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Unlocking the Secrets of Science, |
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| 8:00 a.m. | Registration and Continental Breakfast |
| 8:45 a.m. | Welcome and Introduction — Griffin Rodgers, M.D., M.A.C.P., Director, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) |
| 9:00 a.m. | Session 1: Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases Chair: Former NIDDK Director Phillip Gorden, M.D, Clinical Endocrinology Branch, NIDDK Insulin Resistance and Metabolic Disease: An Integrative Systems Biology Approach — C. Ronald Kahn, M.D. Our Human Gut Microbiome: Dining in with Trillions of Fascinating Friends — Jeffrey Gordon, M.D. The Origin of Fibroblasts During Tissue Fibrogenesis — Eric Neilson, M.D. |
| 10:30 a.m. | Break |
| 11:00 a.m. | Session 2: Nutrition, Hematology, and Urology Chair: Former NIDDK Director Lester Salans, M.D., Director, Forest Laboratories, Inc., Clinical Professor, Mount Sinai Medical School The New Biology of Obesity — Jeffrey Friedman, M.D. New Roles for the Classical Transferrin Receptor — Nancy Andrews, M.D. Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia: It’s Not as Simple as We Thought — John McConnell, M.D. |
| 12:30 p.m. | Lunch Buffet (in foyer) POSTER SESSION (Main Floor Atrium) |
| 2:00 p.m. | Session 3: Endocrinology, Education, Outreach, and Intramural Chair: Former NIDDK Director Allen Spiegel, M.D., Dean, Albert Einstein College of Medicine Resistance to Action: Hormonal and Decanal — Jeffrey Flier, M.D. Transforming Science into Educational Programs: NIDDK and 60 Years of Outreach — James R. Gavin, III, M.D. Chromatin Boundaries, Insulators, and the Epigenetic Regulation of Gene Expression — Gary Felsenfeld, Ph.D. |
| 3:30 p.m. | Presentation of NIDDK Early Career Investigator/Scholar Awards Griffin Rodgers, M.D., M.A.C.P., NIDDK Director |
| 4:00 p.m. | Adjournment |
