Mark your calendars: The Brain Body Dialogues in Health and Disease Symposium will be on September 17, 2025, 9:45am–5pm in the Merck Auditorium on Blackfan St. We’ll hear from nine luminaries whose research has revolutionized our understanding of brain-body signaling:
Polina Anikeeva, PhD
Department Head and Matoula S. Salapatas Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Isaac Ming-Cheng Chiu, PhD
Professor of Immunology, Harvard Medical School
Hans Clevers, MD, PhD
Professor in Molecular Genetics, Hubrecht Institute and Utrecht University
Jeffrey M. Friedman, MD, PhD
Marilyn M. Simpson Professor, Laboratory of Molecular Genetics,
The Rockefeller University
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Chenghua Gu, PhD
Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Stephen Liberles, PhD
Professor of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Ardem Patapoutian, PhD
Professor, The Scripps Research Institute
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Bernardo Sabatini, MD, PhD
Alice and Rodman W. Moorhead III Professor of Neurobiology,
Harvard Medical School
Co-Director, Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence, Harvard University
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Erica K. Sloan, PhD
Professor, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University
We look forward to seeing you all there!
HMS Department of Neurobiology, the Harvard Brain Science Initiative, and the K. Lisa Yang Brain Body Center