His Holiness participated in a panel discussion on Healing and Wisdom: Balancing Body and Mind organized by the Human Values Institute. In a packed hall seating over 1500 people, the program brought together two Nobel Laureates, His Holiness and Dr. Susumu Tonegawa of MIT.

In his remarks, His Holiness said that these kinds of meetings served two purposes: the first was to expand our knowledge and the second was to highlight to the general public the importance of our inner values backed by the latest scientific evidence.

Dr. Susumu Tonegawa presented his remarks on his research on gene manipulation to unravel the molecular, cellular and neural circuit mechanisms that underlie learning and memory.