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Academic Symposia
Leptin and Metabolic Disease: A Special Symposium on the 20th Anniversary of the Discovery of Leptin
Leptin at 20: Body Weight Regulation and the Hunger Hormone
6:00 p.m.: Welcome: Marc Tessier-Lavigne, Ph.D., president, Carson Family Professor and head, Laboratory of Brain Development and Repair, The Rockefeller University Joseph Goldstein, M.D., Julie and Louis A. Beecherl, Jr. Distinguished Chair in Biomedical Research; chairman, department of molecular genetics, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Introductory Remarks and Moderator Jeffrey Friedman, M.D., Ph.D., Marilyn M. Simpson Professor and head, Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, The Rockefeller University; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Michael S. Brown, M.D., Paul J. Thomas Professor of Molecular Genetics and director, Jonsson Center for Molecular Genetics, UT Southwestern Medical Center Phillip Gorden, M.D., senior investigator, diabetes, endocrinology and obesity branch, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases Jeffrey S. Flier, M.D., dean and Caroline Shields Walker Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Stephen O'Rahilly, M.D., co-director, Institute of Metabolic Research; director, University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories; director, Metabolic Diseases Unit; professor, clinical biochemistry and medicine, University of Cambridge
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