Chong Wee Liew
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Obesity has been identified as a major risk factor for metabolic conditions including type-2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, hypertension, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, osteoarthritis, sleep apnea and certain type of cancer. Adipose tissues play critical causing as well as curing roles in this whole-body diseases. My laboratory is particularly interested to understand how different fat depots regulate glucose and energy homeostasis and how does each fat depots communicates with each others and with different cell types within the fat depots to achieve homeostasis. Understanding the molecular circuits could revolutionize our present understanding of the metabolic regulation and improve current treatment for metabolic diseases.
At a Glance
- Title Associate Professor
- College College of Medicine at Chicago - Basic Sciences
- Department Department of Physiology and Biophysics
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