Call for Abstracts: Diabetes & Obesity Research Day 2025

DORD
March 31, 2025

UBC Okanagan 

DIABETES & OBESITY RESEARCH DAY 2025

Academic Research Conference

May 29, 2025

Kelowna, British Columbia

Meeting Website

 

Key dates:

Abstract Submission Deadline: April 29

Accommodation & Transportation Deadline: April 29

Registration Deadline: May 14

We would like to extend an invitation to scientists and trainees to attend the UBCO Diabetes & Obesity Research Day 2025.

This meeting will be held at the UBC Okanagan campus in Kelowna, British Columbia on May 29, 2025.

This academic research day will share the latest research in diabetes and obesity research across British Columbia.

 

Invited Keynote Speakers:

Shazhan Amed, MSc, MD

Clinical Professor, Division of Endocrinology & Diabetes, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia

Investigator and Head, Division of Endocrinology & Diabetes, BC Children’s Hospital

 

John Ussher, PhD

Professor, Faculty of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences

University of Alberta

 

Diabetes & Obesity Research Day 2025 will celebrate the accomplishments of our colleagues and the positive impact of their research on people and families living with and at risk for diabetes and obesity across British Columbia.

This exciting annual scientific day enables academic researchers from across British Columbia to connect, collaborate, and present their research.

Graduate trainees are invited to deliver an oral presentation or present a scientific poster highlighting their research project.

This in-person event includes both on campus presentations at UBCO campus and an evening scientific poster reception at a local venue.

This interprovincial meeting is designed to support research collaboration across campuses and connect the UBC Vancouver and UBC Okanagan research communities.

Ground transportation and accommodations will be organized for trainees from Vancouver-Kelowna.

Research themes:

  • Diabetes and Obesity Prevention
  • Dietary and Activity Interventions
  • Behaviour Change
  • Complications of Diabetes and Obesity
  • Molecular Mechanisms
  • Translational Research
  • Islet Cell Therapy

UBC Diabetes Research Network

Research Excellence Clusters at UBC Vancouver are funded through the Grants for Catalyzing Research Clusters program.

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