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Seminars in Clinical Research
Type Seminars in Clinical Research
Title Oxytocin: New Metabolic Roles for an Ancient Hormone
Subtitle The Michael Lyons Memorial Lecture
Date Wednesday, April 29, 2026
Time 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Location Carson Family Auditorium (CRC)
Speaker(s)

Evan Rosen, M.D., Ph.D., chief, division of endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School

Speaker Bio

Dr. Rosen did his undergraduate work at Cornell University and received an MD and a Ph.D in Cellular and Molecular Biology from the University of Michigan. He then moved to Boston for a residency in Internal Medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and a fellowship in Endocrinology and Metabolism at Massachusetts General Hospital.  After completing a post-doctoral fellowship with Bruce Spiegelman at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute he started his own research group at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where he is now Chief of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is also an Institute Member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Dr. Rosen’s lab works on molecular mechanisms related to obesity, adipocyte development, and the molecular basis of insulin sensitivity, with particular emphasis on transcriptional and epigenomic events that affect metabolic health. In addition to his research activities, Dr. Rosen is a practicing endocrinologist.

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