Organizer: Ki Woo KIM (Yonsei University College of Dentistry, Korea), Jong-Woo SOHN (Department of Biological Sciences, KAIST, Korea)
Professor Joel ELMQUIST is the Vice Chair of Research for Internal Medicine, Carl H. Westcott Distinguished Chair in Medical Research, Professor of Internal Medicine, Pharmacology, and the Maclin Family Professor in Medical Science at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. He is the founding Director of the Center for Hypothalamic Research at UT Southwestern. He received numerous awards in honors of outstanding scientific achievement in the field of energy and metabolic homeostasis including Ernest Oppenheimer Award from The Endocrine Society (2008) and Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award from American Diabetes Association (2014).
Professor Joel ELMQUIST is a pioneer who used mouse genetics to understand how the brain controls energy balance and glucose homeostasis. In this plenary lecture, his talk will be about brain control of energy homeostasis and effect of exercise on the regulation, particularly focusing on steroidogenic factor 1 (SF-1) in the ventromedial nucleus of the hypothalamus.

Organizer: Man Ho CHOI (Department of Molecular Recognition, KIST, Korea)
Professor Hironobu Sasano is the board-certified pathologist in both Japan and U.S., and has been involved in the translational research of various human neoplasms, including adrenocortical ones. In plenary lecture, he will sneak preview the recently revised WHO endocrine tumor 2022 and its clinical relevance, especially of adrenal tumors. His lecture will cover 1) general concept on the unified nomenclature of neuroendocrine neoplasms, 2) clarification of adrenocortical nodular or hyperplastic diseases in primary aldosteronism adrenals, 3) newly defined subtypes of adrenocortical carcinoma, 4) identification of adrenocortical primary, and 5) the newly proposed concept of PPGL as non-epithelial neuroendocrine tumor and all potentially malignant neoplasms.

Organizer: Won Gu KIM (University of Ulsan, Korea)
Professor George J. KAHALY is a professor of medicine and endocrinology / metabolism and directs the Molecular Thyroid Research Laboratory at the Johannes Gutenberg University (JGU) Medical Center, Mainz, Germany. His research covers clinical and experimental aspects of endocrine autoimmunity, immunogenetics of thyroid, and polyglandular autoimmunity. He served for many years as Treasurer and a principle officer of the Executive Committee of the European Group on Graves’ orbitopathy (EUGOGO). In this plenary lecture, he will cover the molecular pathogenesis of Graves’ orbitopathy (GO) and the EUGOGO evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for the medical management of GO. He will present new therapeutic approaches using monoclonal antibody targeting insulin-like growth factor-1 receptor for patients with active/severe GO.

Organizer: Yumie RHEE (Yonsei University, Korea)
Various transcriptional factors play in the differentiation of osteoblasts, one of the major constituent cells of the bone. Understanding how these transcriptional factors regulate the differentiation of osteoblasts gives us a new perspective on the understanding of bone biology, and furthermore, on the osteoporosis pathophysiology and potential targets of osteoporosis treatment. In this plenary lecture, Prof. Hyun-Mo RYU, School of Dentistry, Seoul National University, will give a lecture about the "Transcriptional Regulation of Osteoblast Differentiation". He has done a lot of research on osteoblast differentiation and transcription factors regulating it. In this plenary lecture, he will especially focus on the role of RUNX2, the key transcriptional factor in osteoblast differentiation, together with the introduction of other transcription factors in bone biology. He will also share the past and latest research results on various pathological phenomena that may appear from the RUNX2 changes.