Please join us at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Center City for our annual day of research!

Doctoral and master's students, medical students, MD/PhD students, undergraduates, residents, clinical fellows and postdoctoral trainees from the Drexel University College of Medicine community will present their research.

The day will feature more than 300 posters and platform presentations on biomedical science and clinical research topics. Poster presentations will be judged for awards across several categories.

Visit the Discovery Day webpage for full details.

Keynote Speaker:
Veronica A. Alvarez, PhD, investigator, NIAAA; director, Center on Compulsive Behaviors, National Institutes of Health

Dr. Alvarez earned a PhD degree in Neuroscience in 1997 from University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. She trained as a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. John Williams at the Vollum Institute, OHSU from 1998 to 2001 studying the firing properties of locus coerulues neurons and its modulation by opioids. She then trained with Dr. Bernardo Sabatini at Harvard Medical School from 2001-2007 where she studied mechanisms of functional and morphological plasticity at glutamatergic synapses using electrophysiology and two-photon imaging. In 2008, she established an independent research program at NIAAA where she is investigator and acting chief of the Section on Neuronal Structure.