The Sabri Ülker Center Symposium was organized by Sabri Ülker Center and hosted by Kadir Has University and Sabri Ulker Center Food Research Foundation between May 5-6, 2023.

The “Metabolism and Life” Symposium brings together a spectacular array of global experts exploring broad aspects of metabolism in health and disease states and during the aging process. Since its inception in 2016, the symposium focuses on metabolism which encompasses all the reactions that generate and use energy and is the most fundamental process of life, starting from the synthesis of the very first macromolecule. At the cellular and organismal levels, metabolic flux and balance are requisite to move, replicate, repair damage, and sustain life, and indeed disruptions to this delicate balance are a major contributor to disease and aging. Thus, in some sense metabolism is life. It is the molecular explanation of how we interact with the internal and external environment and operate as living organisms. Proper metabolism ensures robust function and health, and metabolic disturbances set the stage for chronic disease and the greatest threats to global public health. The Sabri Ülker Center for Metabolic Research is committed to investigating the fundamental mechanisms controlling metabolism at the molecular, cellular and organismic levels, explore their relevance for chronic metabolic diseases such as obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases as well as during aging, with the ultimate goal of translation to humans with new preventive and therapeutic strategies to prolong health span.