Track: PHARMACOLOGY
Track: Cancer and Therapy
Track: Cardiovascular
Track: Drug Discovery and Development
Track: Molecular Pharmacology
Track: Neuroscience
Joan Heller Brown
Univ of California – San Diego
The 2021 Axelrod Awardee, Joan Heller Brown, has organized a fast-paced symposium that will include her award lecture. The Axelrod symposium is funded by the John V. Croker Fund.
It is now appreciated that G-protein coupled receptors and G-protein signaling pathways regulate chronic responses mediated through changes in gene transcription. Dr. Heller Brown will discuss studies that began with G-protein regulation of astrocyte growth and of cardiomyocyte hypertrophy, and lead to discovery of pathways critical for glioblastoma tumorgenesis and development of heart failure. Immediately following we’ll hear from Stefan Offermanns exploring novel GPCRs regulating metabolic disease, Gerald Dorn discussing G-proteins in mitochondrial dynamics and heart disease, and wrap up with a talk from Bryan Roth about GPCRs in psychiatric disorders.
Speaker: Joan Heller Brown – Univ of California – San Diego
Speaker: Stefan Offermanns – Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research
Speaker: Gerald Dorn – Washington Univ in St. Louis
Speaker: Bryan Roth – Univ of North Carolina at Chapel Hill