Celebrating 25 Years of Hotamışlıgil Lab

25TH ANNIVERSARY OF HOTAMIŞLIGİL LAB

In the earliest days of my career, my close friend and mentor, Dr. Armen H. Tashjian, Jr., instilled in me that excellent science is paramount for advancement. In order to tackle the greatest public health problems, we need to start with basic science; we need to understand the mechanisms, to model them, and to translate them, in order to eventually resolve them. It is this model that has provided the foundation for my work from the beginning: to understand, model, and translate scientific problems to make meaningful connections and build scientific knowledge and community, and dream solutions to improve the well-being of humans. This idea of developing deep scientific understanding and community building has driven my efforts from the beginning and is what I hope to inspire in the members of my lab and in our Center.

The last 25 years have been full of amazing and life- changing experiences, discoveries, challenges, failures, and some advancement toward our goals. The most gratifying aspect of this quarter century, however, has been the privilege of working together with a large group of young scientists, participating in their training and advancement, and witnessing their tremendous contributions to the science of metabolism and immunometabolism in many parts of the world. In science, we celebrate diversity and inclusion and we unite around a common goal to solve the most intractable problems and make a positive contribution to human experience. This year especially brought to us all a uniquely challenging and demanding set of circumstances and an enormous level of stress and emotional turmoil. However, our lab, members of our Center, the scientific community, and the world are once again united and have worked diligently to support one another for the benefit of global health. I am grateful for the last two and a half decades and for the support and engagement of the community of brilliant scientific minds that we have built and look forward to the promise of what we will create that advances our progress, with the hope of welcoming healthy days in the very near future.

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