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We apply mass spectrometry and biochemical approaches to understand how metabolites regulate cellular function in
pre-clinical models of health and disease.

Our goal is to leverage these newfound mechanisms to develop new therapies for metabolic, inflammatory, and metastatic diseases.

October 2019 - Narek was awarded a T32 post-doctoral fellowship. Congratulations Narek!

August 2019 - Narek and Martha join the lab, just in time for cysteine proteomics bootcamp.

June 2019 - Haopeng was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship from the National Cancer Center. Congratulations Haopeng!

May 2019 - Mei Ying Ng joins us as a PhD student from NUS, welcome!

February 2019 -  Eddie Nesmith joins us from the MCB program at Harvard, welcome!

​January 2019 - Our review on metabolic adaptation and maladaptation in adipose tissue is out in Nature Metabolism.

November 2018 - Our review on mechanisms of adipose tissue thermogenesis is out in Cell Metabolism!
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July 2018 - Our paper on the role of succinate in adipose tissue thermogenesis is out in Nature with a News & Views by Joshua Rabinowitz!

June 2018 - Haopeng joins us from GA Tech to develop new MS methods.
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April 2018 -  Our collaboration on itaconate was just published in Nature!
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​March 2018 - Sally was awarded a Novo Nordisk postdoctoral fellowship. Congratulations Sally!

March 2018 - Anita joined the lab as our first BBS PhD student, welcome!

January 2018 - Ed is giving a talk at the Keystone meeting on bioenergetics and metabolic disease

November 2017 - Weihai joined that lab as our first PhD student, welcome!
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