Ruth E. Gimeno, PhD Vice President, Diabetes Research and Clinical Investigation Lilly Research Laboratories, Eli Lilly and Company Career Focus: Encourage and support research in the field of diabetes, to rapidly diffuse acquired knowledge and to facilitate its application.
Yvette R. Seger, PhD Director of Science Policy FASEB (Foundation of American Societies of Experimental Biology) Career Focus: Science Policy affecting biomedical researchers and their work.
Danielle Berlin (Vicki Bautch Lab) AND Natalie Nielsen (Kathleen Caron Lab)
Carlos Patino Descovich (Scott Williams Lab) AND John Pawlak (Kathleen Caron Lab)
David G. Harrison, MD, FACC, FAHA | Gottschalk Lecturer Betty and Jack Bailey Chair in Cardiology | Director, Division of Clinical Pharmacology Vanderbilt University Medical Center Research Focus: Understanding how inflammation and the adaptive immune response contributes to hypertension.
Rejji Kuruvilla, PhD William D. Gill Professor John’s Hopkins University Research Focus: Development and functions of the sympathetic nervous system.
Karina Kinghorn (Vicki Bautch Lab) AND Amanda Smith (Larry Ostrowski Lab)
Maxence Nachury, PhD Associate Professor, Ophthalmology University of California San Francisco Research Focus: Primary cilium, a surface-exposed organelle required for vision, olfaction and developmental signaling and whose dysfunction leads to obesity, skeletal malformations and kidney cysts.
Tomas Kircchausen, PhD Springer Family Chair | Senior Investigator, Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine (BCH) Harvard University Medical School Research Focus: Molecular mechanisms that underlie the cells sorting machineries responsible for receptor-mediated endocytosis and for secretion, and how they are highjacked by toxins, viruses and bacterial pathogens to enter cells. We also study how … Read more
Benjamin L. Prosser, PhD Assistant Professor of Physiology The Perelman School, University of Pennsylvania Research Focus: How cell stress and strain regulate intracellular calcium homeostasis and signaling through reactive oxygen species (ROS).