Duke University School of Medicine Research Symposium
Metabolism and Health Across the Lifespan
Thursday, February 5, 2026 | 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Great Hall, Trent Semans Center for Health Education
Registration is required for the Research Symposium (10:00AM - 4:00PM)
Registration is not required if you are only attending the Distinguished Lecture (4:00 - 5:00PM).
Detailed schedule will be provided soon
All School of Medicine faculty, staff, and trainees are invited.
Sessions
- Gut-Brain Signals and
Hormonal Control of Metabolism
- Lifestyle, Aging, and Precision Health
- Mechanisms of Metabolic Disease
Speakers
- Diego Bohórquez, PhD
- Jonathan Campbell, PhD
- David D’Alessio, MD
- Rana Gupta, PhD
- Terrie Moffitt, PhD
- Deborah Muoio, PhD
- Herman Pontzer, PhD
- Leanna Ross, PhD
- Svati Shah, MD, MHS
- James White, PhD
The symposium will not be recorded or livestreamed.
Concluding with
The 2026 Robert J. Lefkowitz, MD, Distinguished Lecture
"Emerging indications, molecules and mechanisms for GLP-1 medicines"
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Delivered by Daniel Drucker, MD
Professor, Department of Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Senior Scientist, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
Mt. Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto
A livestream link for the Distinguished Lecture will be made available closer to the event and a recording will be available afterwards.