Symposiums
The NORC Symposium
The 2026 NORC Symposium will be held on Thursday, Febuary 26, 2026, from 9:00 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. in D1.502.
Symposium Invited Speakers
Paul Maclean, Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine
University of Colorado Anschutz
Evan Rosen, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Visiting NORC INSPIRE Scholar
Magdalena Sevilla-Gonzalez, Ph.D.
Instructor
Harvard Medical School
NORC Pilot & Feasibility Grant Awardees
Hume Akahori Stroud, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Neuroscience
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Anne Gilmore, Ph.D., R.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Clinical Nutrition
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Christina Herrera, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Merrine Klakeel, D.O.
Clinical Associate Professor
Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Kartik Rajagopalan, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine
Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Yinshi Ren, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Ashley Solmonson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Cecil H. and Ida Green Center for Reproductive Biology Sciences
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Yi-Ting Tzen, Ph.D., P.T.
Assistant Professor
Department of Applied Clinical Research
UT Southwestern Medical Center
The McGarry Symposium
The McGarry Symposium is named in honor of John Dennis McGarry, Ph.D., who dedicated his 34-year career to diabetes research and made a series of groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of mammalian metabolism.
In 1968, he began working in the laboratory of Daniel W. Foster, M.D., who became UT Southwestern's third Chair of Internal Medicine.
Dr. McGarry's scientific career included discovering that the molecule maloynyl-CoA, an intermediate in de novo fatty acid synthesis, was also responsible for the regulation of hepatic fatty acid oxydation and ketogenesis, by virtue of its ability to inhibit the enzyme carnitine palmitoyltransferase. This mechanism for the reciprocal regulation of hepatic fatty acid synthesis and oxidation has since been shown to be the basis for regulation of fatty acid oxidation in all body tissues.
In the early 1980s, he demonstrated the importance of the "indirect" gluconeogenic pathway for the synthesis of hepatic glycogen.
Dr. McGarry's proposal that disordered metabolism of fatty acids, rather than that of glucose, may be the primary cause in the development of type 2 diabetes revolutionized thinking among diabetes researchers.
The next McGarry Symposium will be held in 2026.