Venki Ramakrishnan, Nobel laureate and author of Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality, joins in a conversation about his fascinating work. In his groundbreaking book, Ramakrishnan takes us to the frontiers of biology and human longevity, exploring possibilities for extending life and asking, must we be mortal? Venki is a research leader at the renowned Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England. In 2009, he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome,” the machinery that makes protein in cells, and which is a major target of many antibiotics. Ramakrishnan speaks with David Jeruzalmi, professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at The City College of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center, in the fourth annual event in this series featuring Nobel laureates in science.
Presented with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Center for Humanities and History of Modern Biology, BGI Nobel Laureate Archives.
