OUR TEAM
Silvia Corvera, MD
Principal Investigator
Endowed Chair in Diabetes Research, Professor, Program in Molecular Medicine
Anand Desai
Research Associate
“Transcriptional mechanisms of thermogenic gene induction in human adipocytes”
Tiffany DeSouza
Research Associate
“Developing technologies for use of human adipocytes as autologous therapeutic agents”
Javier Solivan-Rivera
Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
“Understanding development of human thermogenic adipose tissue in-vivo using hybrid human/mouse models”
javier.solivan-rivera@umassmed.edu
Zinger Yang Loureiro
Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
“Defining mechanisms of human mesenchymal progenitor cell differentiation into adipocyte subtypes”
Qin Yang
Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
“Molecular interactions defining lipid release from human adipocytes using proximity labeling”
Rachel Ziegler
Research Associate
“Developing delivery matrices for autologous cell implantation”
Collaborators
Tammy Nguyen, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
“Defining pathways of bone marrow hematopoietic and mesenchymal progenitor cell development and impact on diabetic comorbidities”
Tammy Nguyen to use early career award to investigate why diabetics have a hard time healing
Janice Lalikos, MD
Professor of Surgery
“Developing adipose tissue for reconstructive and therapeutic purposes”