2020 Symposium
7th Annual UCLA Children's Discovery and Innovation Institute Symposium:
"Metabolism & Obesity"
Thursday, May 21st, 2020
The 7th Annual UCLA Children’s Discovery and Innovation Institute (CDI) Symposium was hosted at UCLA on May 21, 2020 to generate cross-campus collaborations to advance translational child health research. The UCLA CDI Institute is the research home of the Pediatrics Department and was established in 2013. The CDI Institute encourages multidisciplinary child health research and training at UCLA across the spectrum of basic, translational, clinical and health services research. The 2020 Symposium featured Keynote Speaker, Matthew Gillman, MD, SM from NIH and two distinguished UCLA speakers, Orian Shirihai, MD, PhD and Peter Tontonoz, MD, PhD.