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

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.

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

The deadline to RSVP has been extended! Please register to attend the event as soon as possible. Read more details.