 ALL OF US, ALL OF THE SUPPORT 1409 01:00:54,698 --> 01:00:56,333 GROUPS AROUND THE WORLD LOOK TO 1410 01:00:56,333 --> 01:00:58,468 YOU, KEN, FOR YOUR RESEARCH, 1411 01:00:58,468 --> 01:01:00,570 YOUR GUIDANCE, YOUR 1412 01:01:00,570 --> 01:01:02,973 COLLABORATION WITH OTHER 1413 01:01:02,973 --> 01:01:03,540 COUNTRIES. 1414 01:01:03,540 --> 01:01:05,275 I REMEMBER COMING TO THE XP TASK 1415 01:01:05,275 --> 01:01:06,810 FORCE MEETINGS AND MEETING 1416 01:01:06,810 --> 01:01:08,545 DOCTORS FROM AROUND THE WORLD, 1417 01:01:08,545 --> 01:01:10,213 SITTING AT ROUNDTABLES JUST 1418 01:01:10,213 --> 01:01:12,516 COLLABORATING AND TALKING WITH 1419 01:01:12,516 --> 01:01:14,885 DOCTORS THAT GAVE US XP FAMILIES 1420 01:01:14,885 --> 01:01:16,019 HOPE THAT THERE IS RESEARCH OUT 1421 01:01:16,019 --> 01:01:18,054 THERE AND THAT YOU ALL DO WORK 1422 01:01:18,054 --> 01:01:18,488 TOGETHER. 1423 01:01:18,488 --> 01:01:19,689 AND WITHOUT YOUR GUIDANCE, WE 1424 01:01:19,689 --> 01:01:22,526 WOULDN'T HAVE THAT. 1425 01:01:22,526 --> 01:01:24,661 ON BEHALF OF THE XP FAMILY 1426 01:01:24,661 --> 01:01:26,096 SUPPORT IMREUP AND THE COUNTLESS 1427 01:01:26,096 --> 01:01:27,597 FAMILIES AND PATIENTS WHOSE 1428 01:01:27,597 --> 01:01:28,431 LIVES YOU'VE TOUCHED, WE SAY 1429 01:01:28,431 --> 01:01:28,798 THANK YOU. 1430 01:01:28,798 --> 01:01:30,167 THANK YOU FOR YOUR YEARS OF 1431 01:01:30,167 --> 01:01:32,469 SERVICE, FOR YOUR HEART, YOUR 1432 01:01:32,469 --> 01:01:33,336 DEDICATION IN MAKING A 1433 01:01:33,336 --> 01:01:35,338 DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD OF XP. 1434 01:01:35,338 --> 01:01:37,674 I KNOW DORIS HAS BEEN WAITING TO 1435 01:01:37,674 --> 01:01:39,309 TRAVEL, SPEND TIME WITH THOSE 1436 01:01:39,309 --> 01:01:43,680 GRANDKIDS AT EVERY MEETING I'D 1437 01:01:43,680 --> 01:01:45,015 HEAR SHE'D TALK ABOUT ALL THE 1438 01:01:45,015 --> 01:01:46,016 GRANDKIDS AND WHAT YOU GUYS WERE 1439 01:01:46,016 --> 01:01:47,317 GOING TO DO WHEN YOU RETIRED AND 1440 01:01:47,317 --> 01:01:49,452 SHE'S BEEN TALKING TO ME ABOUT 1441 01:01:49,452 --> 01:01:50,687 THAT FOR THE LAST 18 YEARS SO I 1442 01:01:50,687 --> 01:01:53,190 KNOW SHE'S READY TO START 1443 01:01:53,190 --> 01:01:54,824 ENJOYING LIFE WITH YOU. 1444 01:01:54,824 --> 01:01:57,160 IT'S A WELL-DESERVED RETIREMENT. 1445 01:01:57,160 --> 01:01:58,695 KNOW THAT YOU'VE CHANGED THE 1446 01:01:58,695 --> 01:01:59,896 WORLD, YOU'VE MADE IT A BETTER 1447 01:01:59,896 --> 01:02:02,132 PLACE FOR XP FAMILIES, KEN. 1448 01:02:02,132 --> 01:02:03,833 WE WILL THOROUGHLY MISS YOU BUT 1449 01:02:03,833 --> 01:02:05,402 I KNOW OUR PATHS WILL CROSS AND 1450 01:02:05,402 --> 01:02:07,070 CHEERS TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY 1451 01:02:07,070 --> 01:02:09,739 AND ENJOY YOUR RETIREMENT. 1452 01:02:09,739 --> 01:02:18,582 [APPLAUSE] 1453 01:02:18,582 --> 01:02:22,185 >> THANK YOU, MICHELE. 1454 01:02:22,185 --> 01:02:24,221 WHETHER WE ARE PH.D. OR M.D., WE 1455 01:02:24,221 --> 01:02:25,322 ALL WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A 1456 01:02:25,322 --> 01:02:26,623 DIFFERENCE IN SOMEBODY'S LIFE 1457 01:02:26,623 --> 01:02:27,457 WITH A DISEASE. 1458 01:02:27,457 --> 01:02:29,626 IT IS SO IMPRESSIVE TO SEE AN 1459 01:02:29,626 --> 01:02:33,129 IMPACT YOU HAVE MADE AND TO HEAR 1460 01:02:33,129 --> 01:02:35,332 MICHELE LAY IT OUT, IT'S TRULY 1461 01:02:35,332 --> 01:02:35,899 MOVING. 1462 01:02:35,899 --> 01:02:37,334 SO CONGRATULATIONS ON HAVING AN 1463 01:02:37,334 --> 01:02:38,768 IMPACT ON SO MANY FAMILIES 1464 01:02:38,768 --> 01:02:39,336 AROUND THE WORLD. 1465 01:02:39,336 --> 01:02:45,208 [APPLAUSE] 1466 01:02:45,208 --> 01:02:48,545 UP NEXT, I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE 1467 01:02:48,545 --> 01:02:50,380 ROBERT SARKANY, SPEAKING FROM 1468 01:02:50,380 --> 01:02:52,148 ACROSS THE POND. 1469 01:02:52,148 --> 01:02:56,820 MUST BE LIKE 9:00 P.M. FOR HIM. 1470 01:02:56,820 --> 01:02:57,921 SO GO AHEAD, ROBERT. 1471 01:02:57,921 --> 01:02:59,189 >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR 1472 01:02:59,189 --> 01:02:59,756 INVITING ME. 1473 01:02:59,756 --> 01:03:01,791 I'M REALLY PLEASED TO ALMOST, 1474 01:03:01,791 --> 01:03:06,563 LOW PRESSURE BALMOST BE WITH YO. 1475 01:03:06,563 --> 01:03:09,132 I'M BOB SARKANY, DERMATOLOGIST, 1476 01:03:09,132 --> 01:03:11,334 IN 2006 I TOOK OVER OF THE 1477 01:03:11,334 --> 01:03:15,805 SENSITIVITY DISORDERS UNIT AT 1478 01:03:15,805 --> 01:03:17,007 THE -- DERMATOLOGY IN LONDON. 1479 01:03:17,007 --> 01:03:20,677 AND IT WAS VERY APPARENT TO 1480 01:03:20,677 --> 01:03:23,413 ME -- WE HAD A SMALL GROUP OF XP 1481 01:03:23,413 --> 01:03:24,714 PATIENTS, AND THEY WERE NOT -- 1482 01:03:24,714 --> 01:03:26,416 WE WERE NOT PROVIDING EXPERT 1483 01:03:26,416 --> 01:03:28,718 ENOUGH CARE AND THEY CLEARLY 1484 01:03:28,718 --> 01:03:31,121 NEEDED EXPERT DISCIPLINARY CARE, 1485 01:03:31,121 --> 01:03:33,490 AND I WANTED TO SET OUT SOME 1486 01:03:33,490 --> 01:03:35,091 SORT OF DEDICATED XP SERVICE. 1487 01:03:35,091 --> 01:03:36,860 I HAD NO IDEA HOW TO DO IT, I 1488 01:03:36,860 --> 01:03:38,595 DIDN'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT XP, AND 1489 01:03:38,595 --> 01:03:41,164 EVERYONE I ASKED IN ENGLAND, I 1490 01:03:41,164 --> 01:03:43,566 STARTED WITH ALAN LEHMAN AND 1491 01:03:43,566 --> 01:03:45,602 SAID, WHO DO I ASK? 1492 01:03:45,602 --> 01:03:49,005 I'VE READ A COUPLE OF PAPERS, OF 1493 01:03:49,005 --> 01:03:50,640 COURSE KEN KRAEMER IS THE ONE. 1494 01:03:50,640 --> 01:03:53,109 HE'S THE ONE WHO KNOWS. 1495 01:03:53,109 --> 01:03:55,612 I HAD MY OPPORTUNITY PRETTY 1496 01:03:55,612 --> 01:04:01,418 QUICKLY. 1497 01:04:01,418 --> 01:04:03,586 I'VE GOT SOME SLIDES OF 1498 01:04:03,586 --> 01:04:05,588 MEETINGS, A COUPLE OF MEETINGS 1499 01:04:05,588 --> 01:04:06,589 THAT KEN RAN. 1500 01:04:06,589 --> 01:04:09,559 AND THIS -- IS IT SHARING? 1501 01:04:09,559 --> 01:04:12,929 IS IT SHARING? 1502 01:04:12,929 --> 01:04:14,331 CAN I JUST -- I'LL TRY THAT 1503 01:04:14,331 --> 01:04:17,033 AGAIN. 1504 01:04:17,033 --> 01:04:26,343 IS THAT SHARING? 1505 01:04:26,343 --> 01:04:30,480 YOU GOT SOMETHING NOW? 1506 01:04:30,480 --> 01:04:31,481 DURING 2006, THIS IS ACTUALLY 1507 01:04:31,481 --> 01:04:33,383 THE WRONG SLIDE WHICH DOESN'T 1508 01:04:33,383 --> 01:04:35,452 HELP REALLY MY CAUSE, BUT IN 1509 01:04:35,452 --> 01:04:38,521 2006, I WENT ALONG TO THE 1510 01:04:38,521 --> 01:04:39,189 ININTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM WHICH 1511 01:04:39,189 --> 01:04:41,224 IS HELD EVERY FOUR YEARS IN THE 1512 01:04:41,224 --> 01:04:43,293 XP AND DNA REPAIR DISEASE 1513 01:04:43,293 --> 01:04:47,997 COMMUNITY HELD BY -- HOSTED BY 1514 01:04:47,997 --> 01:04:51,901 DORIS AND KEN WITH YOU IN 1515 01:04:51,901 --> 01:04:53,169 VIRGINIA. 1516 01:04:53,169 --> 01:04:54,170 AND IT WAS KNOCKOUT. 1517 01:04:54,170 --> 01:04:56,339 I WAS SORT OF THINKING SHOULD I 1518 01:04:56,339 --> 01:04:57,707 SET UP A SERVICE? 1519 01:04:57,707 --> 01:04:59,342 JOHN, DORIS, KEN WERE JUST SO 1520 01:04:59,342 --> 01:04:59,542 NICE. 1521 01:04:59,542 --> 01:05:02,512 IT WAS SO INTERESTING. 1522 01:05:02,512 --> 01:05:05,815 AND WHAT REALLY STRUCK ME AS 1523 01:05:05,815 --> 01:05:07,484 WELL, APART FROM THE 1524 01:05:07,484 --> 01:05:08,251 CLASSIFICATION OF THE DISEASE 1525 01:05:08,251 --> 01:05:09,719 OBVIOUSLY WAS INTERESTING WAS 1526 01:05:09,719 --> 01:05:11,521 THAT THEY SEEMED TO -- IT WAS 1527 01:05:11,521 --> 01:05:12,922 VERY STRIKING, THEY WERE 1528 01:05:12,922 --> 01:05:14,524 TREATING THE PATIENTS WHO WERE 1529 01:05:14,524 --> 01:05:15,759 AT THE CONFERENCE AS EQUAL TO 1530 01:05:15,759 --> 01:05:17,627 THE CLINICIANS AND SCIENTISTS. 1531 01:05:17,627 --> 01:05:18,962 I'D NEVER COME ACROSS THAT 1532 01:05:18,962 --> 01:05:19,229 ANYWHERE. 1533 01:05:19,229 --> 01:05:21,398 I WAS VERY STRUCK BY THAT. 1534 01:05:21,398 --> 01:05:24,000 BUT I STOOD UP A 1535 01:05:24,000 --> 01:05:24,934 MULTIDISCIPLINARY SERVICE, A 1536 01:05:24,934 --> 01:05:26,236 VERY SMALL ONE, VOLUNTEERING 1537 01:05:26,236 --> 01:05:29,639 WITH NO FUNDING, RUNNING EVERY 1538 01:05:29,639 --> 01:05:32,475 FEW MONTHS, ANOTHER CLINIC 1539 01:05:32,475 --> 01:05:35,678 RUNNING IN LONDON, AND I APPLID 1540 01:05:35,678 --> 01:05:39,082 TO THE GOVERNMENT AND GOT 1541 01:05:39,082 --> 01:05:41,584 FUNDING FOR AN ALL BELLS AND 1542 01:05:41,584 --> 01:05:43,820 WHISTLES XP NATIONAL SERVICE FOR 1543 01:05:43,820 --> 01:05:46,022 THE UK WHICH WAS REASONABLY 1544 01:05:46,022 --> 01:05:46,322 WELL-FUNDED. 1545 01:05:46,322 --> 01:05:48,158 WHERE TO GO TO FIND OUT ABOUT 1546 01:05:48,158 --> 01:05:49,793 THAT, BECAUSE IN THE 1547 01:05:49,793 --> 01:05:51,294 INTERMEDIATE TIME, I'D BEEN 1548 01:05:51,294 --> 01:05:52,862 LEARNING ABOUT XP EVERY YEAR BY 1549 01:05:52,862 --> 01:05:54,898 GOING TO KEN'S WONDERFUL -- KEN 1550 01:05:54,898 --> 01:05:56,866 AND JOHN'S WONDERFUL SESSION 1551 01:05:56,866 --> 01:05:59,936 ABOUT XP AT THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 1552 01:05:59,936 --> 01:06:02,038 OF DERMATOLOGY. 1553 01:06:02,038 --> 01:06:03,473 ANNUAL VISIT. 1554 01:06:03,473 --> 01:06:05,875 AND WENT IN 2010, THEN, TO THE 1555 01:06:05,875 --> 01:06:07,310 NEXT INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM AND 1556 01:06:07,310 --> 01:06:08,178 ALTHOUGH THIS IS AN 1557 01:06:08,178 --> 01:06:09,012 INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY, AGAIN, 1558 01:06:09,012 --> 01:06:12,849 IT WAS HOSTED BY KEN AND JOHN 1559 01:06:12,849 --> 01:06:15,885 AND DORIS, AND AGAIN IT WAS AN 1560 01:06:15,885 --> 01:06:20,790 ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL MEETING, 1561 01:06:20,790 --> 01:06:23,426 AND -- I PICKED THE WRONG SLIDE. 1562 01:06:23,426 --> 01:06:24,694 I'LL STOP THAT. 1563 01:06:24,694 --> 01:06:26,296 IT'S A GOOD SLIDE AND IT'S WORTH 1564 01:06:26,296 --> 01:06:27,931 SEEING AND I APOLOGIZE FOR 1565 01:06:27,931 --> 01:06:38,208 MESSING THAT UP. 1566 01:06:41,344 --> 01:06:43,913 IS THAT SHARING? 1567 01:06:43,913 --> 01:06:45,648 THAT WAS THE 2006. 1568 01:06:45,648 --> 01:06:48,017 YOU MAY RECOGNIZE THAT. 1569 01:06:48,017 --> 01:06:51,054 2006 MEETING, THAT'S THE FRONT 1570 01:06:51,054 --> 01:06:51,955 PAGE OF YOUR THING. 1571 01:06:51,955 --> 01:06:53,790 THIS IS THE ONE FROM 2010. 1572 01:06:53,790 --> 01:06:55,258 I'VE KEPT THEM ALL BECAUSE THEY 1573 01:06:55,258 --> 01:06:55,825 WERE SO WONDERFUL. 1574 01:06:55,825 --> 01:06:59,762 AND THEN THIS IS AT THE 2010 1575 01:06:59,762 --> 01:06:59,996 MEETING. 1576 01:06:59,996 --> 01:07:01,998 KEN HAD TAKEN IN HIS STRIDE A 1577 01:07:01,998 --> 01:07:03,099 REMARKABLE THING THAT HAPPENED, 1578 01:07:03,099 --> 01:07:05,935 WHICH WAS THE VENUE FOR THIS 1579 01:07:05,935 --> 01:07:08,605 MASSIVE WORLDWIDE THING, IT WAS 1580 01:07:08,605 --> 01:07:11,241 A BIG INTERNATIONAL HIGH 1581 01:07:11,241 --> 01:07:13,443 PRESTIGE IMPORTANT WORLDWIDE 1582 01:07:13,443 --> 01:07:13,877 CONFERENCE. 1583 01:07:13,877 --> 01:07:15,712 THE NIGHT BEFOREHAND, KEN, YOU 1584 01:07:15,712 --> 01:07:17,647 I'M SURE WILL REMEMBER, KEN, 1585 01:07:17,647 --> 01:07:21,284 DORIS AND JOHN, EVERYBODY, IT 1586 01:07:21,284 --> 01:07:23,119 STOOD IN EVERYBODY'S MEMORIES, 1587 01:07:23,119 --> 01:07:24,220 THEY LOST THEIR CONFERENCE 1588 01:07:24,220 --> 01:07:24,921 CENTER. 1589 01:07:24,921 --> 01:07:26,456 AND THEY HAD TO FIND A NEW 1590 01:07:26,456 --> 01:07:28,191 CONFERENCE CENTER IN ABOUT 12 1591 01:07:28,191 --> 01:07:29,893 HOURS' NOTICE, FOUND ONE, HAD A 1592 01:07:29,893 --> 01:07:30,760 WONDERFUL MEETING. 1593 01:07:30,760 --> 01:07:33,730 THIS IS KEN AND DORIS WITH ME 1594 01:07:33,730 --> 01:07:36,299 AND THE GREAT ALAN LEHMAN, MY 1595 01:07:36,299 --> 01:07:39,802 COLLEAGUE FROM LONDON, AT THAT 1596 01:07:39,802 --> 01:07:41,571 MEETING, AT THE END OF A 1597 01:07:41,571 --> 01:07:44,874 TERRIFIC -- SO I NOW HAD A 1598 01:07:44,874 --> 01:07:45,575 MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAM WHO I 1599 01:07:45,575 --> 01:07:47,844 DIDN'T KNOW THAT MUCH SO I KNEW 1600 01:07:47,844 --> 01:07:49,178 MORE THAN I'D KNOWN BEFORE ABOUT 1601 01:07:49,178 --> 01:07:52,515 XP AND HOW TO MANAGE IT, AND I 1602 01:07:52,515 --> 01:07:54,684 HAD MET -- WHERE SHOULD WE GO 1603 01:07:54,684 --> 01:07:56,986 FOR ADVICE, BUT REALLY ALL THE 1604 01:07:56,986 --> 01:08:01,291 KEY MEMBERS OF THE TEAM CAME 1605 01:08:01,291 --> 01:08:05,895 OVER, AND THE NURSES, DEBBY AND 1606 01:08:05,895 --> 01:08:08,197 TANYA AND PREDECESSOR CAME OVER 1607 01:08:08,197 --> 01:08:10,166 AND WERE HOSTED BEAUTIFULLY AT 1608 01:08:10,166 --> 01:08:11,568 THE NIH TO LEARN ABOUT AND TO 1609 01:08:11,568 --> 01:08:13,736 SEE KEN AND JOHN MANAGING THE 1610 01:08:13,736 --> 01:08:15,004 PATIENTS, HOW THEY MANAGE THE 1611 01:08:15,004 --> 01:08:16,539 PATIENTS, WHAT THEY DO, HOW TO 1612 01:08:16,539 --> 01:08:17,640 EXAMINE THE PATIENTS, HOW TO 1613 01:08:17,640 --> 01:08:20,476 TREAT THE PATIENTS. 1614 01:08:20,476 --> 01:08:22,178 AND WHAT WAS SO STRIKING WAS, 1615 01:08:22,178 --> 01:08:24,714 THIS WAS AT THE 2011, AGAIN, THE 1616 01:08:24,714 --> 01:08:29,085 XP MEETING, AAD, IN MIAMI, AND 1617 01:08:29,085 --> 01:08:30,687 THERE'S KEN AND JOHN AND DORIS 1618 01:08:30,687 --> 01:08:35,592 WITH MEMBERS OF MY TEAM, VARIOUS 1619 01:08:35,592 --> 01:08:38,027 MEMBERS OF MY TEAM AND WHAT WAS 1620 01:08:38,027 --> 01:08:39,963 SO STRIKING WAS THEIR GENEROSITY 1621 01:08:39,963 --> 01:08:41,264 WITH THEIR TIME, THEIR 1622 01:08:41,264 --> 01:08:42,465 GENEROSITY WITH THEIR EXPERTISE. 1623 01:08:42,465 --> 01:08:45,368 NOBODY ELSE KNEW THIS STUFF. 1624 01:08:45,368 --> 01:08:47,337 WHAT DO YOU DO ABOUT -- TO SORT 1625 01:08:47,337 --> 01:08:48,771 OUT OF SCALP OF SOMEBODY WITH 1626 01:08:48,771 --> 01:08:50,607 XP? 1627 01:08:50,607 --> 01:08:53,209 WHAT -- HOW DO YOU EXAMINE THESE 1628 01:08:53,209 --> 01:08:54,844 PATIENTS, WITH HUGE NUMBERS OF 1629 01:08:54,844 --> 01:08:55,278 TUMORS? 1630 01:08:55,278 --> 01:08:58,081 YOU KNOW, HOW DO YOU GET THE 1631 01:08:58,081 --> 01:08:59,282 OPHTHALMOLOGIST INVOLVED, ALL 1632 01:08:59,282 --> 01:09:01,017 THOSE SORT OF THINGS AND WE 1633 01:09:01,017 --> 01:09:03,820 JUST -- LAPPED IT UP, IT WAS 1634 01:09:03,820 --> 01:09:04,921 ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL. 1635 01:09:04,921 --> 01:09:06,556 THINGS WENT VERY WELL FOR US AND 1636 01:09:06,556 --> 01:09:08,424 WE PAID THE COMPLIMENT BY 1637 01:09:08,424 --> 01:09:10,226 HOSTING THE SYMPOSIUM OURSELF, 1638 01:09:10,226 --> 01:09:11,761 BEING STRONG ENOUGH TO DO THAT 1639 01:09:11,761 --> 01:09:13,296 IN 2019, BUT I THINK ONE OF THE 1640 01:09:13,296 --> 01:09:14,897 BEST THINGS ABOUT THAT WAS THE 1641 01:09:14,897 --> 01:09:16,532 EVENING OUT THAT WE HAD, THIS IS 1642 01:09:16,532 --> 01:09:17,834 RIGHT AFTER END OF THE 1643 01:09:17,834 --> 01:09:19,168 CONFERENCE, WE HAD JUST PACKED 1644 01:09:19,168 --> 01:09:23,473 UP AND WE HAD AN EVENING OUT IN 1645 01:09:23,473 --> 01:09:24,674 LONDON. 1646 01:09:24,674 --> 01:09:28,411 AFTER THAT. 1647 01:09:28,411 --> 01:09:32,649 SO I SUPPOSE ALL I CAN -- I CAN 1648 01:09:32,649 --> 01:09:35,885 THANK KEN AND DORIS AND ALSO 1649 01:09:35,885 --> 01:09:36,786 POSTHUMOUSLY THANK JOHN AND 1650 01:09:36,786 --> 01:09:38,755 DEBBY. 1651 01:09:38,755 --> 01:09:41,791 DEBBY, OF COURSE, SO WAS SO 1652 01:09:41,791 --> 01:09:43,926 HELPFUL TO OUR NURSES FOR REALLY 1653 01:09:43,926 --> 01:09:45,795 BEING -- PLAYING SUCH A MAJOR 1654 01:09:45,795 --> 01:09:49,532 ROLE IN IMPROVING THE CARE OF 1655 01:09:49,532 --> 01:09:51,868 PATIENTS WITH XP WHO LIVE IN THE 1656 01:09:51,868 --> 01:09:55,938 U.K., NO END, AND REALLY, KEN, 1657 01:09:55,938 --> 01:09:57,440 YOU'VE BEEN AN ABSOLUTELY 1658 01:09:57,440 --> 01:09:58,741 WONDERFUL COLLEAGUE, AND I'M 1659 01:09:58,741 --> 01:10:00,143 SORRY TO SEE YOU RETIRE. 1660 01:10:00,143 --> 01:10:03,646 I'M ALSO PLEASED FOR YOU AND 1661 01:10:03,646 --> 01:10:06,549 DORIS, SO I HOPE YOU HAVE A 1662 01:10:06,549 --> 01:10:07,116 WONDERFUL RETIREMENT. 1663 01:10:07,116 --> 01:10:07,984 THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING. 1664 01:10:07,984 --> 01:10:16,859 [APPLAUSE] 1665 01:10:16,859 --> 01:10:17,827 >> THANK YOU, ROBERT. 1666 01:10:17,827 --> 01:10:21,397 NEXT UP, WE WILL HAVE A FEW 1667 01:10:21,397 --> 01:10:24,667 REMARKS FROM KEN'S SCIENCE 1668 01:10:24,667 --> 01:10:25,034 CHILDREN. 1669 01:10:25,034 --> 01:10:26,636 THESE ARE ALL KIDS FROM HIS LAB 1670 01:10:26,636 --> 01:10:28,004 WHO HAVE NOW GROWN UP AND NOW 1671 01:10:28,004 --> 01:10:29,205 HAVE THEIR OWN FAMILIES, I 1672 01:10:29,205 --> 01:10:30,640 SUPPOSE. 1673 01:10:30,640 --> 01:10:32,809 OR IN THE WAY OF ESTABLISHING 1674 01:10:32,809 --> 01:10:33,776 THEIR OWN FAMILIES. 1675 01:10:33,776 --> 01:10:39,148 SO FIRST UP IS STEFFEN EMMERT 1676 01:10:39,148 --> 01:10:39,782 FROM GERMANY. 1677 01:10:39,782 --> 01:10:40,583 GO AHEAD, PLEASE. 1678 01:10:40,583 --> 01:10:42,685 >> HELLO. 1679 01:10:42,685 --> 01:10:44,087 I HOPE YOU CAN HEAR ME AND I'D 1680 01:10:44,087 --> 01:10:53,062 ALSO LIKE TO SHARE SOME SLIDES. 1681 01:10:53,062 --> 01:10:55,865 SO GOOD AFTERNOON, EVERYBODY. 1682 01:10:55,865 --> 01:10:59,035 AND DEAR KEN AND DEAR DORIS. 1683 01:10:59,035 --> 01:11:00,903 THANKS VERY MUCH FOR THE 1684 01:11:00,903 --> 01:11:02,205 INVITATION, AND OF COURSE FOR 1685 01:11:02,205 --> 01:11:05,441 THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEND A FEW 1686 01:11:05,441 --> 01:11:07,977 WORDS ON YOUR OCCASION OF YOUR 1687 01:11:07,977 --> 01:11:10,046 RETIREMENT. 1688 01:11:10,046 --> 01:11:11,781 THIS IS REALLY A GREAT HONOR FOR 1689 01:11:11,781 --> 01:11:15,251 ME, HOWEVER, THIS IS ALSO A BIG 1690 01:11:15,251 --> 01:11:17,053 CESSATION IN DNA REPAIR RESEARCH 1691 01:11:17,053 --> 01:11:19,956 IN GENERAL. 1692 01:11:19,956 --> 01:11:25,828 SO THIS IS OF COURSE THE KRAEMER 1693 01:11:25,828 --> 01:11:27,897 LAB OVER THE LAST 50 YEARS OR 1694 01:11:27,897 --> 01:11:30,299 SO, DNA TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH 1695 01:11:30,299 --> 01:11:31,901 AROUND THE WORLD, SO THIS MEANS 1696 01:11:31,901 --> 01:11:34,837 REALLY ALWAYS FOCUSING ON THE 1697 01:11:34,837 --> 01:11:38,875 NEEDS OF THEIR PATIENTS, WE'VE 1698 01:11:38,875 --> 01:11:41,911 HEARD ALREADY FROM MICHELE 1699 01:11:41,911 --> 01:11:43,579 MILOTA AND THE SUPPORT GROUPS, 1700 01:11:43,579 --> 01:11:47,850 SSO THE LAB TO THE BENCH AND BAK 1701 01:11:47,850 --> 01:11:49,418 TO THE PATIENTS, THIS IS HOW IT 1702 01:11:49,418 --> 01:11:50,853 SHOULD BE. 1703 01:11:50,853 --> 01:11:52,522 YOU ORGANIZED THE FIRST 1704 01:11:52,522 --> 01:11:55,458 INTERNATIONAL XP WORKSHOP IN 1705 01:11:55,458 --> 01:11:57,160 2006 AT NIH. 1706 01:11:57,160 --> 01:11:59,128 AND IF YOU CAN SEE MY CURSOR 1707 01:11:59,128 --> 01:12:03,699 DOWN HERE, THIS IS THOMAS, YOUR 1708 01:12:03,699 --> 01:12:05,434 FIRST GERMAN POSTDOC, HE WAS 1709 01:12:05,434 --> 01:12:07,203 ALSO PRESENT IN THIS MEETING, 1710 01:12:07,203 --> 01:12:10,139 AND HE WAS MY DOCTORAL FATHER. 1711 01:12:10,139 --> 01:12:13,810 AND THEN HE ORGANIZED, 10 YEARS 1712 01:12:13,810 --> 01:12:16,112 LATER, MY STAY IN YOUR LAB AS 1713 01:12:16,112 --> 01:12:18,514 THE SECOND GENERATION OF GERMAN 1714 01:12:18,514 --> 01:12:23,152 POSTDOCS UNTIL THE MILLENNIUM 1715 01:12:23,152 --> 01:12:26,255 CHANGED IN 2000. 1716 01:12:26,255 --> 01:12:27,456 WELL, AND ALREADY MENTIONED THIS 1717 01:12:27,456 --> 01:12:30,159 SECOND MEETING, YOU ORGANIZED 1718 01:12:30,159 --> 01:12:30,693 THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL 1719 01:12:30,693 --> 01:12:35,064 WORKSHOP ON XP IN 2010. 1720 01:12:35,064 --> 01:12:39,068 AND ALWAYS, AND TH THIS HAS ALRY 1721 01:12:39,068 --> 01:12:40,069 BEEN MENTIONED, WITH YOUR WIFE 1722 01:12:40,069 --> 01:12:41,704 DORIS, AND IF I SHOULD SAY THE 1723 01:12:41,704 --> 01:12:45,641 SAME AS MY WIFE -- HERE IN 1724 01:12:45,641 --> 01:12:48,110 GERMANY, SO A ROLE MODEL FOR 1725 01:12:48,110 --> 01:12:50,413 OTHER PEOPLE. 1726 01:12:50,413 --> 01:12:53,916 SO HERE, HE WAS A DOCTORAL 1727 01:12:53,916 --> 01:12:55,985 STUDENT OF MY LAB IN GERMANY, 1728 01:12:55,985 --> 01:12:57,587 AND REPRESENTS THE THIRD 1729 01:12:57,587 --> 01:12:59,288 GENERATION OF GERMAN POSTDOCS IN 1730 01:12:59,288 --> 01:13:01,724 YOUR LAB. 1731 01:13:01,724 --> 01:13:04,760 SO A REALLY GREAT LINE OF 1732 01:13:04,760 --> 01:13:07,597 POSTDOCS. 1733 01:13:07,597 --> 01:13:10,266 SO CAN YOU TRULY SAY A GREAT 1734 01:13:10,266 --> 01:13:13,836 TEAM, YOUR TEAM, THE KRAEMER 1735 01:13:13,836 --> 01:13:16,639 LAB, NEW GENERATIONS, AT LEAST 1736 01:13:16,639 --> 01:13:19,375 TRY TO CONTINUE ONE WAY OR THE 1737 01:13:19,375 --> 01:13:21,577 OTHER. 1738 01:13:21,577 --> 01:13:24,313 THERE IS A NEW GENERATION IN 1739 01:13:24,313 --> 01:13:30,253 ISRAEL AROUND -- DNA REPAIR 1740 01:13:30,253 --> 01:13:33,256 RESEARCH, AND THERE IS A NEW 1741 01:13:33,256 --> 01:13:35,892 GENERATION IN JAPAN THAT 1742 01:13:35,892 --> 01:13:37,260 ORGANIZED THE THIRD 1743 01:13:37,260 --> 01:13:43,266 INTERNATIONAL XP MEETING IN 2014 1744 01:13:43,266 --> 01:13:48,704 WITH PROFESSOR NISHIKORI AND 1745 01:13:48,704 --> 01:13:55,077 PROFESSOR MORIBACKE, MY 1746 01:13:55,077 --> 01:13:56,812 POSTDOCTORAL PREDECESSOR IN YOUR 1747 01:13:56,812 --> 01:14:03,252 LAB IN 1997. 1748 01:14:03,252 --> 01:14:04,553 SO THEN I WAS REALLY GLAD THAT 1749 01:14:04,553 --> 01:14:09,592 YOU WERE ABLE TO COME TO GERMANY 1750 01:14:09,592 --> 01:14:11,627 IN 2016, WHEN I STARTED AS 1751 01:14:11,627 --> 01:14:14,497 DIRECTOR OF THE DERM CLINIC 1752 01:14:14,497 --> 01:14:19,535 THERE TOGETHER WITH DR. JOHN 1753 01:14:19,535 --> 01:14:20,803 DICHUWANI WHO ALREADY SAID HE 1754 01:14:20,803 --> 01:14:23,205 PASSED AWAY THE LAST YEAR AND 1755 01:14:23,205 --> 01:14:27,877 JOHN IS REALLY MISSED. 1756 01:14:27,877 --> 01:14:31,480 AND THE LAST TIME WE MET WAS AT 1757 01:14:31,480 --> 01:14:33,683 AN ORGANIZATION MEETING OF THE 1758 01:14:33,683 --> 01:14:35,751 FOURTH INTERNATIONAL XP MEETING 1759 01:14:35,751 --> 01:14:40,623 IN 2019 IN CAMBRIDGE, SO I ALSO 1760 01:14:40,623 --> 01:14:44,126 IS SALUTE TO DEBBY, THE JAPANESE 1761 01:14:44,126 --> 01:14:44,894 COLLEAGUES, AND THIS WAS THE 1762 01:14:44,894 --> 01:14:46,329 LAST WORLD MEETING ON DNA 1763 01:14:46,329 --> 01:14:48,397 REPAIR. 1764 01:14:48,397 --> 01:14:52,601 WELL, AND YOU AND JOHN CONTINUE 1765 01:14:52,601 --> 01:14:55,805 TO INSPIRE YOUNG INNOVATIONS, WE 1766 01:14:55,805 --> 01:14:57,606 HEARD ALREADY FROM THE SID 1767 01:14:57,606 --> 01:15:03,980 MEETINGS, SO YOU TOGETHER WITH 1768 01:15:03,980 --> 01:15:08,017 JOHN DOWN HERE GAVE THE -- 1769 01:15:08,017 --> 01:15:11,420 ADDRESS IN 2022, WHEN WE HOST 1770 01:15:11,420 --> 01:15:14,757 AROUND 30 AMERICAN STUDENTS 1771 01:15:14,757 --> 01:15:15,825 MAINLY FROM BROWN UNIVERSITY BUT 1772 01:15:15,825 --> 01:15:21,964 ALSO OTHER PLACES OF THE U.S. 1773 01:15:21,964 --> 01:15:29,138 SO DEAR KEN, DEAR DORIS, KEEP ON 1774 01:15:29,138 --> 01:15:30,373 SAILING AND INSPIRING NEW 1775 01:15:30,373 --> 01:15:32,541 GENERATIONS OF RESEARCHERS AND 1776 01:15:32,541 --> 01:15:34,276 WE LOOK FORWARD TO WELCOMING YOU 1777 01:15:34,276 --> 01:15:38,080 TO THE FIFTH INTERNATIONAL XP 1778 01:15:38,080 --> 01:15:39,949 SYMPOSIUM JUST ABOUT TO ORGANIZE 1779 01:15:39,949 --> 01:15:43,386 HERE IN GERMANY WHICH WILL START 1780 01:15:43,386 --> 01:15:46,255 IN FEBRUARY 2025. 1781 01:15:46,255 --> 01:15:49,759 SO MY WIFE AND I WISH YOU BOTH, 1782 01:15:49,759 --> 01:15:51,994 KEN AND DORIS AND OF COURSE YOUR 1783 01:15:51,994 --> 01:15:56,065 FOUR CHILDREN ALL THE BEST. 1784 01:15:56,065 --> 01:15:57,466 WE HOPE TO SEE YOU SOON. 1785 01:15:57,466 --> 01:16:00,569 THANK YOU. 1786 01:16:00,569 --> 01:16:08,010 [APPLAUSE] 1787 01:16:08,010 --> 01:16:10,246 >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH, STEFFEN. 1788 01:16:10,246 --> 01:16:12,982 NEXT I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE ALAN 1789 01:16:12,982 --> 01:16:15,885 ZHOU FROM CHICAGO. 1790 01:16:15,885 --> 01:16:17,987 ALAN WAS A POSTDOC WITH KEN, AND 1791 01:16:17,987 --> 01:16:22,625 NOW A DERMATOLOGIST. 1792 01:16:22,625 --> 01:16:24,894 >> CAN YOU GUYS HEAR ME OKAY? 1793 01:16:24,894 --> 01:16:25,728 >> YES, WE CAN. 1794 01:16:25,728 --> 01:16:27,797 GO AHEAD, PLEASE. 1795 01:16:27,797 --> 01:16:28,130 >> YES. 1796 01:16:28,130 --> 01:16:29,999 I REALLY WISH I COULD BE THERE 1797 01:16:29,999 --> 01:16:33,469 TODAY, BUT I'M IN SAN DIEGO FOR 1798 01:16:33,469 --> 01:16:35,304 THE AAD MEETING THIS YEAR. 1799 01:16:35,304 --> 01:16:36,305 I JUST WANTED TO SHARE A LITTLE 1800 01:16:36,305 --> 01:16:36,639 BIT. 1801 01:16:36,639 --> 01:16:40,109 I JOINED DR. KRAEMER'S LAB IN 1802 01:16:40,109 --> 01:16:45,748 2009, 2010, AND I WAS AN NIH CRT 1803 01:16:45,748 --> 01:16:47,083 FELLOW AND AT THE TIME I WAS A 1804 01:16:47,083 --> 01:16:48,150 MEDICAL STUDENT AT DUKE AND I 1805 01:16:48,150 --> 01:16:50,019 WAS JUST SO LOST AS TO WHAT MY 1806 01:16:50,019 --> 01:16:52,321 FUTURE CAREER WAS GOING TO BE. 1807 01:16:52,321 --> 01:16:54,156 THERE ARE SO MANY DIFFERENT 1808 01:16:54,156 --> 01:16:55,491 SPECIALTIES IN MEDICINE. 1809 01:16:55,491 --> 01:16:57,226 I HAD NO IDEA WHAT I WAS GOING 1810 01:16:57,226 --> 01:16:57,993 TO DO. 1811 01:16:57,993 --> 01:16:59,829 BUT HERE I GOT TO SPEND SOME 1812 01:16:59,829 --> 01:17:02,898 TIME AND SEE WHAT YOU AND DR. D 1813 01:17:02,898 --> 01:17:05,701 GOT TO DO IN MAKING DISCOVERIES 1814 01:17:05,701 --> 01:17:06,268 WITHIN DERMATOLOGY. 1815 01:17:06,268 --> 01:17:11,040 YOU REALLY -- REALLY SHOWED HOW 1816 01:17:11,040 --> 01:17:14,376 TO DO THIS BEDSIDE TO BENCH TO 1817 01:17:14,376 --> 01:17:16,412 BEDSIDE MODEL. 1818 01:17:16,412 --> 01:17:19,014 SO I DECIDED TO BECOME A 1819 01:17:19,014 --> 01:17:21,217 DERMATOLOGIST AND A PHYSICIAN 1820 01:17:21,217 --> 01:17:22,251 RESEARCHER, AND EVEN IN THE PAST 1821 01:17:22,251 --> 01:17:23,919 FEW WEEKS, WE HAVE STILL BEEN 1822 01:17:23,919 --> 01:17:28,057 CONSULTING WITH YOU AND ABOUT 1823 01:17:28,057 --> 01:17:30,593 OUR CURRENT XP PATIENTS SO I 1824 01:17:30,593 --> 01:17:31,894 REALLY OWE YOU IN HELPING ME 1825 01:17:31,894 --> 01:17:33,195 FIND DIRECTION AT A TIME WHEN I 1826 01:17:33,195 --> 01:17:34,530 WAS LOST, AND FOR SHOWING ME 1827 01:17:34,530 --> 01:17:39,068 THAT, YOU THE MANY DISCOVERIEST 1828 01:17:39,068 --> 01:17:40,402 CAN BE MADE WITHIN DERMATOLOGY 1829 01:17:40,402 --> 01:17:41,704 AND LEARNING FROM THE GENETICS 1830 01:17:41,704 --> 01:17:43,105 OF AN INDIVIDUAL. 1831 01:17:43,105 --> 01:17:44,640 BUT YOU KNOW, MORE IMPORTANTLY, 1832 01:17:44,640 --> 01:17:46,275 I REALLY WANT TO THANK YOU FOR 1833 01:17:46,275 --> 01:17:48,878 THE KINDNESS YOU HAVE SHOWN MEL. 1834 01:17:48,878 --> 01:17:51,147 YOU'VE ALWAYS TREATED ME AS 1835 01:17:51,147 --> 01:17:52,815 FAMILY, AS ANOTHER FATHER TO ME, 1836 01:17:52,815 --> 01:17:54,250 AND I ALWAYS LOOK FORWARD TO 1837 01:17:54,250 --> 01:17:56,819 SEEING YOU AT THE DERM MEETINGS. 1838 01:17:56,819 --> 01:17:58,554 YOU KNOW, IMPORTANTLY, YOU'VE 1839 01:17:58,554 --> 01:18:00,956 SHOWN ME HOW TO BE A GOOD, 1840 01:18:00,956 --> 01:18:02,691 CARING PERSON, NOT JUST TO YOUR 1841 01:18:02,691 --> 01:18:04,894 PATIENTS, BUT TO COLLEAGUES, 1842 01:18:04,894 --> 01:18:06,428 STUDENTS, AND EVEN STRANGERS. 1843 01:18:06,428 --> 01:18:09,465 SO I REALLY WISH YOU AND DORIS 1844 01:18:09,465 --> 01:18:11,333 THE BEST RETIREMENT, AND I 1845 01:18:11,333 --> 01:18:13,502 REALLY HOPE TO BE ABLE TO SEE 1846 01:18:13,502 --> 01:18:16,472 YOU AGAIN SOON IN THE FUTURE. 1847 01:18:16,472 --> 01:18:23,779 [APPLAUSE] 1848 01:18:23,779 --> 01:18:25,414 >> THANK YOU, ALAN. 1849 01:18:25,414 --> 01:18:28,250 NEXT I THINK WE HAVE A SHORT 1850 01:18:28,250 --> 01:18:38,727 VIDEO FROM SALMA DE LA FELD. 1851 01:18:43,832 --> 01:18:44,733 >> HI, EVERYONE. 1852 01:18:44,733 --> 01:18:48,671 MY NAME IS DR. SALMA DE LA FELD, 1853 01:18:48,671 --> 01:18:49,972 AND I'M A DERMATOLOGIST AT 1854 01:18:49,972 --> 01:18:50,506 EMORY. 1855 01:18:50,506 --> 01:18:53,042 ONE OF THE BEST THINGS THAT HAS 1856 01:18:53,042 --> 01:18:54,643 EVER HAPPENED TO ME IN MY LIFE 1857 01:18:54,643 --> 01:18:55,744 IS HAVING THE OPPORTUNITY TO 1858 01:18:55,744 --> 01:18:58,681 HAVE DR. KRAEMER AS MY MENTOR. 1859 01:18:58,681 --> 01:19:00,516 I FIRST MET DR. KRAEMER THE 1860 01:19:00,516 --> 01:19:02,484 SUMMER BEFORE I STARTED MEDICAL 1861 01:19:02,484 --> 01:19:04,119 SCHOOL, WHEN HE TOOK ME UNDER 1862 01:19:04,119 --> 01:19:06,488 HIS WING TO WORK IN HIS LAB. 1863 01:19:06,488 --> 01:19:09,325 WHAT STARTED AS A SUMMER 1864 01:19:09,325 --> 01:19:10,426 RESEARCH PROJECT TURNED INTO A 1865 01:19:10,426 --> 01:19:13,462 LIFETIME OF MENTORSHIP. 1866 01:19:13,462 --> 01:19:15,097 DR. KRAEMER, YOU CHANGED MY 1867 01:19:15,097 --> 01:19:15,297 LIFE. 1868 01:19:15,297 --> 01:19:17,066 I WOULDN'T BE A DERMATOLOGIST IF 1869 01:19:17,066 --> 01:19:18,901 IT WEREN'T FOR EVERYTHING THAT 1870 01:19:18,901 --> 01:19:21,303 YOU AND DR. D DID FOR ME. 1871 01:19:21,303 --> 01:19:23,939 YOU TAUGHT ME SO MUCH ABOUT 1872 01:19:23,939 --> 01:19:26,575 MEDICINE, RESEARCH, AND PATIENT 1873 01:19:26,575 --> 01:19:27,943 CARE BEFORE I EVEN STEPPED FOOT 1874 01:19:27,943 --> 01:19:30,679 IN THE MEDICAL SCHOOL. 1875 01:19:30,679 --> 01:19:32,548 THANK YOU, DR. KRAEMER, FOR 1876 01:19:32,548 --> 01:19:35,150 BEING AN INCREDIBLE MENTOR, AND 1877 01:19:35,150 --> 01:19:37,786 FOR BEING SO ENCOURAGING AND 1878 01:19:37,786 --> 01:19:38,854 APPROACHABLE. 1879 01:19:38,854 --> 01:19:41,790 THANK YOU FOR BELIEVING IN ME. 1880 01:19:41,790 --> 01:19:45,027 I WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER WHEN YOU 1881 01:19:45,027 --> 01:19:47,596 FIRST ASKED ME TO PRESENT A CASE 1882 01:19:47,596 --> 01:19:50,266 AT NIH GRAND ROUNDS. 1883 01:19:50,266 --> 01:19:52,368 I WAS NERVOUS, BUT YOU BELIEVED 1884 01:19:52,368 --> 01:19:54,136 IN ME, AND YOU TOLD ME THAT YOU 1885 01:19:54,136 --> 01:19:55,971 KNEW I'D DO GREAT. 1886 01:19:55,971 --> 01:19:57,406 AND YOU'VE ALWAYS BEEN SO 1887 01:19:57,406 --> 01:19:59,575 SUPPORTIVE AND ENCOURAGING. 1888 01:19:59,575 --> 01:20:01,210 THANK YOU FOR MAKING ME FEEL 1889 01:20:01,210 --> 01:20:03,379 LIKE I COULD MAKE A DIFFERENCE, 1890 01:20:03,379 --> 01:20:06,015 AND FOR MAKING THE STUDY OF 1891 01:20:06,015 --> 01:20:08,050 MEDICINE BEING LESS 1892 01:20:08,050 --> 01:20:08,417 INTIMIDATING. 1893 01:20:08,417 --> 01:20:09,918 I REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME YOU 1894 01:20:09,918 --> 01:20:12,421 EVER SHOWED ME TIGRR TAIL 1895 01:20:12,421 --> 01:20:13,856 BANDING UNDER THE MICROSCOPE, 1896 01:20:13,856 --> 01:20:16,292 AND YOU SAID, SEE, ANYONE CAN 1897 01:20:16,292 --> 01:20:17,593 LOOK AT THE HAIR UNDER THE 1898 01:20:17,593 --> 01:20:18,327 MICROSCOPE AND MAKE THIS 1899 01:20:18,327 --> 01:20:21,230 DIAGNOSIS. 1900 01:20:21,230 --> 01:20:24,199 AND EVERY YEAR THAT I'VE MADE TO 1901 01:20:24,199 --> 01:20:26,702 AAV, I HAVE ALWAYS ENJOYED GOING 1902 01:20:26,702 --> 01:20:28,971 TO THE SATURDAY LUNCH SESSION ON 1903 01:20:28,971 --> 01:20:32,374 XP AND TTD. 1904 01:20:32,374 --> 01:20:34,209 AND EVERY YEAR I'VE MET MORE 1905 01:20:34,209 --> 01:20:36,712 PEOPLE WHOM DR. KRAEMER HAS 1906 01:20:36,712 --> 01:20:38,681 TAKEN UNDER HIS WING, THE SAME 1907 01:20:38,681 --> 01:20:41,417 WAY HE DID FOR ME. 1908 01:20:41,417 --> 01:20:44,453 AND SO, DOCTOR, YOU HAVE DONE SO 1909 01:20:44,453 --> 01:20:47,056 MUCH FOR ALL THE REST OF US, DRO 1910 01:20:47,056 --> 01:20:48,557 WISH YOU ALL OF THE BEST THINGS 1911 01:20:48,557 --> 01:20:50,426 FOR RETIREMENT. 1912 01:20:50,426 --> 01:20:52,494 A HUGE CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR 1913 01:20:52,494 --> 01:20:54,263 RETIREMENT, DR. KRAEMER. 1914 01:20:54,263 --> 01:20:57,399 AND A HUGE THANK YOU FROM ME AND 1915 01:20:57,399 --> 01:20:59,702 FROM ALL OF THE PEOPLE WHOSE 1916 01:20:59,702 --> 01:21:00,602 LIVES YOU HAVE CHANGED. 1917 01:21:00,602 --> 01:21:02,438 THANK YOU. 1918 01:21:02,438 --> 01:21:11,714 [APPLAUSE] 1919 01:21:11,714 --> 01:21:14,583 >> OKAY. 1920 01:21:14,583 --> 01:21:17,486 WE HAVE MAYBE 10 MORE? 1921 01:21:17,486 --> 01:21:19,154 NO, JUST KIDDING. 1922 01:21:19,154 --> 01:21:19,855 [LAUGHTER] 1923 01:21:19,855 --> 01:21:22,958 SO NEXT WE'D LIKE TO INVITE 1924 01:21:22,958 --> 01:21:27,196 JENNIFER PUGH. 1925 01:21:27,196 --> 01:21:31,467 SHE WAS A TRAINEE AND NOW A DERM 1926 01:21:31,467 --> 01:21:34,103 RESIDENT AT WASH-U. 1927 01:21:34,103 --> 01:21:35,371 >> HELLO, EVERYONE. 1928 01:21:35,371 --> 01:21:37,673 I WISH I COULD BE THERE IN 1929 01:21:37,673 --> 01:21:39,074 PERSON TODAY. 1930 01:21:39,074 --> 01:21:41,810 BUT MY NAME IS JENNIFER PUGH. 1931 01:21:41,810 --> 01:21:47,716 I'M A FORMER POSTB POSTBAC FRO. 1932 01:21:47,716 --> 01:21:48,617 DR. KRAEMER'S LAB. 1933 01:21:48,617 --> 01:21:49,651 ONE THING ABOUT GOING TOWARDS 1934 01:21:49,651 --> 01:21:50,986 THE END IS EVERYONE HAS SAID ALL 1935 01:21:50,986 --> 01:21:52,521 THE AMAZING THINGS ABOUT 1936 01:21:52,521 --> 01:21:53,856 DR. KRAEMER SO FAR, AND HIS 1937 01:21:53,856 --> 01:21:56,225 IMPACT. 1938 01:21:56,225 --> 01:21:57,526 SO I HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF 1939 01:21:57,526 --> 01:22:00,496 WORKING WITH DR. KRAEMER FOR 1940 01:22:00,496 --> 01:22:03,732 THREE YEARS AFTER UNDERGRAD FROM 1941 01:22:03,732 --> 01:22:06,268 2015 TO 2018, AFTER WHICH I WENT 1942 01:22:06,268 --> 01:22:10,205 TO MEDICAL SCHOOL AND THEN ON TO 1943 01:22:10,205 --> 01:22:13,041 DERMATOLOGY RESIDENCY AT WASH-U 1944 01:22:13,041 --> 01:22:14,443 IN ST. LOUIS, WHERE I AM 1945 01:22:14,443 --> 01:22:16,311 CURRENTLY. 1946 01:22:16,311 --> 01:22:19,181 TODAY, I REALLY JUST WANT TO 1947 01:22:19,181 --> 01:22:21,784 EXPRESS MY GRATITUDE FOR ALL 1948 01:22:21,784 --> 01:22:24,286 THAT YOU HAVE DONE, DR. KRAEMER, 1949 01:22:24,286 --> 01:22:26,889 AND ECHO MUCH OF WHAT HAS BEEN 1950 01:22:26,889 --> 01:22:28,957 SAID BY THE SPEAKERS TODAY. 1951 01:22:28,957 --> 01:22:33,095 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING SO 1952 01:22:33,095 --> 01:22:36,165 DEDICATED TO SCIENCE AND THE 1953 01:22:36,165 --> 01:22:37,699 BETTERMENT OF PATIENTS' QUALITY 1954 01:22:37,699 --> 01:22:39,334 AND QUANTITY OF LIFE. 1955 01:22:39,334 --> 01:22:41,537 THANK YOU FOR BEING SO DEDICATED 1956 01:22:41,537 --> 01:22:43,138 TO FOSTERING OPPORTUNITIES FOR 1957 01:22:43,138 --> 01:22:45,207 THE NEXT GENERATION OF 1958 01:22:45,207 --> 01:22:47,075 PHYSICIANS AND SCIENTISTS. 1959 01:22:47,075 --> 01:22:49,678 THANK YOU FOR CREATING A LAB 1960 01:22:49,678 --> 01:22:51,880 CULTURE CENTERED AROUND KINDNESS 1961 01:22:51,880 --> 01:22:53,282 AND INCLUSIVITY. 1962 01:22:53,282 --> 01:22:56,452 THANK YOU FOR CHALLENGING ME 1963 01:22:56,452 --> 01:22:57,553 INTELLECTUALLY, MAKING SURE WE 1964 01:22:57,553 --> 01:23:00,055 ATTENDED ALL THE LAB MEETINGS, 1965 01:23:00,055 --> 01:23:01,457 ALL THE DNA REPAIR INTEREST 1966 01:23:01,457 --> 01:23:04,293 GROUP MEETINGS, STAYED INFORMED 1967 01:23:04,293 --> 01:23:06,161 ABOUT ONGOING LAB PROJECTS, EVEN 1968 01:23:06,161 --> 01:23:08,464 THE ONES THAT WEREN'T OUR OWN, 1969 01:23:08,464 --> 01:23:09,898 AND SAW ALL THE PATIENTS IN THE 1970 01:23:09,898 --> 01:23:10,966 CLINICAL CENTER. 1971 01:23:10,966 --> 01:23:13,235 THANK YOU FOR MAKING SURE WE 1972 01:23:13,235 --> 01:23:15,437 MADE TO ALL THE CONFERENCES AND 1973 01:23:15,437 --> 01:23:18,073 ALWAYS PRESENTED OUR WORK. 1974 01:23:18,073 --> 01:23:20,342 IF YOU KNOW DR. KRAEMER, HE WILL 1975 01:23:20,342 --> 01:23:22,110 HAVE YOU SPEAK AT ANYTHING THAT 1976 01:23:22,110 --> 01:23:23,846 HE'S INVOLVED IN IF YOU HAVE 1977 01:23:23,846 --> 01:23:24,947 SOMETHING THAT'S RELEVANT, HE 1978 01:23:24,947 --> 01:23:27,316 WILL HAVE YOU PRESENT THERE, AND 1979 01:23:27,316 --> 01:23:29,418 I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT BECAUSE 1980 01:23:29,418 --> 01:23:33,021 I FEEL LIKE IT PREPARED ME FOR 1981 01:23:33,021 --> 01:23:35,858 JUST BEING ABLE TO SPEAK ABOUT 1982 01:23:35,858 --> 01:23:37,259 MY SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES AND 1983 01:23:37,259 --> 01:23:40,229 JUST GETTING TO KNOW DIFFERENT 1984 01:23:40,229 --> 01:23:42,197 PEOPLE AND HONING THAT 1985 01:23:42,197 --> 01:23:43,599 COMMUNICATION SKILL. 1986 01:23:43,599 --> 01:23:46,768 SO THANK YOU FOR EVERY PAPER, 1987 01:23:46,768 --> 01:23:48,504 POWERPOINT, MEDICAL SCHOOL 1988 01:23:48,504 --> 01:23:50,372 APPLICATION, RESIDENCY 1989 01:23:50,372 --> 01:23:52,007 APPLICATION. 1990 01:23:52,007 --> 01:23:52,908 YOU READ AND 1991 01:23:52,908 --> 01:23:54,276 PROVIDED YOUR HONEST FEEDBACK, 1992 01:23:54,276 --> 01:23:56,144 AND YES, I'M STILL WORKING ON 1993 01:23:56,144 --> 01:24:00,516 CUTTING BACK THE FLOWERY 1994 01:24:00,516 --> 01:24:00,849 LANGUAGE. 1995 01:24:00,849 --> 01:24:03,785 THANK YOU FOR INVITING US TO 1996 01:24:03,785 --> 01:24:07,055 EVENTS AT THE SIN G SYNAGOGUE, E 1997 01:24:07,055 --> 01:24:08,257 MAGNETS YOU BROUGHT US BACK FROM 1998 01:24:08,257 --> 01:24:15,464 YOUR TRAVELS, THE REREESES AND 1999 01:24:15,464 --> 01:24:16,465 M & Ms, YOU KNOW THERE'S A 2000 01:24:16,465 --> 01:24:17,332 BOWL IN THE FRONT. 2001 01:24:17,332 --> 01:24:19,101 THE SUMMER COOKOUTS, THE END OF 2002 01:24:19,101 --> 01:24:21,136 THE YEAR LAB DINNERS, AND OH, 2003 01:24:21,136 --> 01:24:22,571 OUR FRIENDLY COMPETITION WITH 2004 01:24:22,571 --> 01:24:24,406 OUR DAILY STEP COUNT, WHICH I'M 2005 01:24:24,406 --> 01:24:25,474 SURE YOU'RE PROBABLY IN THE LEAD 2006 01:24:25,474 --> 01:24:28,043 NOW. 2007 01:24:28,043 --> 01:24:30,312 AND JUST THANK YOU FOR ALL THE 2008 01:24:30,312 --> 01:24:33,515 YEARS AND ALL THE TIME, ALL THE 2009 01:24:33,515 --> 01:24:35,450 ENERGY, AND THE WORK YOU HAVE 2010 01:24:35,450 --> 01:24:35,684 DONE. 2011 01:24:35,684 --> 01:24:37,786 YOU HAVE TRULY BEEN MORE THAN A 2012 01:24:37,786 --> 01:24:38,320 MENTOR. 2013 01:24:38,320 --> 01:24:40,389 YOU ARE LIKE FAMILY. 2014 01:24:40,389 --> 01:24:41,924 AND MY PARENT ACTUALLY WANTED TO 2015 01:24:41,924 --> 01:24:45,193 LISTEN IN ON THE RETIREMENT 2016 01:24:45,193 --> 01:24:46,161 EVENT SO THEY'RE ON HERE AS 2017 01:24:46,161 --> 01:24:50,265 WELL. 2018 01:24:50,265 --> 01:24:53,035 I'M WISHING YOU ALL THE BEST AND 2019 01:24:53,035 --> 01:24:55,671 HOPING THIS IS A PHENOMENON 2020 01:24:55,671 --> 01:25:00,275 IALNEXT CHAPTER OF LIFE FOR YOU. 2021 01:25:00,275 --> 01:25:01,677 I ALSO HAVE A FEW SLIDES I MADE 2022 01:25:01,677 --> 01:25:02,878 AND I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE, SO 2023 01:25:02,878 --> 01:25:04,379 I'M GOING TO SHARE MY SCREEN 2024 01:25:04,379 --> 01:25:14,623 NOW, IF I CAN. 2025 01:25:18,360 --> 01:25:20,128 I'M A MILLENNIAL BUT I'M STILL A 2026 01:25:20,128 --> 01:25:27,536 LITTLE SLOW AT TECHNOLOGY, SO -- 2027 01:25:27,536 --> 01:25:37,646 OKAY. 2028 01:26:18,487 --> 01:26:21,423 >> SHE MAY BE ON A MAC SO IT MAY 2029 01:26:21,423 --> 01:26:23,158 HAVE FORCED HER TO REBOOT HER 2030 01:26:23,158 --> 01:26:25,527 COMPUTER. 2031 01:26:25,527 --> 01:26:27,029 >> YEAH, SHE'S NOT IN THE ROOM, 2032 01:26:27,029 --> 01:26:27,996 IN THE MEETING RIGHT NOW. 2033 01:26:27,996 --> 01:26:31,299 >> OKAY. 2034 01:26:31,299 --> 01:26:32,834 >> WELL, THAT WAS BEAUTIFUL. 2035 01:26:32,834 --> 01:26:34,036 LISTENING TO HER MAKES ME 2036 01:26:34,036 --> 01:26:34,403 JEALOUS. 2037 01:26:34,403 --> 01:26:36,405 I WISH I WAS A POSTDOC IN YOUR 2038 01:26:36,405 --> 01:26:40,042 LAB. 2039 01:26:40,042 --> 01:26:42,210 NEXT I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE DOUG 2040 01:26:42,210 --> 01:26:43,445 LOWY, A MAN WHO NEEDS NO 2041 01:26:43,445 --> 01:26:44,846 INTRODUCTION FOR US. 2042 01:26:44,846 --> 01:26:45,781 DOUG IS GOING TO PRESENT 2043 01:26:45,781 --> 01:26:46,915 SOMETHING TO KEN AND THEN SAY A 2044 01:26:46,915 --> 01:26:57,092 FEW WORDS. 2045 01:26:57,359 --> 01:26:58,827 >> SO I STAND BETWEEN YOU AND 2046 01:26:58,827 --> 01:27:01,630 KEN MAKING REMARKS. 2047 01:27:01,630 --> 01:27:03,165 AN ENVIABLE POSITION. 2048 01:27:03,165 --> 01:27:05,033 KEN, I THOUGHT THAT THIS WAS 2049 01:27:05,033 --> 01:27:08,503 GOING TO BE EVEN BIGGER, BUT I 2050 01:27:08,503 --> 01:27:10,706 HOPE THAT YOU APPRECIATE THIS. 2051 01:27:10,706 --> 01:27:13,308 IT IS NOT A MEASURE OF YOUR 2052 01:27:13,308 --> 01:27:14,009 ACCOMPLISHMENTS. 2053 01:27:14,009 --> 01:27:17,479 IT IS A SUBSET OF THEM. 2054 01:27:17,479 --> 01:27:20,982 WE ARE SO PROUD OF ALL THAT YOU 2055 01:27:20,982 --> 01:27:25,554 HAVE DONE TO ENHANCE THE NIH, 2056 01:27:25,554 --> 01:27:28,056 AND THIS IS JUST A SMALL TOKEN 2057 01:27:28,056 --> 01:27:32,127 OF WHAT REALLY COUNTS IS THE 2058 01:27:32,127 --> 01:27:33,528 PEOPLE WHO ARE ONLINE, EVERYBODY 2059 01:27:33,528 --> 01:27:38,667 WHO IS HERE, AND IT REALLY IS 2060 01:27:38,667 --> 01:27:39,901 INCREDIBLE. 2061 01:27:39,901 --> 01:27:41,203 >> THANK YOU SO MUCH. 2062 01:27:41,203 --> 01:27:47,209 [APPLAUSE] 2063 01:27:47,209 --> 01:27:49,044 >> AS JENNIFER SAID, EVERYBODY 2064 01:27:49,044 --> 01:27:51,012 HAS ALREADY SAID EVERYTHING. 2065 01:27:51,012 --> 01:27:53,615 BUT NOT ME. 2066 01:27:53,615 --> 01:27:58,887 I JUST WANT TO GIVE YOU JUST A 2067 01:27:58,887 --> 01:28:02,691 COUPLE OF VIGNETTES ABOUT THE 2068 01:28:02,691 --> 01:28:05,193 INCREDIBLE ACCOMPLISHMENT OF KEN 2069 01:28:05,193 --> 01:28:07,729 AND HIS LAB. 2070 01:28:07,729 --> 01:28:11,133 WHETHER IT WAS XERODERMA 2071 01:28:11,133 --> 01:28:13,401 PIGMENTOSUM, OR OTHER CUTANEOUS 2072 01:28:13,401 --> 01:28:16,338 DISEASES WITH DNA REPAIR 2073 01:28:16,338 --> 01:28:19,841 DEFECTS, HE HAS ALWAYS MADE HIS 2074 01:28:19,841 --> 01:28:20,876 MARK. 2075 01:28:20,876 --> 01:28:22,577 BUT NOT JUST IN THE LABORATORY. 2076 01:28:22,577 --> 01:28:25,981 AS YOU HAVE HEARD, THE HUMAN 2077 01:28:25,981 --> 01:28:28,583 DIMENSION FOR KEN HAS REALLY 2078 01:28:28,583 --> 01:28:30,986 BEEN EXTRAORDINARY, AND YOU 2079 01:28:30,986 --> 01:28:33,288 KNOW, YOU'VE HEARD ABOUT HOW 2080 01:28:33,288 --> 01:28:35,457 MANY PEOPLE'S LIVES HAVE BEEN 2081 01:28:35,457 --> 01:28:36,591 TOUCHED BY HIM. 2082 01:28:36,591 --> 01:28:39,861 ON THE ONE HAND, PATIENTS, WHERE 2083 01:28:39,861 --> 01:28:42,130 HE HAS BEEN ABLE TO IMPROVE 2084 01:28:42,130 --> 01:28:44,633 THEIR OUTLOOK, WHICH IS NOT 2085 01:28:44,633 --> 01:28:47,469 EASY, ESPECIALLY FOR A RARE 2086 01:28:47,469 --> 01:28:50,138 CONDITION SUCH AS XP. 2087 01:28:50,138 --> 01:28:54,509 BUT IN ADDITION, THE TRAINEES, 2088 01:28:54,509 --> 01:28:58,880 WHERE HIS MENTORING HAS REALLY 2089 01:28:58,880 --> 01:29:00,615 HAD AN EXTRAORDINARY IMPACT. 2090 01:29:00,615 --> 01:29:03,018 BUT I WOULD BE REMISS IF I 2091 01:29:03,018 --> 01:29:04,920 DIDN'T SAY THE MOST IMPORTANT 2092 01:29:04,920 --> 01:29:08,590 THING RIGHT NOW, WHICH IS THAT I 2093 01:29:08,590 --> 01:29:12,661 HAVE A FEELING THAT BECAUSE OF 2094 01:29:12,661 --> 01:29:14,729 DORIS, KEN IS NOT GOING TO FAIL 2095 01:29:14,729 --> 01:29:16,364 RETIREMENT. 2096 01:29:16,364 --> 01:29:21,269 HE IS GOING TO REALLY BE ABLE TO 2097 01:29:21,269 --> 01:29:25,106 ENJOY IT, LOOK BACK ON AN 2098 01:29:25,106 --> 01:29:28,143 INCREDIBLE CAREER, AND AS WAS 2099 01:29:28,143 --> 01:29:30,212 SAID, THE NEXT CHAPTER OF HIS 2100 01:29:30,212 --> 01:29:32,981 LIFE. 2101 01:29:32,981 --> 01:29:33,215 ANYWAY. 2102 01:29:33,215 --> 01:29:43,391 [APPLAUSE] 2103 01:30:01,409 --> 01:30:02,844 >> WELL, I WANT TO THANK 2104 01:30:02,844 --> 01:30:05,380 EVERYBODY FOR BEING HERE. 2105 01:30:05,380 --> 01:30:06,882 AND ALL THE HARD WORK THAT WENT 2106 01:30:06,882 --> 01:30:08,650 INTO THIS. 2107 01:30:08,650 --> 01:30:14,422 AND HAVING THE MULT MULTIMEDIA R 2108 01:30:14,422 --> 01:30:15,957 THE PEOPLE HERE AND IN EUROPE 2109 01:30:15,957 --> 01:30:18,260 AND WHO ARE STAYING UP LATE, 2110 01:30:18,260 --> 01:30:19,127 THIS IS VERY NICE. 2111 01:30:19,127 --> 01:30:23,598 I'D ALSO LIKE TO POINT OUT THAT 2112 01:30:23,598 --> 01:30:26,434 DEBBY, OUR WONDERFUL RESEARCH 2113 01:30:26,434 --> 01:30:27,936 NURSE, AS A LABOR OF LOVE, 2114 01:30:27,936 --> 01:30:31,039 COLLECTED LETTERS AND NEWS 2115 01:30:31,039 --> 01:30:33,208 ARTICLES AND OTHERS ABOUT THE 2116 01:30:33,208 --> 01:30:35,143 PATIENT THAT WE'VE SEEN OVER THE 2117 01:30:35,143 --> 01:30:36,745 DECADES, AND THERE ARE TWO 2118 01:30:36,745 --> 01:30:39,848 ALBUMS ON THE BACK ON THE TABLE 2119 01:30:39,848 --> 01:30:41,283 THERE, ENCOURAGE YOU TO TAKE A 2120 01:30:41,283 --> 01:30:44,886 LOOK AT THOSE. 2121 01:30:44,886 --> 01:30:45,520 OKAY. 2122 01:30:45,520 --> 01:30:49,024 50 YEARS OF STUDYING DNA REPAIR 2123 01:30:49,024 --> 01:30:53,828 AT NIH, WHERE DID THE TIME GO? 2124 01:30:53,828 --> 01:30:58,533 1965, WE STARTED OUT, MARRIED MY 2125 01:30:58,533 --> 01:31:00,001 HIGH SCHOOL SWEETHEART WHO 2126 01:31:00,001 --> 01:31:01,036 YOU'VE BEEN HEARING ABOUT, AND 2127 01:31:01,036 --> 01:31:03,271 WE'RE STILL MARRIED. 2128 01:31:03,271 --> 01:31:11,880 [APPLAUSE] 2129 01:31:11,880 --> 01:31:14,616 SO I WENT TO BROWN 2130 01:31:14,616 --> 01:31:15,383 UNDERGRADUATE, BROWN UNIVERSITY 2131 01:31:15,383 --> 01:31:19,321 UNDERGRADUATE AND THEN WENT TO 2132 01:31:19,321 --> 01:31:21,456 BOSTON AND THEN DORIS WAS AT 2133 01:31:21,456 --> 01:31:22,824 BOSTON UNIVERSITY, THEN WE GOT 2134 01:31:22,824 --> 01:31:25,860 MARRIED, AND THEN I STARTED THE 2135 01:31:25,860 --> 01:31:28,830 MEDICAL INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY 2136 01:31:28,830 --> 01:31:30,565 IN NEW YORK CITY, 1971, AND THIS 2137 01:31:30,565 --> 01:31:33,902 IS WHAT I LOOKED LIKE THEN. 2138 01:31:33,902 --> 01:31:44,446 AND THAT IS -- THAT IS OUR FIRST 2139 01:31:45,547 --> 01:31:49,551 SORNTION THSON, THAT'S MARTIN, S 2140 01:31:49,551 --> 01:31:50,719 HERE, HE IS THE SECOND SON. 2141 01:31:50,719 --> 01:31:52,988 THIS IS WHAT I LOOKED LIKE. 2142 01:31:52,988 --> 01:31:54,656 AND THE VIETNAM WAR WAS GOING ON 2143 01:31:54,656 --> 01:31:55,957 THERE. 2144 01:31:55,957 --> 01:31:56,825 I WAS DEFINITELY INTERESTED IN 2145 01:31:56,825 --> 01:31:59,127 DOING RESEARCH. 2146 01:31:59,127 --> 01:32:01,730 I APPLIED TO NIH AND WAS LUCKY 2147 01:32:01,730 --> 01:32:04,466 TO GET INTO THE PUBLIC HEALTH 2148 01:32:04,466 --> 01:32:07,402 SERVICE, SO THEY CLEANED ME UP. 2149 01:32:07,402 --> 01:32:10,038 WHEN I CAME HERE. 2150 01:32:10,038 --> 01:32:11,439 SO LET'S GIVE YOU A LITTLE 2151 01:32:11,439 --> 01:32:14,843 TIMELINE WHERE WE ARE. 2152 01:32:14,843 --> 01:32:18,213 1953, DNA STRUCTURE WAS 2153 01:32:18,213 --> 01:32:22,283 PUBLISHED, AS WE KNOW, SO 2154 01:32:22,283 --> 01:32:23,918 ROSALYN FRANKLIN PLAYED A ROLE 2155 01:32:23,918 --> 01:32:29,257 IN THIS -- NCI NOW GETS THE 2156 01:32:29,257 --> 01:32:30,025 FRANKLIN AWARD EACH YEAR. 2157 01:32:30,025 --> 01:32:33,528 SO RIGHT HERE AT NIH, MARSHAL 2158 01:32:33,528 --> 01:32:34,729 NUREMBERG WAS CRACKING THE 2159 01:32:34,729 --> 01:32:39,868 GENETIC CODE, 1951. 2160 01:32:39,868 --> 01:32:41,803 1959, JAMES KLIBER REPORTED ON 2161 01:32:41,803 --> 01:32:43,371 THE DNA REPAIR DEFECT IN 2162 01:32:43,371 --> 01:32:45,974 PATIENTS WITH THIS UNUSUAL 2163 01:32:45,974 --> 01:32:50,578 DISEASE, XP. 2164 01:32:50,578 --> 01:32:54,949 HE WAS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF 2165 01:32:54,949 --> 01:32:56,151 CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO. 2166 01:32:56,151 --> 01:32:58,086 1971 I JOINED THE PUBLIC HEALTH 2167 01:32:58,086 --> 01:33:00,088 SERVICE I JOINED AT THE 2168 01:33:00,088 --> 01:33:02,257 DERMATOLOGY BRANCH AT NCI. 2169 01:33:02,257 --> 01:33:07,062 AND THEN 1977, WHEN THE -- 2170 01:33:07,062 --> 01:33:10,565 STARTED SEQUENCING. 2171 01:33:10,565 --> 01:33:16,805 SO THERE I WAS, OFFICER IN THE 2172 01:33:16,805 --> 01:33:17,572 U.S. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE, 2173 01:33:17,572 --> 01:33:19,607 HERE'S MY COMMISSION FROM THE 2174 01:33:19,607 --> 01:33:19,974 PRESIDENT. 2175 01:33:19,974 --> 01:33:21,609 I WAS THERE FOR 30 YEARS UNTIL 2176 01:33:21,609 --> 01:33:23,378 THEY KICKED ME OUT. 2177 01:33:23,378 --> 01:33:26,247 BUT DURING THIS TIME, I 2178 01:33:26,247 --> 01:33:30,051 VOLUNTEERED TO SERVE AS AN 2179 01:33:30,051 --> 01:33:33,121 INTERVIEWER FOR -- UNIFORMED 2180 01:33:33,121 --> 01:33:34,255 SERVICES. 2181 01:33:34,255 --> 01:33:40,128 CLOSE TO 200 OF THEM. 2182 01:33:40,128 --> 01:33:44,732 PROFESSOR OF DERMATOLOGY THERE. 2183 01:33:44,732 --> 01:33:46,701 SO WHAT DID NIH LOOK LIKE HERE, 2184 01:33:46,701 --> 01:33:48,770 THE CANCER INSTITUTE? 2185 01:33:48,770 --> 01:33:50,105 HERE'S THE CLINICAL STAFF 2186 01:33:50,105 --> 01:33:50,538 PHOTOGRAPH. 2187 01:33:50,538 --> 01:33:51,639 YOU CAN FIND ME WAY UP IN THE 2188 01:33:51,639 --> 01:33:53,908 CORNER. 2189 01:33:53,908 --> 01:33:56,945 ONE OF THE UNUSUAL THINGS ABOUT 2190 01:33:56,945 --> 01:33:59,247 THIS, ON THE FIRST ROW HAD 2191 01:33:59,247 --> 01:34:02,650 SENIOR STAFF, AND -- WHAT WAS 2192 01:34:02,650 --> 01:34:06,020 HER NAME? 2193 01:34:06,020 --> 01:34:09,891 BRIDBRIDGET -- SHE'S THE ONLY WN 2194 01:34:09,891 --> 01:34:11,960 IN THIS WHOLE PICTURE. 2195 01:34:11,960 --> 01:34:12,827 SHE'S SENIOR STAFF AND THERE 2196 01:34:12,827 --> 01:34:15,063 WERE NO WOMEN IN CLINICAL 2197 01:34:15,063 --> 01:34:15,363 ASSOCIATES. 2198 01:34:15,363 --> 01:34:17,098 SO YOU CAN SEE HOW THINGS HAVE 2199 01:34:17,098 --> 01:34:18,833 CHANGED. 2200 01:34:18,833 --> 01:34:20,668 SO I WAS WORKING IN THE 2201 01:34:20,668 --> 01:34:21,669 DERMATOLOGY BRANCH, I WAS 2202 01:34:21,669 --> 01:34:23,204 ASSIGNED TO WORK IN THE 2203 01:34:23,204 --> 01:34:24,839 DERMATOLOGY BRANCH AND I'VE 2204 01:34:24,839 --> 01:34:28,776 WORKED WITH DR. JAY ROBBINS, 2205 01:34:28,776 --> 01:34:31,513 1971, JAMES KLIBER HAD COME TO 2206 01:34:31,513 --> 01:34:33,348 NIH AND A LITTLE BEFORE THAT TO 2207 01:34:33,348 --> 01:34:35,250 TELL US ABOUT THE DNA REPAIR 2208 01:34:35,250 --> 01:34:36,317 DEFECT, AND SO I GOT INTERESTED 2209 01:34:36,317 --> 01:34:43,658 IN WORKING WITH XERODERMA. 2210 01:34:43,658 --> 01:34:45,260 SO WE WERE BRINGING PATIENTS IN 2211 01:34:45,260 --> 01:34:48,163 AND A FEW YEARS LATER, WE 2212 01:34:48,163 --> 01:34:52,100 PUBLISHED THIS DETAILED CLINICAL 2213 01:34:52,100 --> 01:34:56,671 LABORATORY DESCRIPTION OF 15 XP 2214 01:34:56,671 --> 01:34:58,206 PATIENTS, THEY HAD FOUR CLINICAL 2215 01:34:58,206 --> 01:35:00,508 PHENOTYPES AND THIS IS 2216 01:35:00,508 --> 01:35:02,911 CONSIDERED A CITATION CLASSIC. 2217 01:35:02,911 --> 01:35:06,514 THIS WAS XP1 -- WHO HAD 2218 01:35:06,514 --> 01:35:08,049 DEFECTIVE DNA REPAIR. 2219 01:35:08,049 --> 01:35:10,018 HE HAD NORMAL DNA REPAIR. 2220 01:35:10,018 --> 01:35:11,219 THAT WAS UNUSUAL. 2221 01:35:11,219 --> 01:35:16,257 AND THAT HE WAS -- SO WHY DO WE 2222 01:35:16,257 --> 01:35:17,792 STUDY RARE HUMAN GENETIC 2223 01:35:17,792 --> 01:35:18,326 DISEASES? 2224 01:35:18,326 --> 01:35:20,628 WE CARE FOR AFFECTED PATIENTS, 2225 01:35:20,628 --> 01:35:22,530 DISCOVER MECHANISMS OF DISEASE, 2226 01:35:22,530 --> 01:35:25,133 AND DEVELOP NEW THERAPEUTIC 2227 01:35:25,133 --> 01:35:27,902 PARADIGMS USING SMALL NUMBERS OF 2228 01:35:27,902 --> 01:35:30,038 PATIENTS AT HIGH RISK. 2229 01:35:30,038 --> 01:35:34,209 SO I WENT TO -- I WAS THROW 2230 01:35:34,209 --> 01:35:36,844 YEARS IN THE DERMATOLOGY BRANCH 2231 01:35:36,844 --> 01:35:38,446 INITIALLY AND THEN I WENT TO 2232 01:35:38,446 --> 01:35:40,748 MIAMI AND DID DERMATOLOGY 2233 01:35:40,748 --> 01:35:41,749 TRAINING AND I CAME BACK AND 2234 01:35:41,749 --> 01:35:44,052 JOINED THE LABORATORY OF 2235 01:35:44,052 --> 01:35:46,988 MOLECULAR CARCINOGENESIS, 1976 2236 01:35:46,988 --> 01:35:48,823 TO 1999. 2237 01:35:48,823 --> 01:35:53,795 THIS IS HARRY GELBOIN, BRANCH 2238 01:35:53,795 --> 01:35:57,932 CHIEF, VERY INTERESTING, HE 2239 01:35:57,932 --> 01:36:03,071 CLIMBED MOUNT KILL MOUNT KILIMAW 2240 01:36:03,071 --> 01:36:03,605 TIMES. 2241 01:36:03,605 --> 01:36:05,139 THEN PARACHUTED FROM THERE. 2242 01:36:05,139 --> 01:36:08,543 AS YOU HEARD FROM DR. BOHR, WE 2243 01:36:08,543 --> 01:36:10,411 HAD THE DNA REPAIR INTEREST 2244 01:36:10,411 --> 01:36:10,812 GROUP. 2245 01:36:10,812 --> 01:36:14,983 WHEN WE STARTED, WE WERE A 2246 01:36:14,983 --> 01:36:18,820 LITTLE VAGUE, 1985. 2247 01:36:18,820 --> 01:36:20,588 AT THIS POINT, CHARLENE HAS 2248 01:36:20,588 --> 01:36:22,757 DOCUMENTED THEM FOR ME, THANK 2249 01:36:22,757 --> 01:36:23,758 YOU, CHARLENE. 2250 01:36:23,758 --> 01:36:26,261 WE HAVE AN EMAIL LIST OF MORE 2251 01:36:26,261 --> 01:36:30,265 THAN 1200 SUBSCRIBERS, AND IN 2252 01:36:30,265 --> 01:36:32,267 2023, BOTH VIL AND I STEPPED 2253 01:36:32,267 --> 01:36:36,671 DOWN AND KAREN AND CHUNZHANG 2254 01:36:36,671 --> 01:36:38,172 TOOK OVER. 2255 01:36:38,172 --> 01:36:40,908 ANOTHER PAPER WE DID WORKING 2256 01:36:40,908 --> 01:36:42,877 WITH JOHN, JOHN UNFORTUNATELY 2257 01:36:42,877 --> 01:36:47,815 PASSED AWAY A YEAR AGO. 2258 01:36:47,815 --> 01:36:49,450 DR. -- WAS TALKING ABOUT 2259 01:36:49,450 --> 01:36:49,884 RETINOIDS. 2260 01:36:49,884 --> 01:36:53,755 THIS IS THE STUDY WHERE WE SHO 2261 01:36:53,755 --> 01:36:56,024 SHOWED -- WERE GOOD AT 2262 01:36:56,024 --> 01:36:57,091 PREVENTING CANCER IN XP 2263 01:36:57,091 --> 01:36:57,592 PATIENTS. 2264 01:36:57,592 --> 01:37:02,563 SO HERE'S A PATIENT, 43 TE TUMO, 2265 01:37:02,563 --> 01:37:06,067 DURING THE TREATMENT WITH 2266 01:37:06,067 --> 01:37:08,703 ACCUTANE - -- SO THIS WAS ACTUAY 2267 01:37:08,703 --> 01:37:11,739 THE FIRST DEMONSTRATION OF 2268 01:37:11,739 --> 01:37:12,740 CANCER -- PREVENTION USING 2269 01:37:12,740 --> 01:37:14,375 MEDICINES TO PREVENT CANCER IN 2270 01:37:14,375 --> 01:37:19,614 HUMANS. 2271 01:37:19,614 --> 01:37:25,320 -- PATIENTS WHO HAD MANY TUM 2272 01:37:25,320 --> 01:37:26,220 TUMORS -- THIS WAS NEW ENGLAND 2273 01:37:26,220 --> 01:37:26,454 JOURNAL. 2274 01:37:26,454 --> 01:37:31,559 WE WORKED CLOSELY WITH A 2275 01:37:31,559 --> 01:37:35,163 STATISTICIAN, E EPIDEMIOLOGIST. 2276 01:37:35,163 --> 01:37:39,434 SO HERE'S A MEETING IN 1995 IN 2277 01:37:39,434 --> 01:37:42,704 MEXICO WITH DR. KLIBER, AND TWO 2278 01:37:42,704 --> 01:37:53,247 OF THE POSTDOCS IN THE LAB. 2279 01:38:00,388 --> 01:38:04,058 AND THERE'S MICHELE. 2280 01:38:04,058 --> 01:38:06,794 SHE WAS AT THAT MEETING ALSO. 2281 01:38:06,794 --> 01:38:15,103 WE'LL LET HER -- AND DR. BOHR. 2282 01:38:15,103 --> 01:38:18,940 SO WE STARTED THESE -- NCI SAID 2283 01:38:18,940 --> 01:38:21,876 HERE WE HAVE SOME MONEY, LET'S 2284 01:38:21,876 --> 01:38:23,311 DO A CONFERENCE, SO WE SAID 2285 01:38:23,311 --> 01:38:24,078 OKAY. 2286 01:38:24,078 --> 01:38:25,880 SO WE HAD THIS NOVEL CONCEPT AT 2287 01:38:25,880 --> 01:38:27,882 THE TIME, AT LEAST, OF BRINGING 2288 01:38:27,882 --> 01:38:30,084 TOGETHER BASICALLY RESEARCHERS, 2289 01:38:30,084 --> 01:38:31,386 CLINICIANS AND PAPERS. 2290 01:38:31,386 --> 01:38:33,888 AND SO IT WASN'T TOO HARD TO GET 2291 01:38:33,888 --> 01:38:37,759 THESE IK RESEARCHERS -- THE 2292 01:38:37,759 --> 01:38:39,694 CLINICIANS WERE A LITTLE HARDER 2293 01:38:39,694 --> 01:38:41,996 BUT THE PATIENTS -- BECAUSE I 2294 01:38:41,996 --> 01:38:50,104 WENT TO -- [INAUDIBLE] BUT 2295 01:38:50,104 --> 01:38:51,639 HERE'S THE MEETING, THE FIRST 2296 01:38:51,639 --> 01:38:55,143 ONE IN 2004, THE NATIONAL 2297 01:38:55,143 --> 01:38:57,011 CONFERENCE IN VIRGINIA AND THEN 2298 01:38:57,011 --> 01:39:00,281 THEY HAD 2006 TO 2010 -- AND A 2299 01:39:00,281 --> 01:39:02,350 LOT OF THESE BASIC RESEARCHERS 2300 01:39:02,350 --> 01:39:03,751 HAVE NEVER SEEN PATIENTS, SOME 2301 01:39:03,751 --> 01:39:07,288 OF THEM REALLY GOT INSPIRED. 2302 01:39:07,288 --> 01:39:10,558 AND DEVELOPED CAREERS WITH THEM. 2303 01:39:10,558 --> 01:39:17,465 AND THEN -- AND WE BRING NOT 2304 01:39:17,465 --> 01:39:20,334 ONLY -- BUT WE BRING STUDENTS 2305 01:39:20,334 --> 01:39:22,270 FROM LOCAL HIGH SCHOOLS. 2306 01:39:22,270 --> 01:39:23,404 THE FIRST ONE WAS HERE IN 2307 01:39:23,404 --> 01:39:27,108 WASHINGTON. 2308 01:39:27,108 --> 01:39:30,645 SO SHE BROUGHT HER CLASS. 2309 01:39:30,645 --> 01:39:33,047 THESE HIGH SCHOOL KIDS WOULD 2310 01:39:33,047 --> 01:39:36,117 SPEND A DAY TALKING TO 2311 01:39:36,117 --> 01:39:36,751 DERMATOLOGISTS. 2312 01:39:36,751 --> 01:39:38,886 MANY OF THE MEMBERS OF THE -- 2313 01:39:38,886 --> 01:39:42,990 WERE VERY INTERESTED -- LUNCHEON 2314 01:39:42,990 --> 01:39:44,525 FOR THEM AND THEY WOULD TALK 2315 01:39:44,525 --> 01:39:46,828 ABOUT THEIR CAREERS AND WHY THEY 2316 01:39:46,828 --> 01:39:53,301 WENT INTO DERMATOLOGY, -- IT 2317 01:39:53,301 --> 01:39:56,804 DIDN'T WORK. 2318 01:39:56,804 --> 01:39:58,506 SO THAT WENT ON FOR A LONG 2319 01:39:58,506 --> 01:40:02,810 PERIOD OF TIME. 2320 01:40:02,810 --> 01:40:05,446 AND BE EVENT LIP I RECEIVED AN 2321 01:40:05,446 --> 01:40:06,080 AWARD FOR THIS. 2322 01:40:06,080 --> 01:40:08,149 THE PROGRAM -- DERMATOLOGY 2323 01:40:08,149 --> 01:40:15,389 EDUCATION FOR STUDENTS -- AND 2324 01:40:15,389 --> 01:40:18,259 THEN I STARTED WORKING WITH 2325 01:40:18,259 --> 01:40:21,496 PEGGY TUCKER, WHO YOU HEARD, AND 2326 01:40:21,496 --> 01:40:23,598 ALSO ELISA GOLDSTEIN, AND THEY 2327 01:40:23,598 --> 01:40:26,000 HAD A FELLOW WHO WAS INTERESTED 2328 01:40:26,000 --> 01:40:27,902 IN DERMATOLOGY. 2329 01:40:27,902 --> 01:40:30,471 AND WE WENT THROUGH ALL OF THIS 2330 01:40:30,471 --> 01:40:32,473 40 YEARS OF DATA THAT WE HAD 2331 01:40:32,473 --> 01:40:34,442 ALREADY ACCUMULATED ON OUR XP 2332 01:40:34,442 --> 01:40:37,812 PATIENTS TO SEE HOW MANY SKIN 2333 01:40:37,812 --> 01:40:39,780 CANCERS AND OTHER -- THIS IS THE 2334 01:40:39,780 --> 01:40:42,216 FIRST TIME WE REALLY WERE ABLE 2335 01:40:42,216 --> 01:40:43,951 TO GET GOOD CONCENTRATED 2336 01:40:43,951 --> 01:40:46,821 NUMBERS, AND THE XP PATIENTS 2337 01:40:46,821 --> 01:40:49,557 THAT HAD -- IN AGE OF ONSET OF 2338 01:40:49,557 --> 01:40:53,594 SKIN CANCER, NON-MELANOMA SKIN 2339 01:40:53,594 --> 01:40:58,199 CANCER, AND LISA GOLDSTEIN -- 2340 01:40:58,199 --> 01:41:01,168 THIS IS ABOUT A 10,000 FOLD 2341 01:41:01,168 --> 01:41:05,873 ENTRY IN SKIN CANCER AND AGE OF 2342 01:41:05,873 --> 01:41:08,509 ONSET IN XP PATIENTS. 2343 01:41:08,509 --> 01:41:10,878 IT WAS AT A DIFFERENT MEETING, 2344 01:41:10,878 --> 01:41:14,315 22 VERSUS -- IN THE DISTANCE 2345 01:41:14,315 --> 01:41:16,517 BETWEEN THE GENERAL POPULATION. 2346 01:41:16,517 --> 01:41:18,386 SO THIS TELLS US RIGHT AWAY THAT 2347 01:41:18,386 --> 01:41:20,988 MELANOMA INDUCTION MECHANISM IS 2348 01:41:20,988 --> 01:41:23,858 DIFFERENT FROM NON-MELANOMA SKIN 2349 01:41:23,858 --> 01:41:24,692 CANCER. 2350 01:41:24,692 --> 01:41:33,067 JUST BY STUDYING -- CANCER AN 2351 01:41:33,067 --> 01:41:34,802 AND -- THIS IS THE AMERICAN 2352 01:41:34,802 --> 01:41:37,038 ACADEMY OF DERMATOLOGY. 2353 01:41:37,038 --> 01:41:40,541 FOR MANY YEARS, JOHN AND I WOULD 2354 01:41:40,541 --> 01:41:45,246 HAVE A -- ON SATURDAY MORNING 2355 01:41:45,246 --> 01:41:48,449 WHERE WE -- DERMATOLOGISTS FROM 2356 01:41:48,449 --> 01:41:50,518 ALL OVER THE WORLD WHO ARE AT 2357 01:41:50,518 --> 01:41:57,758 THE ACADEMY MEETING, AND -- 2358 01:41:57,758 --> 01:42:00,595 WOULD COME AND TALK, RESIDENTS 2359 01:42:00,595 --> 01:42:03,230 WITH XP, WHATEVER PROBLEMS, AND 2360 01:42:03,230 --> 01:42:05,967 THERE IS MICHELE MIOTA. 2361 01:42:05,967 --> 01:42:11,205 I SEE YOU OFTEN ATTENDED THAT. 2362 01:42:11,205 --> 01:42:17,011 SO THIS IS CALLED THE XP -- AT 2363 01:42:17,011 --> 01:42:17,678 THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF 2364 01:42:17,678 --> 01:42:18,412 DERMATOLOGY. 2365 01:42:18,412 --> 01:42:22,683 WE HAVE A TRAY DIGS, IT WAS THE 2366 01:42:22,683 --> 01:42:24,785 SUMMER BEFORE COVID, WE HAD A 2367 01:42:24,785 --> 01:42:25,886 POTLUCK DINNER. 2368 01:42:25,886 --> 01:42:27,421 FOR MANY YEARS. 2369 01:42:27,421 --> 01:42:31,125 THIS WAS A FAMILY EVENT AND WE'D 2370 01:42:31,125 --> 01:42:34,629 ENCOURAGE PEOPLE -- HERE WE HAVE 2371 01:42:34,629 --> 01:42:41,302 SUMMER STUDENTS, WE WANT TO -- 2372 01:42:41,302 --> 01:42:48,576 AND -- HERE IS SIKANDER, HERE IS 2373 01:42:48,576 --> 01:42:49,010 DEBBY. 2374 01:42:49,010 --> 01:42:50,244 HE WAS TALKING ABOUT BRINGING 2375 01:42:50,244 --> 01:42:54,782 HIS CHILDREN TO THIS MEETING. 2376 01:42:54,782 --> 01:42:56,951 WE HAD A SITE VISIT, AND THE 2377 01:42:56,951 --> 01:42:59,620 PEOPLE A FEW YEARS AGO FOR LCBG 2378 01:42:59,620 --> 01:43:04,659 AND THE PEOPLE IN THE LAB -- PUT 2379 01:43:04,659 --> 01:43:06,627 TOGETHER A POSTER -- WE ARE A 2380 01:43:06,627 --> 01:43:10,464 FAMILY, I THINK IS APPEARING. 2381 01:43:10,464 --> 01:43:15,069 AND THE LONG-TIME MEMBERS OF THE 2382 01:43:15,069 --> 01:43:18,139 TEAM, -- UNFORTUNATELY PASSED 2383 01:43:18,139 --> 01:43:22,943 AWAY A YEAR AGO, BUT DEBBY -- 2384 01:43:22,943 --> 01:43:28,215 SUPERB RENURSE AND SIKANDAR 2385 01:43:28,215 --> 01:43:29,150 KHAN. 2386 01:43:29,150 --> 01:43:33,320 AND THE LCBG, SINCE 2017, AND 2387 01:43:33,320 --> 01:43:38,959 THANK YOU VERY MUCH, WONDERFUL. 2388 01:43:38,959 --> 01:43:40,961 [APPLAUSE] 2389 01:43:40,961 --> 01:43:47,301 BUT THERE'S MORE. 2390 01:43:47,301 --> 01:43:49,904 NOW WE GO ON TO RETIREMENT. 2391 01:43:49,904 --> 01:43:53,074 SO THIS YEAR, WE'VE GOT FOUR 2392 01:43:53,074 --> 01:43:54,975 KIDS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY, SO 2393 01:43:54,975 --> 01:43:57,812 UNTIL JANUARY WE WENT TO TUCSON, 2394 01:43:57,812 --> 01:43:59,346 ARIZONA, WHERE IT'S NICE AND 2395 01:43:59,346 --> 01:43:59,547 WARM. 2396 01:43:59,547 --> 01:44:04,819 IT'S COLD HERE, IT WARM THERE. 2397 01:44:04,819 --> 01:44:06,687 IN FEBRUARY WE WERE JUST IN 2398 01:44:06,687 --> 01:44:08,923 CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO, BUT 2399 01:44:08,923 --> 01:44:10,091 MARTIN HERE, HE'S THE ONE THAT 2400 01:44:10,091 --> 01:44:11,625 WAS IN THE ORIGINAL PICTURE THAT 2401 01:44:11,625 --> 01:44:15,229 WE SHOWED, 1971 WITH MARTIN, 2402 01:44:15,229 --> 01:44:17,531 THIS IS HIS FAMILY AND OUR 2403 01:44:17,531 --> 01:44:19,734 DAUGHTER IS IN SAN FRANCISCO. 2404 01:44:19,734 --> 01:44:24,338 REBECCA IS HERE FROM ANN ARBOR, 2405 01:44:24,338 --> 01:44:29,376 TO GO VISIT THEM, AND THEN DAVID 2406 01:44:29,376 --> 01:44:31,278 IS LIVING IN VERMONT, THIS IS 2407 01:44:31,278 --> 01:44:32,646 HIS FARM, AND HERE'S WHEN THE 2408 01:44:32,646 --> 01:44:35,516 WHOLE FAMILY GOT TOGETHER THERE. 2409 01:44:35,516 --> 01:44:41,622 AND NOW, TO THE BIG REVEAL. 2410 01:44:41,622 --> 01:44:44,258 THIS IS THE SHIRT. 2411 01:44:44,258 --> 01:44:48,095 MY DAUGHTER SARAH MADE THIS. 2412 01:44:48,095 --> 01:44:58,272 [APPLAUSE] 2413 01:45:01,208 --> 01:45:02,676 SHE'S AN ARTISTIC LAWYER, AND 2414 01:45:02,676 --> 01:45:04,945 SHE ASKED WHAT REPLICATING DNA 2415 01:45:04,945 --> 01:45:08,449 LOOKS LIKE, AND HERE WE GO. 2416 01:45:08,449 --> 01:45:10,251 THESE ARE DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE 2417 01:45:10,251 --> 01:45:13,921 WORLD WE WENT TO, JUST 2418 01:45:13,921 --> 01:45:15,589 ORGANIZATIONS THAT YOU'VE BEEN 2419 01:45:15,589 --> 01:45:18,092 HEARING ABOUT, FAMILY MEMBERS, 2420 01:45:18,092 --> 01:45:23,030 NIH, 50 YEARS OF NIH. 2421 01:45:23,030 --> 01:45:24,365 THERE IT IS. 2422 01:45:24,365 --> 01:45:34,542 [APPLAUSE] 2423 01:45:43,784 --> 01:45:45,686 >> THANK YOU, KEN, THAT WAS 2424 01:45:45,686 --> 01:45:46,453 AMAZING. 2425 01:45:46,453 --> 01:45:47,354 BEAUTIFUL LOOKING SHIRT. 2426 01:45:47,354 --> 01:45:51,091 >> DR. KRAEMER, DO YOU HAVE -- 2427 01:45:51,091 --> 01:45:52,693 >> WE'RE JUST GOING TO DO 2428 01:45:52,693 --> 01:45:53,694 EVERYTHING HERE. 2429 01:45:53,694 --> 01:45:54,028 OH, SORRY. 2430 01:45:54,028 --> 01:45:55,229 WHAT WAS THAT? 2431 01:45:55,229 --> 01:45:57,965 >> DO YOU MIND IF I SHARE THE 2432 01:45:57,965 --> 01:45:58,632 SLIDES? 2433 01:45:58,632 --> 01:46:00,701 THEY'RE VERY BRIEF. 2434 01:46:00,701 --> 01:46:05,639 OKAY. 2435 01:46:05,639 --> 01:46:06,507 I'LL TRY THIS AGAIN. 2436 01:46:06,507 --> 01:46:11,912 HERE WE GO. 2437 01:46:11,912 --> 01:46:12,646 >> OKAY. 2438 01:46:12,646 --> 01:46:17,484 GO FOR IT, JENNIFER. 2439 01:46:17,484 --> 01:46:18,118 >> OKAY. 2440 01:46:18,118 --> 01:46:20,221 CAN YOU SEE MY SCREEN? 2441 01:46:20,221 --> 01:46:21,755 >> YES. 2442 01:46:21,755 --> 01:46:25,259 >> OKAY. 2443 01:46:25,259 --> 01:46:28,429 SO THESE ARE JUST SOME PHOTOS -- 2444 01:46:28,429 --> 01:46:29,129 WAIT. 2445 01:46:29,129 --> 01:46:29,964 OKAY. 2446 01:46:29,964 --> 01:46:32,066 PHOTOS OF THE LAB. 2447 01:46:32,066 --> 01:46:33,801 SO WHEN MY PARENTS CAME TO 2448 01:46:33,801 --> 01:46:37,204 VISIT, I THINK THIS WAS WHEN I 2449 01:46:37,204 --> 01:46:38,739 PRESENTED FOR THE DERMATOLOGY 2450 01:46:38,739 --> 01:46:39,974 BRANCH. 2451 01:46:39,974 --> 01:46:42,810 AND THEN THIS WAS JUST A LAB 2452 01:46:42,810 --> 01:46:44,745 PHOTO AS WELL. 2453 01:46:44,745 --> 01:46:46,513 AND THEN I WON'T READ THE 2454 01:46:46,513 --> 01:46:49,683 MESSAGE ON THE LEFT, BUT AS MANY 2455 01:46:49,683 --> 01:46:53,654 OF YOU SAW IN DR. KRAEMER'S 2456 01:46:53,654 --> 01:46:56,490 SLIDE SHOW, SOME OF THE 2457 01:46:56,490 --> 01:46:58,792 TAKEAWAYS OVER THE YEARS. 2458 01:46:58,792 --> 01:46:59,560 HIGHLIGHT IMPORTANT SUMMARY 2459 01:46:59,560 --> 01:47:02,830 POINTS IN YELLOW. 2460 01:47:02,830 --> 01:47:03,297 [LAUGHTER] 2461 01:47:03,297 --> 01:47:06,467 ON YOUR PRESENTATIONS. 2462 01:47:06,467 --> 01:47:07,768 THE NEXT POINT I'LL MAKE IS WHEN 2463 01:47:07,768 --> 01:47:10,070 YOU ARE IN DR. KRAEMER'S LAB, 2464 01:47:10,070 --> 01:47:12,039 YOU ARE FAMILY. 2465 01:47:12,039 --> 01:47:14,808 AND THEN AS MANY PEOPLE NOTED, 2466 01:47:14,808 --> 01:47:17,077 DORIS IS DR. KRAEMER'S RIGHT 2467 01:47:17,077 --> 01:47:19,280 HAND WOMAN. 2468 01:47:19,280 --> 01:47:21,482 AND SHE WILL BE THERE TO SUPPORT 2469 01:47:21,482 --> 01:47:24,885 AT ALL OF THE CONFERENCES. 2470 01:47:24,885 --> 01:47:27,488 AND THEN WHAT EVERYBODY 2471 01:47:27,488 --> 01:47:29,690 HIGHLIGHTS IS DR. KRAEMER IS A 2472 01:47:29,690 --> 01:47:30,491 PHENOMENAL SCIENTIST AND HE AND 2473 01:47:30,491 --> 01:47:32,660 THE TEAM HAVE MADE A LASTING 2474 01:47:32,660 --> 01:47:34,628 IMPACT ON SCIENCE AND THE LIVES 2475 01:47:34,628 --> 01:47:36,830 OF PATIENTS WITH XP, TTD AND 2476 01:47:36,830 --> 01:47:38,265 OTHER DNA REPAIR RELATED 2477 01:47:38,265 --> 01:47:41,001 DISEASES. 2478 01:47:41,001 --> 01:47:42,303 AND LAST ONE. 2479 01:47:42,303 --> 01:47:44,305 DR. KRAEMER HAS TRIED TO RETIRE 2480 01:47:44,305 --> 01:47:46,273 ONCE, SO DON'T BE SURPRISED IF 2481 01:47:46,273 --> 01:47:49,777 HE COMES BACK. 2482 01:47:49,777 --> 01:47:58,752 [APPLAUSE] 2483 01:47:58,752 --> 01:48:00,721 THESE ARE A FEW VERY SHORT 2484 01:48:00,721 --> 01:48:02,156 VIDEOS, SO IF YOU CAN HEAR THEM, 2485 01:48:02,156 --> 01:48:04,124 THEN LET'S SEE. 2486 01:48:04,124 --> 01:48:05,626 >> HELLO, DR. KRAEMER. 2487 01:48:05,626 --> 01:48:06,527 THIS IS PORSCHE LOVE. 2488 01:48:06,527 --> 01:48:08,495 I WANT TO CONGRATULATE YOU ON 2489 01:48:08,495 --> 01:48:10,364 YOUR RETIREMENT AND THANK YOU 2490 01:48:10,364 --> 01:48:12,099 FOR EVERYTHING YOU'VE DONE FOR 2491 01:48:12,099 --> 01:48:14,435 HIGH SCHOOL, MEDICAL STUDENTS, 2492 01:48:14,435 --> 01:48:16,070 AND RESIDENTS WHO WERE 2493 01:48:16,070 --> 01:48:18,472 INTERESTED IN MEDICAL SCHOOL AND 2494 01:48:18,472 --> 01:48:19,173 DERMATOLOGY. 2495 01:48:19,173 --> 01:48:20,474 WE CERTAINLY APPRECIATE 2496 01:48:20,474 --> 01:48:21,442 EVERYTHING YOU'VE DONE AND I 2497 01:48:21,442 --> 01:48:25,079 HOPE YOU ENJOY YOUR RETIREMENT. 2498 01:48:25,079 --> 01:48:26,480 >> HI, DR. KRAEMER. 2499 01:48:26,480 --> 01:48:28,048 THIS IS SAMUEL. 2500 01:48:28,048 --> 01:48:31,318 I REALLY FEEL BLESSED, HONORED 2501 01:48:31,318 --> 01:48:33,153 AND OPPORTUNED TO HAVE MET 2502 01:48:33,153 --> 01:48:34,488 SOMEONE LIKE YOU WHO WAS MY 2503 01:48:34,488 --> 01:48:35,923 MENTOR. 2504 01:48:35,923 --> 01:48:37,992 THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT, YOUR 2505 01:48:37,992 --> 01:48:40,294 ENCOURAGEMENT AND FOR YOUR 2506 01:48:40,294 --> 01:48:43,263 GUIDANCE AS I MADE MY TRANSITION 2507 01:48:43,263 --> 01:48:44,164 FROM NIH UNTIL NOW. 2508 01:48:44,164 --> 01:48:45,799 I HOPE THAT YOU HAVE A WONDERFUL 2509 01:48:45,799 --> 01:48:46,133 RETIREMENT. 2510 01:48:46,133 --> 01:48:48,535 THANK YOU AND WE'LL KEEP IN 2511 01:48:48,535 --> 01:48:49,003 TOUCH. 2512 01:48:49,003 --> 01:48:50,204 BYE. 2513 01:48:50,204 --> 01:48:52,072 >> HEY, DR. KRAEMER. 2514 01:48:52,072 --> 01:48:53,374 CONGRATULATIONS ON AN AMAZING 2515 01:48:53,374 --> 01:48:53,707 CAREER. 2516 01:48:53,707 --> 01:48:55,843 YOU'VE HAD A GREAT IMPACT NOT 2517 01:48:55,843 --> 01:48:58,245 ONLY ON DERMATOLOGY BUT ALSO THE 2518 01:48:58,245 --> 01:48:59,847 PEOPLE YOU WORK WITH, PEOPLE YOU 2519 01:48:59,847 --> 01:49:00,314 MENTORED. 2520 01:49:00,314 --> 01:49:01,949 WISH YOU ALL THE BEST IN 2521 01:49:01,949 --> 01:49:08,856 RETIREMENT. 2522 01:49:08,856 --> 01:49:10,357 >> TWO MORE. 2523 01:49:10,357 --> 01:49:11,925 >> DR. KRAEMER, CONGRATULATIONS 2524 01:49:11,925 --> 01:49:12,526 ON YOUR RETIREMENT. 2525 01:49:12,526 --> 01:49:14,561 THANK YOU FOR TAKING A CHANCE ON 2526 01:49:14,561 --> 01:49:16,964 US, THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING THISO 2527 01:49:16,964 --> 01:49:18,799 BE BETTER VERSIONS OFF YOURSELF, 2528 01:49:18,799 --> 01:49:20,601 FOR OPENING UP OUR WORLD. 2529 01:49:20,601 --> 01:49:22,269 I HOPE YOUR RETIREMENT IS AS 2530 01:49:22,269 --> 01:49:23,370 BEAUTIFUL AS YOUR CAREER WAS AND 2531 01:49:23,370 --> 01:49:25,039 WE WISH YOU THE BEST. 2532 01:49:25,039 --> 01:49:27,975 >> HI, EVERYONE. 2533 01:49:27,975 --> 01:49:29,443 FIRST OF ALL DR. KRAEMER, 2534 01:49:29,443 --> 01:49:30,511 CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR 2535 01:49:30,511 --> 01:49:32,813 RETIREMENT AND ON AN INCREDIBLE 2536 01:49:32,813 --> 01:49:33,414 CAREER. 2537 01:49:33,414 --> 01:49:36,150 AND I ALSO WANTED TO SAY THANK 2538 01:49:36,150 --> 01:49:37,551 YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL OF THE 2539 01:49:37,551 --> 01:49:39,520 MENTORSHIP AND ALL OF THE 2540 01:49:39,520 --> 01:49:40,287 OPPORTUNITIES YOU'VE GIVEN ME 2541 01:49:40,287 --> 01:49:42,156 WHILE I WAS A STUDENT IN YOUR 2542 01:49:42,156 --> 01:49:43,690 LAB AND AFTERWARDS. 2543 01:49:43,690 --> 01:49:46,260 I MET DR. KRAEMER WHEN I WAS A 2544 01:49:46,260 --> 01:49:48,529 FIRST YEAR MEDICAL STUDENT, AND 2545 01:49:48,529 --> 01:49:50,197 DID MY INTERNSHIP IN THE DNA 2546 01:49:50,197 --> 01:49:52,900 REPAIR LAB AND HONESTLY, THAT 2547 01:49:52,900 --> 01:49:54,802 WAS PROBABLY THE BIGGEST REASON 2548 01:49:54,802 --> 01:49:56,904 I AM IN DERMATOLOGY TODAY, AND I 2549 01:49:56,904 --> 01:49:58,539 HAVE MY DREAM JOB, I'M THE 2550 01:49:58,539 --> 01:49:59,640 DERMATOLOGY RESIDENT AT HENRY 2551 01:49:59,640 --> 01:50:02,276 FORD IN DETROIT, MICHIGAN. 2552 01:50:02,276 --> 01:50:04,144 AND REALLY, DR. KRAEMER, I CAN'T 2553 01:50:04,144 --> 01:50:06,313 THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR ALL OF THE 2554 01:50:06,313 --> 01:50:07,981 MENTORSHIP, ALL OF THE SUPPORT, 2555 01:50:07,981 --> 01:50:09,650 AND I KNOW THERE ARE MANY 2556 01:50:09,650 --> 01:50:11,051 STUDENTS OUT THERE JUST LIKE ME 2557 01:50:11,051 --> 01:50:14,388 WHO FEEL THE SAME WAY, AND THANK 2558 01:50:14,388 --> 01:50:18,092 YOU SO MUCH FOR EVERYTHING, AND 2559 01:50:18,092 --> 01:50:20,394 CONGRATULATIONS, AND I'M REALLY 2560 01:50:20,394 --> 01:50:24,465 EXCITED FOR WHAT'S TO COME. 2561 01:50:24,465 --> 01:50:34,641 >> HI, EVERYONE. 2562 01:50:34,641 --> 01:50:35,476 [VIDEOS REPLAYING] 2563 01:50:35,476 --> 01:50:37,244 >> I DON'T KNOW HOW TO GO -- 2564 01:50:37,244 --> 01:50:38,479 OKAY, AND THEN THESE ARE JUST 2565 01:50:38,479 --> 01:50:44,551 SOME MORE PICTURES FROM THE SIB 2566 01:50:44,551 --> 01:50:45,185 CONFERENCE, AND A PICTURE THAT 2567 01:50:45,185 --> 01:50:47,721 WAS TAKEN ACTUALLY BY ONE OF OUR 2568 01:50:47,721 --> 01:50:49,256 PEDIATRIC PATIENTS DURING THE 2569 01:50:49,256 --> 01:50:52,759 FAMILY WRAP UP AT NIH AND THEN 2570 01:50:52,759 --> 01:50:53,627 MORE PICTURES FROM THE 2571 01:50:53,627 --> 01:50:55,062 CONFERENCE. 2572 01:50:55,062 --> 01:50:56,396 SO THAT IS ALL I HAVE. 2573 01:50:56,396 --> 01:50:58,165 THANK YOU ALL! 2574 01:50:58,165 --> 01:51:05,105 [APPLAUSE] 2575 01:51:05,105 --> 01:51:07,941 >> THANKS, JENNIFER. 2576 01:51:07,941 --> 01:51:09,676 BEFORE WE MOVE TO THE CAKE AND 2577 01:51:09,676 --> 01:51:12,146 TAKE PICTURES, I JUST WANT TO 2578 01:51:12,146 --> 01:51:13,780 SHOUT OUT A THANK YOU TO 2579 01:51:13,780 --> 01:51:15,749 CHARLENE FOR PUTTING TOGETHER 2580 01:51:15,749 --> 01:51:17,151 ALL THESE THINGS AND TIRELESS 2581 01:51:17,151 --> 01:51:20,554 EFFORTS. 2582 01:51:20,554 --> 01:51:20,754 AND -- 2583 01:51:20,754 --> 01:51:21,355 [APPLAUSE] 2584 01:51:21,355 --> 01:51:24,525 >> AND THE LCBG STAFF FOR ALL 2585 01:51:24,525 --> 01:51:27,628 THE BALLOONS AND DECORATIONS, 2586 01:51:27,628 --> 01:51:28,395 COORDINATING ALL THE FOOD, 2587 01:51:28,395 --> 01:51:29,596 WITHOUT THEM THERE WOULDN'T BE A 2588 01:51:29,596 --> 01:51:30,697 PARTY HERE, SO THANK YOU ALL FOR 2589 01:51:30,697 --> 01:51:33,901 THAT. 2590 01:51:33,901 --> 01:51:44,077 [APPLAUSE] 2591 01:51:45,946 --> 01:51:56,123 >> [INAUDIBLE]