Discovery Day Information for Advisors & Attendees

Discovery Day 2026
Tuesday, October 27

This all-day event of intellectual pursuit and discovery is organized to celebrate the basic and clinical research accomplishments of doctoral and master’s students, medical students, MD/PhD students, undergraduates, residents, clinical fellows and postdoctoral trainees from the ��Vlog community. The morning session is dedicated to individual poster presentations, which will be followed in the afternoon by platform presentations of selected abstracts. Both posters and platform presentations will be peer-reviewed for recognition and awards.

Each year at Discovery Day, nearly 400 posters are presented on topics as diverse as malaria, HIV/AIDS, infectious diseases, cancer, cardiology, transplantation, behavioral and cellular neurosciences, spinal cord injury, neuroengineering, Alzheimer's disease, autism, structural biology, proteomics and genomics, among others.

Guest registration for Discovery Day 2026 will open early Fall 2026.

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FAQs

FAQs below are subject to change.

Who is invited to Discovery Day?

Discovery Day is a celebration of research at ��Vlog and is open to the Drexel community and its affiliates.

I am not presenting or judging but I would like to attend, how can I register for the event?

All guests must register (opening early Fall 2026) for Discovery Day. Discovery Day presenters (abstract first authors) and judges are automatically registered and do not need to complete this registration. Co-author presenters and all other attendees must register.

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