Chao Lectureship: Past Speakers Home Chao Lectureship: Past Speakers About the Allen and Lee-Hwa Chao Lectureship in Cancer Research in Honor of H. H. Chao The Allen and Lee-Hwa Chao Lectureship in Cancer Research was established in 1999 with a gift from Allen Chao and his wife Lee-Hwa Chao. The Chao family has been generous contributors to UC Irvine and the Cancer Center over the years, with three generations of Chaos giving nearly $30 million to the campus. The cancer center is named in the family's honor. The lecture series is named in honor of the Chao family patriarch, the late H. H. Chao and provides a forum to share and discuss topics related to cancer research, prevention and treatment. Each year the lectureship hosts an internationally renowned leader in cancer research, who delivers a technical colloquium in addition to a public lecture. Both lectures are free and open to the public. Year Chao Lecturer Institution 1999 Robert Weinberg, PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2000 Craig V. Jordan, PhD, DSC Northwestern University Medical School 2001 Janet Rowley, MD The University of Chicago 2002 Michael E. Phelps, MD University of California, Los Angeles 2003 Andrew C. Von Eschenbach, MD National Cancer Institute 2004 Mina J. Bissell, PhD Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 2005 Peter M. Howley, PhD Harvard Medical School 2006 Brian Druker, MD Oregon Health and Science University 2007 Irving L. Weissman, MD Stanford Comprehensive Cancer Center 2008 Alfred Knudson, MD, PhD Fox Chase Cancer Center 2009 Raymond N. DuBois, MD, PhD The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center 2010 Harald zur Hausen, MD Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (German Cancer Research Center) 2011 Daniel V. Von Hoff, MD, FACP Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) 2012 Frank McCormick, PhD, FRS UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center 2013 Ronald M. Evans, PhD The Salk Institute 2015 David Baltimore, PhD California Institute of Technology 2016 Atul Butte, MD, PhD University of California, San Francisco 2018 Douglas Lowy, MD National Cancer Institute/National Institute of Health 2019 Owen Witte, MD UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center 2020 Tyler Jacks, PhD Massachussetts Institutue of Technology 2021 Ronald A. DePinho, MD The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center 2022 Karen E. Knudsen, MBA, PhD American Cancer Society (ACS) 2023 George Q. Daley, MD, PhD Harvard Medical School