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Special Merkin Institute Event: Professor Uri Alon delivers the David Dreier Lectures in Systems Medicine

Alon at boards

Systems Medicine - a "Nanocourse"

In this exciting four-part series, presented in April 2022, Professor Uri Alon of the Weizmann Institute introduced insights from a new systems biology framework for thinking about disease. Over 200 people attended in-person or via zoom.
  1. Hormone circuits Dynamic compensation, diabetes and mood disorders.
  2. Systems immunology Origin of autoimmune diseases, inflammation and fibrosis.
  3. Aging Why we age, what drives aging and the origin of age-related diseases.
  4. A periodic table of diseases Putting it all together.