Agenda
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Luncheon and Poster Session Lobby Biomedical Research Building II/III |
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM
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Welcome Opening Remarks -
Arthur H. Rubenstein, MBBCh |
2:15 PM - 3:00 PM | Kendra Bence, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Neuroscience University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine "Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase Control of Obesity and Glucose Homeostasis: is it all in your head?" |
3:00 PM - 3:45 PM | Morris J. Birnbaum, M.D., Ph.D. Investigator, HHMI, Professor, Medicine and Cell and Developmental Biology Associate Director, Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism Type 2 Diabetes Unit University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine "New Approaches to Old Problems in Insulin Action and Resistance" |
3:45 PM | IDOM Outstanding Poster Award Presentation *General Poster *Patient-Oriented Research Poster |
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Kroc Lecturer: Kenneth S. Polonsky, M.D., Adolphus Busch Professor of Medicine Chairman, Department of Medicine Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis "Genetic Mechanisms of Beta Cell Dysfunction in Diabetes" |
Supported by: Penn Diabetes and Endocrinology Research Center (NIH DK 19525), The Kroc Foundation and Takeda Pharmaceuticals North America, Inc.
For updates and Information please contact Betsy Straw at (215) 898-4365 or neavesst@mail.med.upenn.edu.