

The New York Regional Diabetes Research Center presents:
The Norman Fleischer
NYC Regional Diabetes Symposium
May 9, 2025
Bringing together researchers to discuss the latest diabetes science
About the Symposium
The 2025 Norman Fleischer NYC Diabetes Symposium will be held on May 9, at the
NYU Langone Health Schwartz Lecture Hall E Auditorium.
The primary aim of the Norman Fleischer NYC Diabetes Symposium is to provide a forum that promotes professional interaction and facilitates collaboration across institutions in the New York City Metropolitan Area.
The Symposium also aims to foster increased awareness of research and to promote multi-site collaborative projects across the many regional institutions. An emphasis is placed on enabling junior faculty, postdoctoral fellows, fellows and doctoral students to interact with each other as well as with senior faculty and professionals.
The Symposium will, create opportunities for researchers to present their work and enhance career opportunities for junior investigators.
We encourage scientists, clinicians, and other professionals working on diabetes and related traits in academic or other settings to attend the Symposium.
Learn more about the Fleischer Institute for Diabetes and Metabolism and Dr. Norman Fleischer, M.D.
Online registration is OPEN
Abstract Submission closes April 1st
Symposium registrants are encouraged to submit a scientific abstract. Abstracts may be original or proposed research topics from the following categories:
- Metabolism, signaling and Integrative Physiology
- Diabetes technology
- Clinical - therapies, trials, interventions, care or education
- Genetics/Epigenetics, Lifestyle and the environment
- Diabetes-associated diseases
- Pathogenesis, epidemiology or etiology
A committee, comprising scholars from participating Institutions, will review submitted abstracts.
- The top 5 abstracts will be awarded short oral presentations -
All remaining abstracts will be eligible for poster presentations
"Best Poster Awards" certificates and Amazon gift cards will be presented to the eligible top three scoring posters (1st $300, 2nd $200 and 3rd $100)
The 2025 Agenda and Abstract Book
will be available soon!
Speakers
HAROLD RIFKIN LECTURE
E. Dale Abel, M.D., Ph.D
William S. Adams Distinguished Professor of Medicine
Chair and Executive Medical Director
Department of Medicine
David Geffen School of Medicine and UCLS Health
E. Dale Abel, MD, PhD is the William S. Adams Distinguished Professor and Chair for the Department of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and Executive Medical Director at UCLA Health.
Dr. Abel has had a distinguished career in endocrine and metabolism research. His pioneering work on glucose transport and mitochondrial metabolism in the heart guides his current research interests: molecular mechanisms responsible for cardiovascular complications of diabetes. His laboratory has provided important insights into the contribution of mitochondrial dysfunction and aberrant insulin signaling, to heart failure risk in diabetes.
Dr. Abel’s research program has been continually funded by the National Institutes of Health since 1995, and by the American Heart Association, the American Diabetes Association, and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Dr. Abel is the recipient of numerous awards for scholarship and mentorship, including awards and endowed lectureships such as the Fred Conrad Koch Lifetime Achievement Award of the Endocrine Society, the 2018 African American Museum of Iowa History Makers Award. He is an elected member of the American Association of Physicians (AAP), the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI), the American Clinical and Climatological Association (ACCA), the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) and the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). He is past President of the Endocrine Society and the Association of Professors of Medicine.
Learn more about the department's work and Dr. E. Dale Abel's accomplishments here.
INVITED SPEAKERS
Coming soon!
TBD
TBD
Participating Institutions
Fostering collaborations across regional institutions
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Weill Cornell Medicine
New York Medical College
The Rockefeller University
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
Support
The Symposium is made possible thanks to generous support from:
The Fleischer Family
Symposium activities have been sponsored in part by a gift from the Fleischer family.View more details...The Fleischer Institute for Diabetes & Metabolism
The Fleischer Institute for Diabetes and Metabolism at Montefiore Einstein serves as the home for cutting-edge research (basic, translational, clinical) and clinical care for patients with diabetes, obesity and related conditions. Named after Dr. Norman Fleischer in honor of his pioneering research and contributions to the field of diabetes, the Fleischer Institute builds on the strong foundation he established during his 46-year career at Einstein.View more details...The New York Regional Diabetes Research Center
The New York Regional Diabetes Research Center (NY-DRC) comprises a vibrant, extensive, diverse, well-funded and highly productive program that provides the foundation for high-quality and cutting-edge research in diabetes and related studies in obesity, metabolism and endocrinology.View more details...Contact Us