The Medina received a 2-year R56 from the NIH entitled, "TMEM55B as a molecular determinant of NAFLD" based on the tremendous efforts by Yuanyuan and her students!
Yuqing (Eliza) Zhang joins the Medina lab as the first Master's student through the UC Berkeley Metabolic Biology graduate group.
https://nst.berkeley.edu/graduate-programs/metabolic-biology
I'm pleased to announce the publication of "Cholesterol and PI(4,5)P2 in Vital Biological Functions: From Coexistence to Crosstalk" edited by Avia Rosenhouse-Dantsker. Yuanyuan and I contributed a chapter entitled, "Mechanism of the regulation of plasma cholesterol levels by PI(4,5)P2".
The Medina and Oni-Orisan laboratories were awarded a Transformative Integrated Research Project entitled, "Development of a precision medicine tool to predict dysglycemic effects of statin treatment" through the George and Judy Marcus Innovation Fund.
Tony's manuscript entitled, "Undifferentiated induced pluripotent stem cells as a genetic model for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease" has been accepted for publication at Cellular and Molecular Gastreoenterology and Hepatology! This work describes the very surprising finding that even in their…
