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2014 Kroc Lecture Agenda

Agenda

 

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Luncheon and Poster Session
Lobby, Smilow Center for Translational Research

2:00 - 2:15 PM

 


Welcome
Mitchell A. Lazar, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism
Sylvan H. Eisman Professor of Medicine

Opening Remarks
J. Larry Jameson, M.D., Ph.D.

Dean, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

2:15 - 2:45 PM Benjamin F. Voight, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Genetics
“Dissecting Cardiometabolic Disease via Mendelian Randomization”
2:45 - 3:00 PM Rexford S. Ahima, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine
“Translating Obesity and Metabolic Research”
3:00 - 3:30 PM Tracy L. Bale, Ph.D.
Professor of Neuroscience
“Placental Metabolic Signaling Important in Neurodevelopment”
3:30 - 3:45 PM BREAK
3:45 - 4:00 PM IDOM Outstanding Research Project Awards Presentation
*Basic Science
*Patient-Oriented Research
Panel of Guest Judges:

Andy Johnson, Ph.D., Editor, Cell Metabolism

Paula A. Kiberstis, Ph.D., Senior Genetics Editor, Science

Randy Levinson, Ph.D., Senior Editor, Nature Medicine

Mark A. Magnuson, M.D., Director, Vanderbilt Center for Stem Cell Biology; Louise B. McGavock Chair and Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University

Ushma S. Neill, Ph.D., Editor at Large, Journal of Clinical Investigation

Alan R. Saltiel, Ph.D., Director, Life Sciences Institute; Professor of Internal Medicine and Physiology, University of Michigan

Iphigenia Effie Tzameli, Ph.D., Editor, Trends in Endocrinology and
Metabolism

4:00 - 5:00 PM

 

Kroc Lecture: Alan R. Saltiel, Ph.D., Director, Life Sciences Institute; Professor of Internal Medicine and Physiology, University of Michigan

“Inflammatory Links between Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes”

 

Supported by: Penn Diabetes Research Center (NIH DK 19525), and The Kroc Foundation.

For updates and Information please contact Vesselina Panteva at (215) 898-0198 or panteva@mail.med.upenn.edu