dkNET community events and announcements in December, 2025

Dear dkNET Community,

dkNET provides updates on activities of interest to the NIDDK-supported community. You could keep up to date on these activities through our Twitter feed @dkNET_info, through our Community Calendar, or through dkNET e-mail list. If you have an event or funding opportunities you'd like to advertise, please contact us info_at_dknet.org.

dkNET News

• Meet the dkNET Team at Cell Bio 2025: The dkNET team will be attending the Cell Bio 2025 in Philadelphia, PA  from December 6-10, 2025! Stop by booth #1129 to learn more about our new features and funding opportunities! We would also love to hear your feedback about our portal so we can continue to improve our service to you! More information: https://dknet.org/about/blog/2879
  

• dkNET Upcoming Webinar: The iPOP project and ScPRS, presented by Dr. Michael Snyder, Stanford W. Ascherman Professor of Genetics at Stanford University on Friday, January 23, 2026, 11 am - 12 pm PT. More information: https://dknet.org/about/webinar
  
  

Events in December 2025

Dec. 02-03, 2025

NIDDK Virtual Symposium "NIH Obesity Research Task Force Symposium: Clinical Research Strategies for Sustainable Obesity Care"

This symposium will explore clinical research strategies for generating evidence to guide individualized decisions for long-term maintenance of health gains after initial obesity treatment success with highly effective AOMs.

Location:  Vitural

More information: https://www.niddk.nih.gov/news/meetings-workshops/2025/clinical-research-strategies-sustainable-obesity-care

Dec. 06-10, 2025

Meet the dkNET Team at Cell Bio 2025

Meet the dkNET team at Cell Bio 2025, the joint meeting of ASC B and EMBO, where the cell biology community gathers to share science, support one another, and spark new ideas.

Location:  Philadelphia, PA, USA

More information: https://www.ascb.org/cellbio2025/

Dec. 15, 2025

2025 D-Challenge Award Ceremony

The D-Challenge is a focused scientific movement that begins with the end in mind. We are leveraging our connections with Type 1 Diabetes researchers and inviting all of them to compete to catalyze innovation and accelerate research towards a practical cure for Type 1 Diabetes.  In doing so, we aim to add a solid appreciation of the biology that drives this relentless disease to the current literature and knowledge base. The winner of the 2025 D-Challenge will be announced on Monday, December 15, 2025, 9 am - 9:30 am PT!

Funding Opportunities Information and Deadlines in December 2025

Dec. 13, 2025

Funding Opportunity Application Due: The Research on Calculus Kinetics (ROCK) Society Traveling Fellowship Grant

The Research on Calculus Kinetics (ROCK) Society Traveling Fellowship Grant is designed to support the ROCK Society mission by promoting: 

·      Cross-disciplinary discussion of the science related to stone disease and of critical knowledge gaps to be addressed in research

·       The exchange of ideas pertaining to clinical experiences and experimental research

·      Fellowship and mutual trust among Society members and other colleagues

Funds will cover travel-related expenditures to visit and meet with other Society members to develop or execute collaborative stone-related research ideas, write collaborative stone-related manuscript s or create other deliverables, or develop skills or gain knowledge related to conducting urolithiasis research.

More information: https://rocksociety.org/