Liver-Related Work

My laboratory studies the regulation of mitochondrial metabolism and bioenergetics by lysine acetylation, a nutrient-derived post-translational modification. We are primarily interested in how the mitochondrial lysine acetyltransferase protein, GCN5L1, regulates the activity of fatty acid oxidation and glucose/pyurvate oxidation enzymes in the mitochondria. Our work is currently funded by an R01 award from the NIH, and an Innovative Basic Science award from the American Diabetes Association.

Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology