Congcong He 11th International Symposium on Autophagy 2025

Congcong He

Dr. Congcong He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. Her lab studies how the autophagy machinery, such as Beclin/BECN family proteins, regulates metabolism and behaviors in mouse models, and how autophagy mediates exercise-induced benefits against metabolic and neurological diseases including diabetes and neurodegeneration. Dr. He serves as an Associate Editor for the Autophagy journal and a Consulting Editor for JCI Insight. She is a founding member of the Women In Autophagy (WIA) network, and the co-organizer and chair of the inaugural WIA annual symposium in 2020.

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