2023 Physician-Scientist Symposium

May 19, 2023
EPNEC Auditorium

Join us for the third annual WU Physician-Scientist Symposium highlighting the work of Washington University Physician-Scientist trainees.

Hosted by the WashU Division of Physician-Scientists.

Keynote and First Annual Stuart Kornfeld Physician-Scientist Lecture

Joseph L. Goldstein M.D.

Regental Professor, Dept. of Molecular Genetics
UT Southwestern School of Medicine
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1985

Ophthalmology Presentations

“NAD+ depletion induces cholesterol–mediated macrophage senescence that drives neurodegeneration”

Mitsukuni Yoshida, MD PhD
Resident – Anesthesiology (ASAP trainee)

Posters

“Targeting cell type–specific, choroid–peripheral immune signaling to treat age–related macular degeneration”

Joseph Lin, BS
MSTP trainee

“Energy metabolism is a distinguishing feature of retinal ganglion cell types and is correlated with survival after axon injury”

Zelun Wang
MSTP trainee