Comprises two VHS tapes 'A Retirement Symposium for Professor Sir David Weatherall Regius Professor of Medicine, Oxford. John Radcliffe Hospital Oxford, UK 1st September 2000.'

Reel 1:

Morning session

Chair: Professor George Radda, Director, Medical Research Council

"The Cholesterol Feedback Story: Implications for Biology and Medicine" Dr. Joseph Goldstein, Regental Professor and Chairman, Department of Molecular Genetics, Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas.

"The Nitric Oxide Riddle" Dr. Max Perutz, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

"Alpha Thalassaemia: The First Forty Years" Professor Doug Higgs, MRC Molecular Haematology Unit, Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford.

"The Control of Globin Gene Switching" Dr. George Stamatoyannopoulos, Head, Division of Medical Genetics, University of Washington.

Reel 2:

Afternoon session

Chair: Professor Peter Morris, Head of Nuffield Department of Surgery, Oxdford

"Dice, Dominoes and Differentiation" Dr. Michael Dexter, Director, The Wellcome Trust.

"Genetics and Computing: The Forces Shaping the Evolution of Systems Biology and Molecular Medicine" Dr George Poste, C.E.O. Health Technology Networks.

"Tropical Medicine in Oxford: Our Debt to David Weatherall" Professor David Warrell, Head, Division of Tropical Medicine, Oxford.

"Wormwood, a Distemper of Asses, Breakbone Fever, Smoke and the Captain" Professor Nick White, Director, The Wellcome Trust Southeast Asian Tropical Medicine Research Units.