ÜLKER CENTER INVITED LECTURES

Gökhan S. Hotamışlıgil, MD, PhD

May 2022

Lecturer, 58th International Diabetes Congress. National Diabetes Congress. Virtual

Keynote Lecturer, Sabri Ülker Nutrition for Healthcare Professional Conference. Sabri Ülker Food Research Foundation. Istanbul, Turkey

June 2022

Lecturer, ADA Scientific Sessions. American Diabetes Association. Virtual

Lecturer, Gordon Research Conference on Immunometabolism in Health & Disease. Smithfield, RI

October 2022

Speaker, Academic Year Opening. Izmir Institute of Technology. Virtual

Lecturer, Amgen CMD Scientific Lecture Series.

Virtual

Keynote Speaker, 26th National Pediatric Endocrinology & Diabetes Congress. Virtual

Opening Keynote Speaker, Istanbul Tech Week.

Virtual

November 2022

Speaker, Diabetes Day. Karolinska Institutet.

Virtual

Speaker, November Diabetes Awareness Month. Case Western Reserve University Center for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism. Virtual

Lecturer, Nutrition Seminar. Harvard University. Boston, MA

December 2022

Keynote Speaker, Innovative Approaches in Drug Development. Hacettepe University. Virtual

Mehmet Furkan Burak, MD

February 2022

Plenary speaker, International Endocrinology Congress. Buenos Aires, Argentina

May 2022

Plenary Speaker, 43rd Annual Conference of Turkish Endocrinology and Metabolism Association. Antalya, Turkey

Invited Panel Member and Grant Reviewer. UK Asthma and Lung. London, United Kingdom

June 2022

Grand Round Speaker, Harvard Medical School. Boston, MA

August 2022

NIH p31 NORCH Grant Winner

Brigham & Women’s Hospital Institutional Nominee for the Pathway Award of American Diabetes Association

September 2022

Tersus Life Sciences Clinical Trial Grant ($2.5M) Winner

November 2022

Invited Membership, Massachusetts Health Drug Utilization Board, Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Boston, MA

Plenary Speaker, 3rd International Protein Calorie Restriction Workshop. Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. Boston, MA

Eva Tsaousidou, PhD

September 2022

Invited Speaker, Immunometabolism at the Crossroads of Obesity and Cancer. Keystone Symposia Molecular on Molecular and Cellular Biology. Keystone, CO

Kacey Prentice, PhD

June 2022

Speaker, ADA Scientific Sessions. American Diabetes Association. Virtual

December 2022

Global Recipient of One of Two Career Development Awards from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF)

Jillian Riveros, B.A.

July 2022

Invited Speaker, Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Excellence Colleges’ Symposium “Elevating Student Voices”. Vassar College. Poughkeepsie, NY

We thoroughly review the results of many repeated experiments and view them through a critical lens. Gathering data then becomes a collaborative process where project teams intensely focus on questions which arise, and then attempt to design pathways that may reveal answers— musicians similarly may pursue an idea or theme in their mind, and attempt to find a way to assemble such sounds and take them from a thought to an auditory experience that others may enjoy. Both science and art, when successful, are ways to amplify the quality of human existence. Both provide enrichment and advantage, and each has the power to heal in its own way. Similarly, our laboratory is driven by the intensity of purpose, dedication to detail, and powered by the creativity and energy of our fellows, students, visiting scientists, research assistants, research associates, and technical and support staff. Opportunities to share and learn from each other keep us all fresh and motivated.

This is why I look forward, with excitement, to May 910, 2023 as the Sabri Ülker Center for Metabolic Research at Harvard University, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health returns to Istanbul for the fourth Sabri Ülker “Metabolism and Life Symposium”. The opportunity to gather in person once again, for a celebration of science and culture in the 100th Anniversary year of the Republic of Turkey, adds to this significance. The “Metabolism and Life Symposium” brings together a spectacular array of global experts, exploring broad aspects of metabolism in health and disease states and during the aging process.

Thanks to the support of the Ülker family and the Sabri Ülker Foundation, this series of symposia began in 2016, and has become an incubator for the scientific leaders of the future to interact with those international scholars who are currently making discoveries which advance our understanding of the molecular details of metabolic pathways, in search of approaches to translate this exploration into treatments and preventive approaches to fight metabolic disease.

The symposium is a great platform for young and emerging scientists to interact with established experts, and for local and international scholars to build new networks. We are confident that this event will lead to new perspectives, stimulate new collaborations, and inspire future scholarly efforts. We will gather to celebrate science, culture and the arts, in a venue that promises to leverage the beauty and importance of all three, combined.