Annual Center Symposia and Retreat
The UPenn Digestive and Liver Center is pleased to share that registration is OPEN for our 25th annual symposium: "Fibrosis and Wound Healing Across the Spectrum of Digestive and Liver Diseases” held on Wednesday, November 12th, at the University of Pennsylvania’s BRB Gaulton Auditorium.
Important notes:
- Itinerary and registration link (REGISTER NOW!) are included in the attached poster
- Registration deadline: October 29, 2025
- Deadline to submit an abstract: October 29, 2025: submit your abstract through the submission field after selecting “YES” on the Mach Form. Abstracts may also be submitted via email attachment to Lillian Chau: Lillian.Chau@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Any questions, please contact Lillian Chau at: Lillian.Chau@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Upcoming Events
24th Annual Symposium - Thursday, October 10, 2024 - "What Bugs You? New Insights Into Infectious Pathogens in Digestive Disease"
Into the wild: advances in mouse models integrating the natural environment
2023 Joint Microbiome Symposium
22nd Annual Retreat - 2022 "High Dimensional Analytics in Digestive and Liver Disease: From Single Cell to the Whole Human"
21st Annual Retreat - 2021 "Liver Disease across the Age Spectrum: Studies of Genetics and the Environment"
20th Annual Retreat – 2020 “Metabolic Control of GI Biology”
19th Annual Retreat – 2019 "Technological Advances in the Use of Human Digestive Tissues for Basic Science Research”
DDRC Symposium – 2018 "The Gut Microbiome as a Paradigm for the Opportunities and Challenges of Human Subject Research"
18th Annual Retreat – 2017 "Riding the innovation wave in preclinical models and therapies"
17th Annual Retreat – 2016 "3D organoids in the GI tract, liver and pancreas"
16th Annual Retreat – 2015 "Innovative perspectives on pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer"
15th Annual Retreat – 2014 "Liver biology and translational therapeutics"
14th Annual Retreat – 2013 "The intestinal stem cell: from the niche to the bedside"
13th Annual Retreat – 2012 "IBD, Functional Genomics and the Intestinal Mucousal Interface"
12th Annual Retreat – 2011 "Embryology to regenerative medicine in digestive and liver diseases"
11th Annual Retreat – 2010 "The biology of pancreatic development, regeneration & malignancy"
10th Annual Retreat – 2009 "Intestinal microbia in health & diseases"
9th Annual Retreat – 2008 "Stem cells in development, inflammation & cancer"
8th Annual Retreat – 2007 "Gut-brain-adipose interplay in health & disease"
7th Annual Retreat – 2006 "Advances in GI cancers: animal models to proteomics"
6th Annual Retreat – 2005 "Stem cells in development and diseases"
5th Annual Retreat – 2004 "The present & future of enteric pathogenesis & the GI tract"
4th Annual Retreat – 2003 "Endoderm-derived organs in GI liver development, differentiation & disease"
3rd Annual Retreat – 2002 "Regulation of lymphocyte biology in health & disease"
2nd Annual Retreat – 2001 "Molecular basis for neoplasia in the digestive tract"
1st Annual Retreat – 2000 "Molecular basis to hepatic gene regulation: From bench to bedside"