FDA CERSI Lecture Series

The CERSI Lecture series features presentations by investigators from all four CERSI academic institutions on current research in regulatory science. Below are the lectures presented by UCSF or Stanford faculty. For a complete listing of all CERSI Lectures, please visit the FDA’s CERSI Lecture Series website.

Date	Speaker	Talk Title
5/8/25	Russ Altman, MD, MPH Stanford University	Large Language Models to Support Bioequivalence Evaluation More information coming soon
1/23/24	Janice B. Schwartz, MD University of California, San Francisco	Voices of Diversity: Older Adults with Multiple Chronic Conditions and Their Perspectives on Clinical Trials (Recording not available)
7/25/23	Christopher Almond, MD, MPH Stanford University	Pediatric Medical Devices - Challenges and Opportunities
3/8/22	Esteban Burchard, MD, MPH University of California, San Francisco	Race & Genetic Ancestry in Medicine. A Time for Reckoning Racism
3/10/21	Atul Butte, MD, PhD University of California, San Francisco	Precisely practicing medicine for COVID, from a half million tested patients and a trillion points of data
6/2/20	Matthew Porteus, MD, PhD Stanford University	Streamlining Genetic Safety Analysis for Ex Vivo Genome Edited Cell Therapies: Creating Safe and Efficacious Cellular Drugs using Genome Editing
10/2/19	Leslie Wilson, PhD University of California, San Francisco	Advances in Patient Preference Information to Enhance Benefit-Risk Assessment: Learning from Case Studies
11/5/18	Joseph DeRisi, PhD University of California, San Francisco	Chan-Zuckerberg Biohub (Recording not available)
9/12/17	Laura Esserman, MD, MBA University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine	OneSource Checklists: Tools for Integrating Care and Research and Catalyzing a Sea Change in the Practice of Medicine
5/11/17	Steven Goodman, MD, MHS, PhD Stanford University	Reproducibility in Medicine and Science
12/8/16	Joseph C. Wu, MD, PhD Stanford School of Medicine	Patient-Specific Stem Cells for Precision Medicine
11/30/16	Christopher (Chris) Ré, PhD Stanford University	DeepDive: A Data System for Macroscopic Science
10/26/16	Stephen Quake, PhD Stanford University	A Molecular Stethoscope