We are pleased to announce the Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference on From Mechanisms to Therapies: Targeting Cardiometabolic Complications in Obesity and Diabetes which will be held in Suzhou, China, located approximately 60 miles west of Shanghai. The conference will begin at 7:00 pm on the evening of Monday December 15, and will conclude after lunch on Friday December 19, 2025.

The conference will include eight oral sessions and one poster session covering the latest findings across many topics in Obesity and Diabetes. Many talks will be selected from the openly submitted abstracts on the basis of scientific merit and relevance. Social events throughout the conference provide ample opportunity for informal interactions.

Major Topics:

1. Lipotoxicity in Cardiometabolic Diseases

2. The Problem: Cardiometabolic Complications – Mechanisms and Pathophysiology

3. Metabolic Flexibility & Inter-Organ Communication

4. Cellular Response to Metabolic Stress: Inflammation, Autophagy, and Stress Adaptation

5. Interaction with the Exposome: Environmental Factors & Gene-Diet Interactions

6. Epigenetics & Gene Regulation in Metabolism

7. Cardiometabolic Disease Modelling 

8. Precision Medicine, Therapies & Biomarkers for Cardiometabolic Disease

Keynote Speakers:

Changtao Jiang, Peking University

Bart Staels, Institut Pasteur de Lille

Invited Speakers:

Ding Ai, Tianjin Medical University

Federica Accornero, Brown University

Nan Cao, Sun Yat-Sen University

Hyungwon Choi, National University of Singapore

Ana Maria Cuervo, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Luigi Fontana, University of Sydney

Roger Foo, National University Health System

Yuxuan Guo, Peking University

Namshik Han, University of Cambridge

Linzhang Huang, Fudan University

Xiaohong Jiang, Nanjing University

Gavin Kelsey, The Babraham Institute

Charlotte Ling, Lund University

Ruth Loos, University of Copenhagen

Xin-Liang Ma, Thomas Jefferson University

Malu Martínez-Chantar, CIC bioGUNE

Peter Meikle, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute

Xiongzhong Ruan, Chongqing Medical University

Gabriele Schiattarella, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association

Leming Shi, Fudan University

Carmela Sidrauski, Calico Life Sciences

Rajat‌ Singh, University of California, Los Angeles

Lei Sun, Duke-NUS Medical School

Yida Tang, Peking University

Rong Tian, University of Washington

Antonio Vidal-Puig, University of Cambridge

Miao Wang, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College

Yibin Wang, Duke-NUS Medical School

Xu Lin, Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, CAS

Ming Xu, Peking University

Zhelong Xu, Tianjin Medical University

Chen-Yu Zhang, Nanjing University

Lemin Zheng, Peking University

Bin Zhou, Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology (SIBCB)

We encourage abstracts to contain new and unpublished materials. The abstracts must be submitted electronically by the abstract deadline. Selection of material for oral and poster presentation will be made by the organizers. Status (fellow's talk/poster) of abstracts will be posted on our web site as soon as decisions have been made by the organizers. 

Fellowship: 
We are eager to have as many young people as possible attend since they are likely to benefit most from this meeting. A certain number of presentations by graduate students and postdocs in this conference will be selected as fellowship (USD $100-$500) awards. For more details, please visit  Stipends

We look forward to seeing you at Suzhou in December, 2025.