Center for Metabolic Health
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Members

Leadership

Laura Alonso , M.D.
Research Focus:

Beta-cell stress response and proliferation

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Mingming Hao , Ph.D.
Research Focus:

Cholesterol regulation of beta-cell function

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Faculty Members

Effie Apostolou , Ph.D.
  • Associate Professor of Molecular Biology in Medicine
Research Focus:

Chromatin architecture

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Louis Aronne , M.D.
  • Professor of Clinical Medicine
Research Focus:

Obesity medicine

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John Blenis , Ph.D.
  • Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Professor in Cancer Research, Pharmacology
Research Focus:

How oncogenes, growth factors, GTPases and tumor promoting phorbol esters regulate cell fate of normal cells and when improperly regulated, how they contribute to carcinogenesis through the Ras/ERK-MAPK/RSK and PI3K/mTOR/S6K pathways.

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Puja Chebrolu , M.D.
  • Assistant Professor of Medicine
Research Focus:

Prevention and treatment of diabetes in South Asians

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Shuibing Chen , Ph.D.
  • Kilts Family Professor of Surgery
Research Focus:

Stem cell based high content screens

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Soo Jung Cho , M.D.
  • Assistant Professor of Medicine
Research Focus:

Glycolysis in non metabolic tissues

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Paul Cohen , M.D., Ph.D.
  • Albert Resnick, M.D. Assistant Professor at the Rockefeller University
Research Focus:

Adipose biology and metabolic disease

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Rebecca Craig-Schapiro , M.D., Ph.D.
  • Assistant Professor of Surgery
Research Focus:

Transplantation surgery

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Annarita Di Lorenzo , Ph.D.
  • Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Research Focus:

Sphingolipid biology

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Olivier Elemento , Ph.D.
  • Director of the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine
Research Focus:

Computational genomics

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Baran Ersoy , Ph.D.
  • Assistant Professor of Metabolism in Medicine
Research Focus:

Thioesterase-mediated lipotoxicity in liver and thermogenic adipose tissue

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Robert Farese, Jr. , M.D.
  • Member, Cell Biology Program, SKI
  • Alfred P. Sloan Chair, MSKCC Professor, Weill Cornell
Research Focus:

Cellular lipid and energy metabolism, in particular the mechanisms and physiology of neutral lipid synthesis and storage.

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Matthew Blake Greenblatt , M.D., Ph.D.
  • Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory
Research Focus:

Stem cells in bone metabolism and disease

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Naina Sinha Gregory , M.D.
  • Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
Research Focus:

EDIC trial

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Lorraine Gudas , Ph.D.
  • Chair of Pharmacology
Research Focus:

Development of new drugs to treat type 2 diabetes and hepatic steatosis

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Danwei Huangfu , Ph.D.
  • Member & Professor, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Research Focus:

Protein-coding regulators of pancreatic development and β cell function.

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Puneeth Iyengar , M.D., Ph.D.
  • Director, Metastatic Program, Department of Radiation Oncology, MSKCC
Research Focus:

Cancer cachexia

Anyanate Gwendolyne Jack , M.D.
  • Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Research Focus:

Community outreach

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Sangeeta Kashyap , M.D.
  • Assistant Chief of Clinical Affairs
  • Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine (Interim)
Research Focus:

Type 2 diabetes management, metabolic syndrome pathophysiology and obesity interventions with surgical and non-surgical modalities

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Tibor Krisko , M.D.
  • Assistant Professor of Medicine
Research Focus:

Metabolic microbiome

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Jan Krumsiek , Ph.D.
  • Assistant Professor of Physiology and Biophysics
Research Focus:

Underlying etiology of metabolic component of human diseases, develop novel diagnostic and prognostic markers, and identify innovative therapeutic interventions.

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Sonal Kumar , M.D.
  • Assistant Professor of Medicine
Research Focus:

Fatty liver disease

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Raphael Lis , Ph.D.
  • Assistant Professor of Reproductive Medicine in Medicine
Research Focus:

Tissue-specific endothelial cells for organ regeneration

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James Lo , M.D., Ph.D.
  • Associate Professor of Medicine
Research Focus:

Adipose biology and pancreatic islet physiology

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Frederick R. Maxfield , Ph.D.
  • Vladimir Horowitz and Wanda Toscanini Horowitz Distinguished Professor in Neuroscience, Biochemistry
Research Focus:

Role of macrophages and related cells in metabolic processes including atherosclerosis and neurodegenerative diseases

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Timothy McGraw , Ph.D.
  • Professor of Biochemistry
Research Focus:

Insulin-regulated membrane trafficking

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Felicia Mendelsohn , M.D.
  • Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
  • Director of the Inpatient Glycemic Management Program
Research Focus:

Improving the care of hospitalized patients with diabetes

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Juan M. Pascual , M.D., Ph.D
  • Chief, Division of Child Neurology
  • Professor of Pediatrics, Neurology and Neuroscience
Research Focus:

Genetic and metabolic diseases of the nervous and neuromuscular systems in infants, children and adults, with an emphasis on complex disorders.

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Erica Phillips , M.D.
  • Jack Fishman Associate Professor of Cancer Prevention, Medicine
Research Focus:

Weight management and behavioral management of obesity

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Geoffrey Pitt , M.D., Ph.D.
  • Director of the Cardiovascular Research Institute
Research Focus:

Ion channels in cardiovascular disease

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Jesse Platt , M.D., Ph.D.
  • Assistant Professor of Medicine
Research Focus:

Defining proteolethargy - a pathological reduction in protein mobility triggered by oxidative stress in chronic disease, and uncovering how condensate dysfunction can blunt insulin signaling in insulin resistance, offering new molecular insight into metabolic disease.

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Shahin Rafii , M.D.
  • Professor of Regenerative Medicine
Research Focus:

Adaptable tissue-specific endothelial cells for organ regeneration

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David Redmond , Ph.D.
  • Assistant Professor of Computational Biology Research in Medicine
Research Focus:

Bioinformatics

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Shannon Reilly , Ph.D.
  • Assistant Professor of Metabolic Health in Medicine
Research Focus:

Metabolic pathways impacting obesity and associated metabolic diseases

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Monika Safford , M.D.
  • John J. Kuiper Professor of Medicine
Research Focus:

Disparities in cardiometabolic disease outcomes using large data sets as well as community-based trials of peer coaching interventions

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Rachel Stahl Salzman , MS, RD, CDN, CDCES
  • Registered Dietitian
Research Focus:

Individualized nutrition therapy strategies and behavior modification, diabetes technology, and digital healthcare

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Sarah Schmitz , M.D.
  • Instructor in Medicine
Research Focus:

Obesity and weight management

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Robert E. Schwartz , M.D., Ph.D.
  • Associate Professor of Medicine
Research Focus:

Viral hepatitis, autoimmune causes of liver disease, Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and metabolic causes of liver disease

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Jane Seley , D.N.P.
  • Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine
Research Focus:

Diabetes technologies

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Rohit Sharma , Ph.D.
  • Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology in Medicine
Research Focus:

Beta cell survival

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Alpana Shukla , M.D.
  • Associate Professor of Research in Medicine
Research Focus:

Macronutrient sequencing

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Jinsook Son , Ph.D.
  • Assistant Professor of Metabolic Health in Medicine
Research Focus:

Epigenetic modifications, chromatin regulation and transcription factors in metabolic disease

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Beverly Tchang , M.D.
  • Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Research Focus:

COVID-19 and metabolic disease

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Mary Teruel , Ph.D.
  • Associate Professor of Biochemistry
Research Focus:

Systems biology of adipocytes as central regulators of diabetes, insulin resistance, and obesity

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Tobias Walther , Ph.D.
  • Program Chair, Cell Biology Program; SKI Professor, Weill Cornell
  • Enid A. Haupt Chair in Cell Biology; MSK
  • Investigator, HHMI
Research Focus:

Cellular lipid and energy metabolism, in particular the mechanisms and physiology of neutral lipid synthesis and storage.

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Myles Wolf , M.D.
  • Sanford I. Weill Chair of Medicine
Research Focus:

The role of fibroblast growth factor 23 (FGF23) in normal phosphate and calcium homeostasis, its alterations in patients with chronic kidney disease, the adverse effects of excess FGF23 on cardiovascular health and the molecular mechanisms that underlie these risk relationships.

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Cindy (Yue) Yang , Ph.D.
  • Assistant Professor of Research, Department of Pharmacology
Research Focus:

Therapeutic use of novel NAD+ boosters in aging- and obesity-related metabolic disorders

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Contact Us

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Center for Metabolic Health 413 E 69th St, 6th Floor New York, NY 10021 Phone: (646) 962-6193