Meet the Game Changers
The eight game-changer sessions at the American Physiology Summit feature some of the biggest topics impacting life and health today. Top scientists from around the world will come together to present on these vital issues.
Healthy Aging | Science Misinformation | Climate Change | Entrepreneurship | Engineering Cells |
Mental Health | Personalized Medicine | Long COVID
The Science of Healthy Aging
This session, chaired by Sue Bodine, PhD, FAPS, and Danielle Levitt, PhD, will link science pertaining to skeletal muscle health, cognitive function and the environmental and behavioral factors affecting overall risk for unhealthy aging.
Speakers
Anne Newman, MD, MPH
University of Pittsburgh
Scott Trappe, PhD
Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana
Jill Morris, PhD
University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City
Combating Science Misinformation
This session, chaired by Dennis Brown, PhD, FAPS, and Melinda Engevik, PhD, is based on a recent PNAS article on science communication and misinformation.
Speakers
Holden Thorp, PhD
Editor-in-Chief of Science
Nicole (Nicky) Krause, PhD
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Joe Palca, PhD
National Public Radio
Animals, Humans and a Hotter Planet: The Physiology of Climate Change
This session, chaired by Hannah Carey, PhD, FAPS, will address the impact of global heat stress and other environmental disturbances on the physiology of humans and animals at individual and population levels.
Speakers
Andrea Fuller, PhD
University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Zachary Schlader, PhD
Indiana University Bloomington School of Public Health
From Innovation to Commercialization: Pathways to Entrepreneurship
This session, chaired by Jeff Sands, PhD, FAPS, and Caroline Appleyard, PhD, FAPS, will discuss beginning research at the basic science level to commercialization, and how they moved their science forward.
Speakers
Sylvie Breton, MSc, PhD
Laval University, Canada
Gary D. Hammer, MD, PhD
University of Michigan
Engineering Cells: New Technologies for Basic and Translational Research
This session, chaired by Linda Samuelson, PhD, FAPS, FAAAS, and Sandrine Pierre, PhD, will address the topic of constructing synthetic or engineered, physiologically relevant cells and tissues.
Speakers
Petra Schwille, PhD
Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry
Megan L. McCain, PhD
University of Southern California
Rewiring the Brain to Treat Depression: Psychedelics and Novel Therapies
This session, chaired by J. Usha Raj, MD, MHA, FAPS, and Scott Edwards, PhD, will discuss new therapeutic strategies, including the use of the psychedelic substance psilocybin, for severe and treatment-resistant depression.
Speakers
Frederic Barrett, PhD
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Nolan Williams, MD, PhD
Stanford University, California
Olusola Ajilore, MD, PhD
University of Illinois at Chicago
Realizing the Promise of Personalized Medicine
This session, chaired by Ari Berman, PhD, will allow experts to share their experiences (the good, bad and ugly) with precision medicine—medical care that uses genetic or molecular profiling to optimize the efficiency or therapeutic benefit for a particular group of patients.
Speakers
Stanley Andrisse, PhD, MBA
Howard University School of Medicine, Washington, D.C.
Ari Berman, PhD
BioTeam, Middleton, Massachusetts
Susan Gregurick, PhD (Invited)
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
Carrie Northcott, PhD
Pfizer, New York
The Race to Understand Long-term COVID-19
This session, chaired by Dee U. Silverthorn, PhD, FAPS, FAAA, FAAAS and Jennifer Pollock, PhD, FAPS, is a moderated panel discussion that looks at what is known about and current research on post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (aka “long COVID”) from animal models and translational research. This session is moderated by Jan Williams, PhD, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson.
Speakers
Michael Hultström, MD, PhD
Uppsala University, Sweden
Stanley Perlman, MD, PhD
University of Iowa, Iowa City
Patricia Silveyra, PhD
Indiana University, Bloomington
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