2026–2027 Schedule

• Friday, October 9, 2026
  Timothy Petros, Ph.D., NICHD
  Losing your inhibition – Mechanisms regulating interneuron fate and maturation

• Friday, November 6, 2026
  Kaitlyn Sadtler, Ph.D., NIBIB
  Immunomodulation after traumatic injury: from the Golden Hour through tissue regeneration

• Friday, December 4, 2026
  Amy Janes, Ph.D., NIDA
  Neuroimaging insights into substance use: a focus on nicotine dependence

• Friday, January 8, 2027
  Peter Grayson, M.D., M.Sc., NIAMS
  Clonal forms of systemic vasculitis

• Friday, February 5, 2027
  Sean Agbor-Enoh, M.D., Ph.D., NHLBI
  Rigor, reproducibility, broad applicability: cell-free DNA for early disease detection

• Friday, March 12, 2027
  Peter Pinto, M.D., NCI/CCR
  Technological advances in the detection and treatment of prostate cancer

• Friday, April 9, 2027
  Tiffany Powell-Wiley, M.D., M.P.H., NHLBI
  Integrating community engagement and the biology of adversity for precision prevention of cardiometabolic diseases

• Friday, May 7, 2027
  Paule Joseph, Ph.D., M.B.A., NIAAA
  Reawakening attention to smell and taste in alcohol use, metabolism, and brain health

• Friday, June 4, 2027
  Ping Zhang, Ph.D., NCI/CCR
  Structural and molecular mechanisms of kinase signaling complexes