Training Grants

MMTP Training Faculty

MMTP Training Faculty

  • Brady, Matthew: Adipose tissue, mammary cancer progression, bariatric surgery and sleep
  • Mirmira, Raghavendra: Beta cell dysfunction and death during development of type 1 and 2 diabetes
  • Alenghat, Francis: Macrophages, foam cells and atherosclerosis development
  • Bakris, George: Hypertension, risk of kidney and cardiovascular disease
  • Becker, Lev: Metabolic activation of adipose tissue of macrophages
  • Bell, Graeme: Genetics of monogenic diabetes
  • Bianco, Antonio: Deiodinases, localized thyroid hormone signaling and pathophysiology of thyroid hormone action
  • Chang, Eugene: Microbiome and metabolic diseases
  • Chervonsky, Alexander: Microbiota regulation of type 1 diabetes
  • Cohen, Ronald: Transcriptional control of adipogenesis
  • Dumitrescu, Alexandra: Selenoproteins in islet function and thyroid hormone signaling
  • Ehrmann, David: Polycystic ovary syndrome and metabolic disturbances
  • Esterhazy, Daria: GI interactions with the immune system and development of metabolic disease
  • Fang, Yun: Hemodynamics of blood flow and atherosclerosis development
  • Greeley, Siri: Monogenic diabetes in humans
  • Hubbell, Jeffrey: Designing materials to assemble and stimulate immune systems to prevent type 1 diabetes
  • Koh, Andrew: Immune system, self-tolerance and autoimmune disorders
  • Li, Yan Chun: Regulation of vitamin D production and signaling
  • Light, Sam: Microbial metabolism in the GI track
  • MacLeod, Kay: Mitochondrial function, hepatic metabolic flux and cancer, metastasis
  • Mimee, Mark: Microbiome engineering, metabolic health and disease
  • Muir, Alexander: Tumor cell metabolism
  • Nagler, Cathryn: Food allergies and the immune system
  • Nobrega, Marcelo: How noncoding genetic variants are associated with diabetes etiology
  • Oakes, Scott: Protein folding disorders and human disease
  • Philipson, Louis: Biophysical and molecular control of insulin secretion from beta cells, genetics of diabetes
  • Tasali, Esra: Sleep disruption, metabolic function and insulin sensitivity in humans
  • Van Cauter, Eve: Roles of sleep and circadian rhythms in the control of human endocrine hormones
  • Zhao, Yingming: Post-translational protein modifications during cellular signaling
  • Zhuang, Xiaoxi: Neuronal control of feeding behavior