Alumni
A look at some of our lab members through the years, and what they’re doing now
Name
Training Period
Current Position
Jennifer Lee, PhD
2013-2017: Postdoctoral Research Fellow
2017-2022: Instructor, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Principal Investigator. Scientist II, Human Nutrition Research Center for Aging.
Assistant Professor, Tufts University
Pedro Moraes-Vieira, PhD
2011-2016
Associate Professor of Immunology, Department of Genetic, Evolution and Bioagents, Institute of Biology, University of Campinas
Mark M. Yore, PhD
2011-2015
Director, Corporate Development and Investor Relations, Jounce Therapeutics, Cambridge, MA
Tetsuya Hosooka, MD, PhD
2008-2010
Associate Professor, Department of Nutrition and Life Sciences, School of Food and Nutritional Sciences, and Graduate School of Integrated Pharmaceutical and Nutritional Sciences, University of Shizuoka, Shizouka, Japan
Visiting Associate Professor, Division of Diabetes and Endocrinology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan
Mark Herman, MD
2004-2011
Associate Professor and Chief, Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
Thierry Alquier, PhD
2003-2006
Associate Professor, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada
Scientific Director, Metabolic phenotyping core facility, University of Montreal Research Center
Co-director and member, Montreal Diabetes Research Center
Qin Yang, MD, PhD
2002-2007: Postdoctoral Research Fellow
2009-2012: Clinical and Research Endocrine Fellow
2012-2014: Instructor/Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Associate Professor of Medicine, Physiology and Biophysics
Interim Chief, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism; Medical Director, UC Irvine Diabetes Center; Director, Endocrinology Fellowship Program, University of California Irvine
Young-Bum Kim, PhD
1996-2004
Professor, Harvard Medical School, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Juleen Zierath, PhD
1995-1996
Professor, Department of Physiology, Karolinska Research Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Professor, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Past Chair, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Selection Committee. Continues to serve on the Nobel Committee.
Former Editor in Chief, Diabetologia.
Former President, European Association for the Study of Diabetes.
E. Dale Abel, MD, DPhil
1992-1995
Chair, Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine
Executive Medical Director, Department of Medicine at UCLA Health, Los Angeles, CA
Former President of the Endocrine Society
Luigi Gnudi, MD, PhD
1992-1995
Professor of Diabetes and Metabolic Medicine
Consultant Physician in Diabetes and Endocrinology, at Guy’s and St. Thomas Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in London.
Head, Unit for Metabolic Medicine, School of Cardiovascular Medicine & Science at King’s College, London, England
Peter R. Shepherd, PhD
1990-1992
Professor of Cell Signalling, Molecular Medicine and Pathology
Honorary Professor Auckland Cancer Society Research Center, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Former Editor in Chief, Biochemistry Journal, London.
Elected Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences in New Zealand