The DRC sponsors an annual diabetes symposium held each November in honor of World Diabetes Day. This day-long program brings together DRC scientists and their trainees to showcase outstanding recent developments in diabetes research, to foster new collaborations, and to increase DRC scientists’ collective knowledge of diabetes research at Washington University and at other outstanding institutions.
Based on recommendations of the Internal Advisory Committee, one or two external experts are invited annually to deliver a lecture and interact with DRC investigators in a research forum where posters are presented by DRC laboratories (average 50/year) and in one-on-one meetings.
When possible, the Diabetes Day Program been coordinated with visits by External Advisors to the DRC, as lectures by these outstanding leaders in diabetes research are well suited for this occasion, and the opportunity to learn about a broad sampling of the DRC research at the poster session is invaluable in their assessment of Center productivity.
2023 Diabetes Day Symposium Recap
2023 Diabetes Day Symposium 
Diabetes Day poster presentations 
Sandip Mukherjee 
Tamara Hershey 
David Piston, PhD (left) and Sister Grace Miriam Usala, RSM, MD (right) 
David Piston, PhD (left) and Max Petersen, MD, PhD (right) 
David Piston, PhD (left) and Jeongmin Lee (right) 
David Piston, PhD (left) and Xuejing Liu, PhD (right) 
David Piston, PhD (left) and Mohammad Habibi (right) 
David Piston, PhD (left) and Wentong Jia, PhD (right) 
Lori Sussel, PhD (left) and David Piston, PhD (right) 
2023 Diabetes Day Symposium lecture
Upcoming
Information will be provided here when the 2024 Diabetes Day Symposium approaches.
Previous Diabetes Day Symposiums
Lori Sussel, PhD
University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus
Debbie Thurmond, PhD
City of Hope Beckman Research Institute
Donald A. McClain, MD, PhD
Wake Forest Clinical and Translational Science Institute
Jeffrey E. Pessin, PhD
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Maike Sander, MD
University of California San Diego
Steven E. Kahn, MB, ChB
University of Washington, Seattle
Barbara Kahn, MD
Harvard Medical School
Raghu Mirmira, MD, PhD
Indiana University
Andrew F. Stewart, MD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Karin E. Bornfeldt, Ph.D.
University of Washington
Robert S. Sherwin, M.D.
Yale School of Medicine
Alan R. Shuldiner, M.D.
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Diabetes Day Symposium 2011
Michael W. Schwartz, M.D.
University of Washington
Diabetes Day Symposium 2010
Mark A. Magnuson, M.D.
Vanderbilt University
Jeffrey E. Pessin, Ph.D.
Albert Einstein College of Medicine