MDRC Members: all

Yatrik M. Shah, PhD

Horace W. Davenport Collegiate Professor of Physiology

Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology and Professor of Internal Medicine, Medical School

Areas of Expertise:

Hypoxia, steatosis, fibrosis

Molecular and Integrative Physiology Profile

Shah Lab

shahy@umich.edu

Lonnie Shea, PhD

Steven A. Goldstein Collegiate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

William and Valerie Hall Department Chair of Biomedical Engineering

Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Professor of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering and Medical School

Professor of Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering

Professor of Surgery, Medical School

Areas of Expertise:

Islet transplantation, autoimmune tolerance, regenerative medicine

Biomedical Engineering Profile

Shea Lab

ldshea@umich.edu

Assia Shisheva, PhD

Professor of Physiology, Wayne State University

Areas of Expertise:

Mouse models of insulin resistance, insulin responsiveness in target cells and tissues, mouse models for metabolic syndrome

Wayne State University Profile

ashishev@med.wayne.edu

Kanakadurga Singer, MD

Valerie Castle Opipari, MD Professor of Pediatrics

Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Medical School

Areas of Expertise:

Pediatric obesity, hematopoiesis, inflammation and metabolism

Michigan Medicine Profile

Singer Lab

ksinger@umich.edu

Yolanda R. Smith, MD

Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Medical School

Areas of Expertise:

Menopause, cognition, estrogen, polycystic ovary syndrome

Michigan Medicine Profile

ysmith@umich.edu

Scott Soleimanpour, MD

Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Medical School

Areas of Expertise:

Beta cell biology, endosomes/autophagy/mitophagy, islet transplantation

Michigan Medicine Profile

Soleimanpour Lab

ssol@umich.edu

Elizabeth Speliotes, MD, PhD, MPH

Keith S. Henley, MD Collegiate Professor of Gastroenterology

Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Associate Professor of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, Medical School

Areas of Expertise:

Human genetics of obesity, NAFLD

Michigan Medicine Profile

Speliotes Lab

espeliot@umich.edu

Jena J. Steinle, PhD

Professor of Ophthalmology, Visual and Anatomical Scienes, School of Medicine, Wayne State University

Areas of Expertise:

Anatomy & cell biology, ophthalmology

Wayne State University Profile

jsteinle@med.wayne.edu

Rita Strakovsky, PhD, RD

Assistant Professor of Maternal Nutrition and Toxicology, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Michigan State University

Areas of Expertise:

Perinatal epidemiology, toxicology, nutrition

Michigan State University Profile

strakovs@msu.edu

Edward L. Stuenkel, PhD

Professor Emeritus of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Medical School

Areas of Expertise:

Beta cell, insulin secretion, exocytosis

Molecular and Integrative Physiology Profile

esterm@umich.edu

Shengyi (Iris) Sun, PhD

Assistant Professor of Molecular Medicine and Genetics and of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Wayne State University

Areas of Expertise:

ER-associated degradation, immunometabolism, nutrient metabolism

Wayne State University Profile

Sun Lab

shengyisun@wayne.edu

Meng H. Tan, MD

Professor Emeritus of Internal Medicine, Medical School

Areas of Expertise:

Dyslipidemias in diabetes, insulin resistance, thiazolidinediones

Michigan Medicine Profile

mengt@umich.edu

Inas Thomas, MD

Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Medical School

Areas of Expertise:

Type 1 diabetes, clinical trial, insulin pump

Michigan Medicine Profile

inash@umich.edu

Xin (Tony) Tong, MD, PhD

Research Assistant Professor, Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Medical School

Areas of Expertise:

Transcriptional regulation, post-translational modifications, glucose/lipid metabolism

Molecular and Integrative Physiology Profile

xintong@umich.edu

Raymond C. Trievel, PhD

Associate Professor of Biological Chemistry, Medical School

Associate Professor of Biophysics, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Areas of Expertise:

Chromatin modification, transcriptional regulation, enzyme structure and function

Biological Chemistry Profile

rtrievel@umich.edu

Delia M. Vazquez, MD

Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Psychiatry, Medical School

Areas of Expertise:

Early life obesity, developmental programming, stress

Michigan Medicine Profile

dmvazq@umich.edu

Kristen J. Verhey, PhD

A. Kent Christensen Collegiate Professor

Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, Medical School

Professor of Biophysics, College of Literature, Science and the Arts

Areas of Expertise:

Cytoskeleton, cilia, membrane trafficking

Cell and Developmental Biology Profile

Verhey Lab

kjverhey@umich.edu

Matam Vijay-Kumar, PhD

Professor of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Toledo

Areas of Expertise:

IBD, metabolic syndrome, gut microbiota

University of Toledo Profile

matamvijay.kumar@utoledo.edu

Anne B. Vojtek, PhD

Associate Professor of Biological Chemistry, Medical School

Areas of Expertise:

Signaling, cell growth, neural differentiation

Biological Chemistry Profile

avojtek@umich.edu

Jian Wang, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Pathology, Wayne State University

Areas of Expertise:

Amino acid metabolism, one-carbon metabolism, fatty liver disease

Wayne State University Profile

jianwang@med.wayne.edu

Jiemei Wang, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Wayne State University

Areas of Expertise:

Wound healing, non-coding RNA, angiogenesis

Wayne State University Profile

jiemei.wang@wayne.edu

Ping Wang, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Radiology, Precision Health Program, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University

Areas of Expertise:

Islet transplantation, type 1 diabetes, stem cell

Michigan Medicine Profile

wangpin4@msu.edu

Lois S. Weisman, PhD

Sarah Winans Newman Collegiate Professor in the Life Sciences

Research Professor, Life Sciences Institute

Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, Medical School

Areas of Expertise:

Diabetes, phosphatidylinositol 3,5 bis phosphate, endosomes

Life Sciences Institute Profile

Weisman Lab

lweisman@umich.edu

Stephen J. Weiss, MD

E. Gifford and Love Barnett Upjohn Professor of Internal Medicine and Oncology

Professor of Internal Medicine, Medical School

Research Professor, Life Sciences Institute

Areas of Expertise:

Adipocytes, adipose tissue, extracellular matrix

Weiss Lab

sjweiss@umich.edu

Robert Wessells, PhD

Associate Professor of Physiology, Wayne State University

Areas of Expertise:

Cardiac, exercise, drosophila

Wayne State University Profile

rwessell@med.wayne.edu

Margaret V. Westfall, PhD

Associate Professor of Cardiac Surgery, Associate Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology and Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Medical School

Areas of Expertise:

Sarcomere, signaling, heart failure

Cardiac Surgery Profile

wfall@umich.edu

Terrence N. Wong, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine, Medical School

Areas of Expertise:

Acute myeloid leukemia, hematopoiesis, clonal evolution

Michigan Medicine Profile

tnwong@umich.edu

Jun Wu, PhD

Research Assistant Professor, Life Sciences Institute

Assistant Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Medical School

Areas of Expertise:

Obesity, beige fat, brown fat

Life Sciences Institute Profile

Wu Lab

wujunz@umich.edu

Bin Xu, PhD

Associate Research Scientist, Internal Medicine, Medical School

Areas of Expertise:

LncRNA coactivator, nuclear receptor, adipogenesis

bxu@umich.edu

Wen Ye, PhD

Associate Research Scientist, Biostatistics, School of Public Health

Areas of Expertise:

Longitudinal data analysis, survival data analysis, diabetes disease model

School of Public Health Profile

wye@umich.edu

Zhengping Yi, PhD

Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Wayne State University

Areas of Expertise:

Insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes, mass spectrometry and proteomics, signal transduction, protein phosphorylation, protein-protein interactions

Wayne State University Profile

zhengping.yi@wayne.edu

Lei Yin, PhD

Associate Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology and Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Medical School

Areas of Expertise:

Liver metabolism and metabolic diseases, NAFLD, circadian rhythm, lipid metabolism, protein ubiquitination

Molecular and Integrative Physiology Profile

Yin Lab

leiyin@umich.edu

Deqiang Zhang, PhD

Research Investigator, Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Medical School

Areas of Expertise:

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, ChREBP, circadian clock

Molecular and Integrative Physiology Profile

deqiangz@umich.edu

Kezhong Zhang, PhD

Professor of Molecular Medicine and Genetics and of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Wayne State University

Areas of Expertise:

Lipid metabolism, ER stress, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

Wayne State University Profile

kzhang@med.wayne.edu