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The Inaugural Dean’s Distinguished Lecture, College of Computing, Data Science and Society, University of California, Berkeley, California. February 4 2025 Rethinking Clark Kerr: The Uses of the University in the Age of Generative AI By Gerald Chan In March of … Continue reading →

Commencement address given at the University of California Berkeley, School of Public Health, Berkeley, California, May 13, 2024 The Future of Healthcare By Gerald Chan From a training in science when I was young, my career meandered to my eventually … Continue reading →

Boston Globe op-ed article on reforming middle school education, January 31 2024 By Gerald Chan and Steve Zrike A new report from the Rennie Center for Education Research & Policy describes the condition of education in Massachusetts and highlights the … Continue reading →

Speech given at the inauguration of the MIT Morningside Academy for Design, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 18 2022 Design as the API between Technology and Humanity By Gerald Chan To some of my friends who learned of … Continue reading →

Remarks at the press conference announcing Morningside Foundation’s gift to University of Massachusetts Medical School, Boston, September 7, 2021 A Gift to University of Massachusetts, a Land-Grant University By Gerald Chan I have been asked two questions to which I … Continue reading →

Speech given at the celebration of the naming gift to the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, September 7th 2021 A Tribute to My Parents By Gerald Chan It gives me great pleasure in representing the Morningside Foundation … Continue reading →

Speech for the inauguration of the Morningside Center for Innovative and Affordable Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, November 14 2019 The Purpose and Repurposing of Drugs By Gerald Chan It gives me great pleasure to represent the Morningside Foundation to mark … Continue reading →

Remarks at the presentations of the President’s Medal, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, June 26 2019 By Gerald Chan Over the years, I have been fortunate to be honored by various organizations. None has given me more … Continue reading →

The Carnegie Lecture, University of Glasgow, Scotland. March 6 2019 On Translational Science — The Alchemy of Turning Science into Medicine By Gerald Chan You can tell from my bio that I am a man with a checkered past. A … Continue reading →

Speech given to the Harvard Asian American Alumni Alliance Summit, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 26 2018 Community or Lifestyle Enclave By Gerald Chan I had understood that the organizers of this conference wanted me to say something about my … Continue reading →