Meet our Speakers

Aztekin, Can - PhD

Can Aztekin – The Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society - Tübingen, DE
https://www.fml.tuebingen.mpg.de/63796/aztekin-lab 

Speaker: Session 3 - Redox Metabolism and Regeneration

Banerjee, Ruma - PhD, Prof

Dept. of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor - Michigan, US
https://medresearch.umich.edu/profile/1340/ruma-banerjee

Speaker: Session 3 - Redox Metabolism and Regeneration

Brüning, Jens C - Dr, Prof

Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research & Dept. of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Preventive Medicine, University Hospital Cologne - Cologne, DE
https://www.sf.mpg.de/research/bruening

Speaker: Session 2 -  Carbohydrate Metabolism and Diabetes

Chavakis, Triantafyllos - Dr, Prof

Institute for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, TU Dresden - Dresden DE
https://www.uniklinikum-dresden.de/de/das-klinikum/kliniken-polikliniken-institute/klinische-chemie-und-laboratoriumsmedizin/ikl-forschung-research/groups/Chavakis%20Lab 

Speaker: Session 6  -  Lipid and Fatty Acid Metabolism

Chaves Perez, Almudena - PhD

Cancer Biology and Genetics Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center - New York, US
https://www.sloankettering.edu/research-areas/labs/members/almudena-chaves-perez

Speaker: Session 1  -  Regeneration and Metabolism

Kabashima, Kenji – MD-PhD, Prof

Dept. of Dermatology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University - Kyoto, JP
https://www.a-star.edu.sg/asrl/principal-investigators/kenji-kabashima
 
Speaker: Session 4  -  Immunity and Metabolism

Lee-Kirsch, Min Ae – Dr, Prof

Dept. of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Carl Gustav Carus University Hospital - Dresden, DE
https://www.uniklinikum-dresden.de/de/das-klinikum/kliniken-polikliniken-institute/kik/forschung/molekulare-paediatrie 

Speaker: Session 5  -  Nucleic Acid Metabolism

Mahmoud, Ahmed I - Dr, Prof

Center for Cardiovascular and Muscular Diseases, Sanford Burnham Prebys - La Jolla, US
https://sbpdiscovery.org/scientists/ahmed-mahmoud-phd/ 

Speaker: Session 1 -  Regeneration and Metabolism

Martin-Villalba, Ana - Dr, Prof

German Cancer Research Center - Heidelberg, DE
https://martin-villalba-lab.github.io/

Speaker: Session 5 -   Nucleic Acid Metabolism

Motohashi, Hozumi - MD, PhD, Prof

Dept. of Medical Biochemistry, Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University - Sendai, JP
https://sites.google.com/view/motohashi-lab/home

Speaker: Session 3 - Redox Metabolism and Regeneration

Petersen, Kitt - MD, Prof

Dept. of Internal Medicine (Endocrinology), Yale School of Medicine - New Haven, US
https://medicine.yale.edu/profile/kitt-petersen/

Speaker: Session 6  -  Lipid and Fatty Acid Metabolism

Poeck, Hendrik - Dr, Prof

Hematology and Medical Oncology, Dept. III of Internal Medicine - Regensburg, DE
https://www.ukr.de/innere-medizin-3/informationen-der-klinik-und-poliklinik/forschung/experimentelle-forschung/arbeitsgruppe-prof-dr-h-poeck 

Speaker: Session 5  -  Nucleic Acid Metabolism

Reznick, Jane - PhD

CECAD, University of Cologne - Cologne, DE
https://www.cecad.uni-koeln.de/research/principal-investigators/full-members/jane-reznick

Speaker: Session 4 - Immunity and Metabolism

Roden, Michael - Dr, Prof

Dept. of Endocrinology and Diabetology, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Düsseldorf, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf - Düsseldorf, DE
https://www.carddiab.hhu.de/sprecher-prof-dr-roden 

Speaker: Session 2  -  Carbohydrate Metabolism and Diabetes

Roers, Axel - Dr, Prof

Institute of Immunology, Heidelberg University Hospital - Heidelberg, DE
https://www.klinikum.uni-heidelberg.de/immunologie/forschung/wissenschaftliche-arbeitsgruppen/roers-lab/

Keynote Speaker / External Scientific Organizer: CMMC Lecture II

Sanin, David E - PhD, Prof

Bloomberg-Kimmel Inst. for Cancer Immunotherapy, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine - Baltimore, US
https://profiles.hopkinsmedicine.org/provider/david-e-sanin-pena/2777223

Speaker: Session 4  -  Immunity and Metabolism

Shulman, Gerald - MD-PhD, Prof

Dept. of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine - New Haven, US
https://medicine.yale.edu/profile/gerald-shulman/

Keynote Speaker / External Scientific Organizer: CMMC Lecture III

Sousa, Mónica M – Dr

Nerve Regeneration Group, Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde - i3S - Porto, PT
https://www.i3s.up.pt/research-group.php?groupid=39 

Speaker: Session 1  -  Regeneration and Metabolism

Steinberg, Gregory - PhD, Prof

Dept. of Medicine, McMaster University, Ontario - Hamilton, CA
https://experts.mcmaster.ca/people/gstein

Speaker: Session 6  -  Lipid and Fatty Acid Metabolism

Tanaka, Elly - Dr, Prof

Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) - Vienna, AT
https://tanakalab.org/

Keynote Speaker / External Scientific Organizer: CMMC Lecture I

Taylor, Roy - MD, Prof

Translational and Clinical Research Institute, Newcastle University - Newcastle, GB
https://www.ncl.ac.uk/magres/research/diabetes/reversal/#publicinformation

Speaker: Session 2  -  Carbohydrate Metabolism and Diabetes

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