UCSF Diabetes Center 20th Anniversary Symposium

Decoding Diabetes: A Century of Progress, A Future of Innovation

Thursday, November 3, 2022
9:00 a.m. Pacific time

Join us to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the UCSF Diabetes Center. Hear from our distinguished researchers who will share updates on their groundbreaking efforts to prevent and treat diabetes.

UCSF Parnassus Campus
School of Nursing, N-225
2 Koret Way, San Francisco

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Symposium Agenda

Registration

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Featuring:
Daniel H. Lowenstein, MD
Mark S. Anderson, MD, PhD

Anna L. Gloyn, DPhil
Talk Title: Unravelling Mechanisms for Beta Cell Dysfunction at Type 2 Diabetes GWAS Loci

Julie B. Sneddon, PhD
Talk Title: Flame of Hope: A Stem Cell Therapy for Diabetes

 

Coffee Break

Mark S. Anderson, MD, PhD
Talk Title: Using Outliers to Unravel Autoimmunity

Zoe Quandt, MD
Talk Title: Cancer Immunotherapy-Induced Diabetes: A New Perspective on Islet Autoimmunity

Martin Valdearcos, PhD
Talk Title: Microglia: Expanding Roles for the Guardians of the Brain

Lunch is served

Lisa R. Beutler, MD, PhD

Talk Title: Obesity-Mediated Dysfunction of Gut-Brain Dynamics

Bruce Spiegelman, PhD
Talk Title: The PGC1a/Irisin Pathway: Linking Muscle Metabolism with Cognition and Neurodegeneration

Michael German, MD
Talk Title: Key Discoveries: 100 Years of Insulin

Kevan Herold, PhD

Talk Title: Beta Cells and Immune Cells: Breaking the Cycle to Prevent Type 1 Diabetes

Dean Schillinger, MD

Talk Title: Type 2 Diabetes and Public Health: What UCSF Researchers Are Discovering

Coffee Break

Jeffrey A. Bluestone, PhD
Talk Title: UCSF Diabetes Center: Past, Present, and Future

Closing Remarks

Symposium Concludes

Featuring

Mark Anderson, MD, PhD

Robert B. Friend and Michelle M. Friend Professor of Diabetes Research
Director, UCSF Diabetes Center

Lisa Beutler, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology)
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Jeffrey Bluestone, PhD

Professor Emeritus of Metabolism and Endocrinology, UCSF Diabetes Center
CEO and President, Sonoma Biotherapeutics

Michael German, MD

Justine K. Schreyer Professor of Diabetes Research
Professor and Clinical Director, UCSF Diabetes Center

Anna Gloyn, DPhil

Professor of Pediatrics (Endocrinology) and, by courtesy, of Genetics
Stanford University

Kevan Herold, MD

C.N.H. Long Professor of Immunobiology and of Medicine (Endocrinology)
Yale School of Medicine
Dan Lowenstein, MD

Daniel Lowenstein, MD

Moderator
UCSF Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost
Dr. Robert B. and Mrs. Ellinor Aird Professor of Neurology

Zoe Quandt, MD

Assistant Professor, UCSF Department of Medicine
Dean Schillinger, MD

Dean Schillinger, MD

Director, UCSF Health Communications Research Program
Co-Director, NIDDK DREAMS Center for Type 2 Diabetes Translational Research

Julie Sneddon, PhD

Assistant Professor, UCSF Diabetes Center, UCSF Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research, and UCSF Department of Cell and Tissue Biology

Bruce Spiegelman, PhD

Stanley J. Korsmeyer Professor of Cell Biology and Medicine,
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Professor of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School
Martin Valdearcos Contreras, PhD

Martin Valdearcos, PhD

Assistant Adjunct Professor, UCSF Diabetes Center