More than 400 people logged in to view the virtual 2021 Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI) Annual Meeting on Friday, September 24. The theme for the event was, Preventing the Smoldering Pandemic of Obesity and the Metabolic Syndrome.
Recordings are now available (by hovering over the bullet-pointed headlines in red font) from the keynote sessions, research poster presentations, and afternoon sessions featuring research by faculty from Indiana University, Purdue University, the University of Notre Dame and IU School of Medicine:
- Welcome, Watanabe Prize and Q&A
- Welcome — Indiana CTSI Co-Directors Sharon Moe, MD, and Sarah Wiehe, MD, MPH
- Presentation of 2021 August M. Watanabe Prize in Translational Research and Keynote Address: Probing the Human Kallikrein-Kinin System: a case study in Clinical/Translational Research
- Watanabe Awardee: Nancy J. Brown, MD, Dean, Yale Medical School
- Introduction by: Jay L. Hess, MD, PhD, MHSA, Dean, Indiana University School of Medicine
- Live Audience Q & A with Nancy J. Brown, MD, Dean, Yale Medical School
- Research Poster Presentations 1
- Conner Earl, TL1 Predoctoral Trainee, Purdue University, Four-Dimensional Strain Characterization of Cardiomyopathy in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy from Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Josiah Davidson, TL1 Predoctoral Trainee, Purdue University, Development of paper-based, point-of-care respiratory diagnostics
- Season Johnson, TL1 Postdoctoral Trainee, IU School of Medicine, MR1/MAIT cell axis in human and experimental models of Alzheimer’s Disease
- Research Poster Presentations 2
- Jamie Felton, MD, KL2 Scholar, Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Cellular Metabolic Reprogramming Precedes Islet Autoimmunity in Type 1 Diabetes
- Matthew Hume, MA, Indiana CTSI-affiliated Investigator, Department of English, IUPUI, Determining the Power of the CoMac Descriptor™ in Predicting Behavioral Intervention Choices among the Gestational Diabetes Population
- Siyuan Zhang, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Use of the Genomics and Bioinformatics Core Facility to publish CNS-Native Myeloid Cells Drive Immune Suppression in the Brain Metastatic Niche through Cxcl10 in Cell
- Virtual poster presentations
- Person-to-Person Health Interview Study Findings; Obesity Disproportionality Affecting Minorities — Stephen Carter, PhD, Assistant Professor, Indiana University Bloomington School of Public Health
- Dysfunction of the Circadian Clock that Underlies Several Disease States, including Obesity and Diabetes — Giles Duffield, PhD, Associate Professor Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame
- Indiana CTSI and State Department of Health Community Coalitions’ Approach to Prevention and Treatment of Obesity and the Metabolic Syndrome — Dennis Savaiano, PhD, Director of the Connections IN Health/Indiana State Department of Health Coalition Development Program, Purdue University; Lily Darbishire, MPH, RDN, PhD Candidate, Department of Nutrition Science, Purdue University
- Shoulder-to-Shoulder Against The Menace of Diabetic Ulcer — Chandan Sen, PhD, IU Distinguished Professor, Associate Dean for Entrepreneurship, Indiana University School of Medicine, and Executive Director, Indiana University Health Comprehensive Wound Center
- Future of Science in the Metabolic Syndrome by Nancy J. Brown, MD, and Closing Remarks by Sharon Moe, MD, and Sarah Wiehe, MD, MPH
