Speakers

Chad Mirkin, PhD, Northwestern University

Director, International Institute for Nanotechnology
George B. Rathmann Prof. of Chemistry
Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Professor of Materials Science & Engineering
Professor of Medicine
Northwestern University
Member, National Academy of Science (NAS); Medicine (NAM); Engineering (NAE) and Inventors (NAI)
Core Expertise: Bioengineering

Celeste Simon, PhD, University of Pennsylvania

Arthur H. Rubenstein, MBBCh Professor
Scientific Director, Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute
Associate Director, Shared Resources, Abramson Cancer Center
Department: Cell and Developmental Biology
Member, National Academy of Science (NAS); National Academy of Medicine (NAM); Scientific Director, Abramson Family Cancer Institute
Core Expertise: Tumor Metabolism

Darrel Irvine, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Underwood-Prescott Professor
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Investigator (HHMI)
Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research
Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard
Howard Hughes Medical Investigator (HHMI)
Core Expertise: Cancer Immunotherapy, Vaccine

David Mangelsdorf, PhD, UT Southwestern Medical Center

Professor & Chair
Alfred G. Gilman Distinguished Chair in Pharmacology; Raymond and Ellen Willie Distinguished Chair in Molecular Neuropharmacology in Honor of Harold B. Crasilneck, Ph.D.
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Investigator (HHMI)
Member, National Academy of Science (NAS)
Core Expertise: Diabetes and Metabolism

Ronald DePinho, MD, PhD, MD Anderson Cancer Center

Professor, Department of Cancer Biology, Division of Basic Science Research
Harry Graves Burkhart III Distinguished University Chair in Cancer Biology
Past President, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Member, National Academy of Science (NAS)
Core Expertise: Cancer, Aging, Neurodegenerative Disease

Chi Van Dang, PhD, Johns Hopkins University

Scientific Director of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research and Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Cancer Medicine
Johns Hopkins University
Member, National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
Core Expertise: Circadian Rhythm and Metabolism

Ali Shilatifard, PhD, Northwestern University

Chair, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Director, Simpson Querrey Institute for Epigenetics
Robert Francis Furchgott Professor Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics and Pediatrics
Northwestern University
Core Expertise: Epigenetics and Cancer

Milan Mrksich, PhD, Northwestern University

Vice President for Research
Henry Wade Rogers Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Northwestern University
Core Expertise: Bioengineering

Jeremy Reiter, University of California San Francisco

Chair, Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry
Core Expertise: Obesity, Stem Cell and Ciliopathies

Natalie Artzi, PhD, Harvard Medical School

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Principal Research Scientist at the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science at MIT
Associate Faculty of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering
Associate Member of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT
Core Expertise: Microenvironment and Smart Biomaterials

Napoleone Ferrara, University of California San Diego

Distinguished Professor of Pathology
Adjunct Professor of Ophthalmology and Pharmacology.
Hildyard Endowed Chair in Eye Disease
University of California San Diego
Member, National Academy of Science (NAS); National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
Core Expertise: Angiogenesis

Hugo Bellen, DVM. Ph.D, Baylor College of Medicine

Distinguished Service Professor
March of Dimes Chair in Developmental Biology
Chair in Neurogenetics
Professor
Baylor College of Medicine
Member, National Academy of Science (NAS)
Core Expertise: Mitochondria, Aging and Neurodegeneration

Dafna Bar-Sagi, PhD, NYU Langone Health

Executive Vice President and Vice Dean for Science and Chief Scientific Officer
Saul J. Farber Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Member, National Academy of Science (NAS)
Core Expertise: Macropinocytosis, Immunology and Cancer

Paul McLean, University of Colorado

Director of the Energy Metabolism Program
Professor, Medicine-Endocrinology/Metabolism/Diabetes
University of Colorado
Director of the Energy Metabolism Program
Core Expertise: Metabolism, Obesity and Diabetes

Arul Chinnaiyan, PhD, University of Michigan

Hicks Endowed Professor of Pathology
Professor of Pathology and Urology
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Investigator (HHMI)
Member, National Academy of Science (NAS)
Core Expertise: Functional genomic, proteomic and bioinformatics and discover clinical biomarkers

E. Dale Abel, MD, University of California Los Angeles

Chair, Department of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Executive Medical Director of the UCLA Health System’s Department of Medicine
University of California Los Angeles
Member, National Academy of Science (NAS), National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
Core Expertise: Mitochondrial Biology in Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease

Carl June, PhD, University of Pennsylvania

Richard W. Vague Professor in Immunotherapy
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Director of the Center for Cellular Immunotherapies at the Perelman School of Medicine Director of the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy at the University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania. https://www.med.upenn.edu/cci/junelab/
Member, National Academy of Science (NAS), National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
Core Expertise: Immunotherapy, CAR-T Cells

Shingo Kajimura, PhD, Harvard Medical School

Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Investigator, Hughes Medical Investigator (HHMI).
Core Expertise: Adipogenesis and Energy Metabolism

Erica Golemis, PhD, Fox Chase Cancer Center

Professor, Molecular Therapeutics
Deputy Chief Science Officer William Wikoff Smith Chair in Cancer Research
Fox Chase Cancer Center https://www.foxchase.org/about-us/history/women-science/erica-golemis
Core Expertise: Cilia and Tumor Microenvironment

Carol A. Barnes, PhD, University of Arizona

Regents' Professor of Psychology
Evelyn F. McKnight Chair for Learning and Memory in Aging
Director of the Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute
University of Arizona
Member, National Academy of Science (NAS)
Core Expertise: Aging, Cognitive Impairment

Vishwa Deep Dixit, DVM, PhD, Yale University

Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Pathology, Immunobiology and of Comparative Medicine
Director, Yale Center for Research on Aging (Y-Age)
Yale School of Medicine

Ronald M. Evans, PhD, Salk Institute

Professor and Head of the Salk’s Gene Expression Laboratory
March of Dimes Chair in Molecular and Developmental Biology
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Member, National Academy of Science (NAS)
Core Expertise: Diabetes, Obesity and Cancer