Welcome: Marc Tessier-Lavigne, Ph.D., president, Carson Family Professor and head, Laboratory of Brain Development and Repair, The Rockefeller University
Joseph Goldstein, M.D., Julie and Louis A. Beecherl, Jr. Distinguished Chair in Biomedical Research; chairman, department of molecular genetics, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Jeffrey Friedman, M.D., Ph.D., Marilyn M. Simpson Professor and head, Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, The Rockefeller University; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Michael S. Brown, M.D., Paul J. Thomas Professor of Molecular Genetics and director, Jonsson Center for Molecular Genetics, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Phillip Gorden, M.D., senior investigator, diabetes, endocrinology and obesity branch, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Jeffrey S. Flier, M.D., dean and Caroline Shields Walker Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Stephen O'Rahilly, M.D., co-director, Institute of Metabolic Research; director, University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories; director, Metabolic Diseases Unit; professor, clinical biochemistry and medicine, University of Cambridge