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”

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,
Investigator, Diabetes Center of Excellence

“Defining pathways of bone marrow hematopoietic and mesenchymal progenitor cell development and impact on diabetic comorbidities”

Janice Lalikos, MD

Professor of Surgery

“Developing adipose tissue for reconstructive and therapeutic purposes”