Venue

The symposium will be held at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.

Venue address:
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Robert H. Lurie Medical Research Center
303 E. Superior Street
Chicago
Illinois 60611
USA

The Robert H. Lurie Medical Research Center is a 12-story biomedical research building in the heart of Chicago’s Streeterville neighborhood, part of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine’s academic medical campus. The building features well-equipped conference space in its ground level atrium, including the 250-seat John Hughes Auditorium, and is seamlessly connected to the new Simpson Querrey Biomedical Research Center. The campus includes three nationally recognized honor roll hospitals: Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and Shirley Ryan AbilityLab.

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, founded in 1859, has built a national reputation for excellence through a strong history of collaborative, interdisciplinary medical education and research. The school’s leading-edge scientific initiatives, superb clinical affiliates, global outlook and innovative curriculum attract more than 4,000 talented individuals to its faculty. Feinberg annually ranks among the nation’s best American medical schools for research by US News & World Report, and is consistently among the National Institutes for Health’s top funded institutions for biomedical research.

Northwestern’s Chicago campus map can be found here.

Restaurants and hotels are within easy walking distance of campus, as is shopping on Chicago’s Michigan Avenue, also known as the “Magnificent Mile.”