PAS Public Lecture: Prof. Russell Foster, Oxford University

Event Date

15 April 2026

Event Location

AOA Conference Room, AOA Building, National University of Samoa

Event Tags

Public Lecture

PAS Public Lecture: Prof. Russell Foster, Oxford University


Circadian Rhythms & Sleep: Mechanisms, Importance & New Therapeutics



Professor Russell Foster is the Head of Oxford’s Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology, the founder and Director of the Sleep and Circadian Research Institute and is a Fellow of Brasenose College Oxford. His research addresses how circadian rhythms and sleep are generated and regulated and what happens when these systems fail as a result of societal pressures, age and disease.



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