Metabolism & Endocrinology Themed Meeting

This event is in partnership with the Academy of Medical Sciences & will feature a focused symposium on “Brown adipose tissue: a new human organ?”

Organisers: Toni Vidal-Puig (Cambridge), Michael Symonds (Nottingham) & Jan Nedergaard (Stockholm University, Sweden)

Location: The Royal Society, 6 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AG

Date: 11 December 2012 - 13 December 2012

The Meeting will provide an excellent platform to enable a wide range of clinicians and basic scientists working in a range of diverse inter-related research fields. It will cover the subject from a multi-disciplinary stand-point and will include a focus on endocrinology, development and aging, appetite and metabolic control, tissue imaging and thermoregulation. Leading international experts working on brown adipose tissue will be speaking and thus enable a vibrant and start-of-the-art discussion of its role in energy balance and body weight regulation.

For further information contact events@physoc.org