Mount Sinai Center for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology

Terry F. Davies Distinguished Professorship Lecture Series

The Terry F. Davies Distinguished Professorship Lecture Series is held annually in honor of Dr. Terry F. Davies’ long and distinguished record of significant contributions to our knowledge of endocrine physiology and pathology in the area of thyroid disease. Past topics and lecturers include Nuclear Receptors and the Circadian Regulation of Metabolism, presented by Mitchell A. Lazar, MD, PhD of the University of Pennsylvania (2024) and Calorie Restriction for Weight Loss: What’s Up with the Skeleton?, presented by Clifford J. Rosen, MD of Tufts University School of Medicine and the Maine Health Institute of Research (2023).

Distinguished Speaker Series

The Center’s Distinguished Speaker Series emphasizes investigators who are highly accomplished in their respective fields. Recent topics and lecturers include “Iron Chaperones Control the Fate of Iron in Mammals,” presented by Caroline Philpott, MD, Chief of Genetics and Metabolism Section, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health; “Paranoid Plants: Genetic Conflict in the Immune System.” by Detlef Weigel, PhD, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Biology Tubingen, Germany; “Interception in Bone Homeostasis, Disorders, and Pain,” by Xu Cao, PhD, Lee Riley Professor, Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Director, Center for Musculoskeletal Research, Johns Hopkins University; “The Landscape of Autophagy in the Brain, Neurologic Disease, and Beyond,” by Zhenyu Yue, PhD, Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience,The  Friedman Brain Institute, Director of the Basic Research of Movement Disorders Program at Mount Sinai; “Aging from the Lens of Metabolism,” by Danica Chen, PhD, Professor of Metabolic Biology, Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology, University of California, Berkeley; and “Osteoimmunology and Autoimmune Diseases,” by Hiroshi Takayanagi, MD, PhD, Professor and Chair of the Department of Immunology, University of Tokyo.

Seminar Series

The Center’s Seminar Series provides an opportunity for early career investigators to share their developing research to facilitate new opportunities for collaboration and mentorship.