Plenary sessions

ADLM is proud to announce the following plenary sessions. These thought-provoking lectures, held each day, Sunday to Thursday, are delivered by world-renowned experts and cover timely topics spanning the breadth of laboratory medicine. The full lineup will be announced soon.

• Sunday, July 26: Diabetes prevention and treatment: A personal odyssey from bench to bedside
  David Nathan, MD
  2026 Wallace H. Coulter Lectureship Awardee
• Other speakers to be announced in the coming weeks

Sunday, July 26

Diabetes prevention and treatment: A personal odyssey from bench to bedside

2026 Wallace H. Coulter Lectureship Awardee

David M. Nathan, MD
Director, Clinical Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital
Founder, Diabetes Center, Massachusetts General Hospital
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Cambridge, MA, USA

Biography: David M. Nathan, MD, is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He founded the Diabetes Center and directs the Clinical Research Center at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. An internationally acclaimed diabetes expert, he performed early, seminal studies to establish the HbA1c assay and conducted the first clinical studies with GLP-1 therapy in diabetes. Dr. Nathan is best known for his leadership of some of the most important studies in the treatment and prevention of diabetes including the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial and the Epidemiology of Diabetes Interventions and Complications Study in type 1 diabetes, and the Diabetes Prevention Program and the GRADE study in type 2 diabetes. David was awarded the Outstanding Clinician Award in 2002 and the inaugural Outstanding Achievement in Clinical Diabetes Research Award in 2015, both from the American Diabetes Association, and the Distinguished Scientist Award from the NIDDK, NIH in 2010.