Speaker Details

Speaker

GÖKHAN HOTAMIŞLIGİL

Professor, Genetics and Metabolism and Nutrition Harvard
University

Hotamisligil graduated from Ankara University, Medical School in 1986 and completed his specialty training and dissertation studies in Biological Chemistry and Molecular Genetics at Harvard University. He is currently the J.S. Simmons Professor of Genetics and Metabolism, Chair of the Department of Genetics and Complex Diseases and Sabri Ülker Center. His seminal discoveries and innovative work has opened up new fields of study on fundamental mechanisms related to metabolic diseases and recognized by many distinctions including Markey and Pew Fellowships, TUBITAK Science Award, Outstanding Scientific Accomplisment Award of American Diabetes Association, Naomie Berrie, Wertheimer and Roy Greep Awards and Danone International Nutrition Prize. He is elected member of Turkish Academy of Sciences and elected fellow of AAAS and serves on the Board of Directors of Kadir Has University. Hotamışlıgil’s discoveries have introduced new concepts for diabetes, obesity, atherosclerosis and fatty liver disease and inspired many drug development programs. Through multiple industry-academia partnership programs, Hotamışlıgil continues to pursue preventive and therapeutic solutions for common metabolic diseases.

Symposium Faculty

ALAN D. ATTIE

Professor, Biochemistry
University of Wisconsin

LAURIE H. GLIMCHER

Professor, Dean of Cornell Medical School

ROBERT FARESE

Professor, Genetics and Complex Diseases Harvard T.H. Chan
School of Public Health

GÖKHAN HOTAMIŞLIGİL

Professor, Genetics and Metabolism and Nutrition Harvard
University

BRIAN KOBILKA

Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology
Stanford University

SUSANNE MANDRUP

Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
University of Southern Denmark

EMILIE MARCUS

CEO of Cell Press and Editor of Cell

RUSLAN MEDZHITOV

David W. Wallace Professor of Immunobiology; Investigator,
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Yale University, HHMI

IRA TABAS

Professor of Anatomy Cell Biology
Columbia University

PETER TONTONOZ

Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
University of California Los Angeles

DENİZ ATASOY

Assistant Professor, Physiology, School of Medicine
İstanbul Medipol University

EBRU ERBAY

Assistant Professor, Molecular Biology and Genetics
Bilkent University

KIVANÇ BİRSOY

Assist. Professor, Rockefeller University

LALE OZCAN

Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Columbia University Medical Center