2025 Spring Symposium & Kroc Lecture

Overview

The 2025 Penn Diabetes Spring Symposium & Kroc Lecture will be in person!

We will have live and in person poster sessions, and we would love a great showing. There will be well known poster judges and poster prizes.

Panel of Guest Judges

• E. Dale Abel, M.D., Ph.D., David Geffen School of Medicine and UCLA Health
• Morris J. Birnbaum, M.D., Ph.D., Pyrus Partners, LLC and Emeritus Professor, University of Pennsylvania
• Krista Bledsoe, Ph.D., Scientific Editor, Molecular Cell
• Catherine Charneski, Ph.D., Senior Editor, Science Translational Medicine
• Samantha Cyrill, Ph.D., Assistant Editor, Genes & Development
• Allyson Evans, Ph.D., Editor in Chief, Cell Metabolism;
• Martin Myers, M.D., Ph.D., Michigan Diabetes Research Center & Caswell Diabetes Institute
  
• Ushma S. Neil, Ph.D., Vice President, Scientific Education & Training Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
• Lori Sussel, Ph.D., University of Colorado Denver Anschultz Medical Campus
  
• Karen Teff, Ph.D., Former NIDDK Program Director

Kroc Lecture

The day will culminate with the Kroc Lecture which will be delivered by E. Dale Abel, M.D., Ph.D.,
William S. Adams Distinguished Professor of Medicine
Chair and Executive Medical Director, Department of Medicine
David Geffen School of Medicine and UCLA Health

Topic: "Mitochondrial Mechanisms for Cardiometabolic Disease"

Time: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm