With the goal of encouraging continuous education and promoting excellent scientific discussions, the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) held the I International Transdisciplinary Symposium 2024. The symposium brought together international speakers, professors, researchers, and students from UFRJ's graduate programs in health sciences.

The Graduate Program in Endocrinology actively participated in the event and received three honorable mentions for poster presentations:

1 - Investigation of the binding affinity of endocrine disruptors to androgen receptor

Reinaldo Röpke Junior¹^,² , Sunday Amos Onikanni¹, Pedro de Sena Murteira Pinheiro³^,⁴, Leandro Miranda-Alves¹^,²^,⁴

(1) Laboratory of Experimental Endocrinology (LEEx), Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; (2) Graduate Program in Endocrinology, Faculty of Medicine, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil; (3) Laboratory for the Evaluation and Synthesis of Bioactive Substances (LASSBio), Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; (4) Graduate Program of Pharmacology and Medicinal Chemistry, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.

2 - Study of osteometabolic changes in individuals with type 1 Diabetes mellitus treated at the outpatient clinic of the Clementino Fraga Filho University Hospital (HUCFF)

Filipe Barbosa Linhares¹, Laura Maria Carvalho de Mendonça², Miguel Madeira¹, Leonardo Vieira Neto¹, Melanie Rodacki³, Maria Lucia Fleiuss de Farias¹

(1) Graduate Program in Endocrinology, Faculty of Medicine, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil; (2) Department of Internal Medicine and Rheumatology Unit, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Clementino Fraga Filho University Hospital, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil; (3) Nutrology and Diabetes Department, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.

3 - Endothelial to mesenchymal transition in non-functioning gonadotroph adenomas

Thiago Guedes Van Erven Louzada¹^,², Elisa Lamback¹^,²^,³, Renan Miranda², Felipe Andreiuolo², Rômulo Sperduto Dezonne², Mônica R. Gadelha¹^,²^,³

(1) Neuroendocrinology Research Center/Endocrinology Division, Medical School and Clementino Fraga Filho University Hospital, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; (2) Neuropathology and Molecular Genetics Laboratory, Paulo Niemeyer State Brain Institute, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; (3) Neuroendocrine Unit, Paulo Niemeyer State Brain Institute, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Check HERE all the participations of the Graduate Program in Endocrinology at the I International Transdisciplinary Symposium 2024.