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.
Diabetes Day Symposium 2022 
Debbie Thurmond, PhD presenting at the Diabetes Day Symposium 2022 
Debbie Thurmond, PhD presenting at the Diabetes Day Symposium 2022 
Mualla Ozcan 
Poster presenter at the Diabetes Day Symposium 
Annie Meyer Bridwell 
Poster presenter at the Diabetes Day Symposium 
Punn Augsornworawat 
Poster presenter at the Diabetes Day Symposium 
Prattay Deepta Kairy 
Poster presenter at the Diabetes Day Symposium 
Alan Fappi
Previous Diabetes Day Symposiums
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