“Metabolism & Precision Health: A Biomedical Engineering Workshop” Is Next Week

The first of two BME Summer Workshops @ Michigan is happening next week. “Metabolism & Precision Health: A Biomedical Engineering Workshop,” an interdisciplinary workshop on metabolism and precision medicine, is scheduled for July 25-26, Thursday from 1:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. and Friday, from 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m., in the NCRC Building 18 Dining Hall.

It is co-sponsored by BME, Precision Health, the Michigan George M. O’Brien Kidney National Resource Center in the Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology.

Confirmed speakers include:

• Nathan Price, Ph.D., Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Human Healthspan at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging, and Chief Scientific Officer, Thorne Health
• Marian Walhout, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Systems Biology, Maroun Semaan Chair in Biomedical Research, UMass Chan Medical School
• Kivanc Birsoy, Ph.D., Chapman-Perelman Associate Professor, Head of Laboratory of Metabolic Regulation and Genetics, Rockefeller University
• Gary Patti, Ph.D., Michael and Tana Powell Professor of Chemistry, Washington University
• Miriam Udler, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
• Ahmet Coskun, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Bernie Marcus Early Career Professorship, Georgia Tech
• Anna Mathew, MBBS, Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine, Nephrology, University of Michigan