The Department of Pharmacology is hosting a mini-symposium titled, "The Biology of Endocrine FGFs: From Basic Mechanisms to Therapeutic Opportunities" on Monday, February 11, 2019, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in TAC N107, The Anlyan Center, 300 Cedar Street.
This mini-symposium will feature three separate lectures from three distinguished speakers:
“Endocrine Actions of Metabolic Stress Hormone FGF21”
Steven Kliewer
Professor and Diana K. and Richard C. Strauss
Distinguished Chair in Developmental Biology
UT Southwestern Medical Center
“The Secretory Life of FGF21 in the Exocrine Pancreas”
David Mangelsdorf
Professor and Alfred G. Gilman Distinguished Chair in Pharmacology
Raymond and Ellen Willie Distinguished Chair in Molecular Neuropharmacology
UT Southwestern Medical Center
“Elucidation of endocrine FGF signaling offers novel therapeutic opportunities”
Joseph Schlessinger
William H. Prusoff Professor and Chairman of the Department of Pharmacology
Yale University School of Medicine
Coffee and light refreshments will be served.