The Fenn Lecture is presented each fall and honors VCU’s only Nobel Prize winner, Dr. John B. Fenn, who joined the faculty in 1994 and received the Nobel Prize in 2002 for the development of electrospray ionization. The invention revolutionized the study of large biomolecules including proteins and DNA. Learn more about Dr. John B. Fenn.

This year's speaker, John R. Yates III, will present, "How a single mutation in CFTR causes the systemic disease cystic fibrosis: interactions, PTMs, and structure"