Faculty Biography

Weimin He earned a Bachelor of Medicine from Zhenjiang Medical College, Zhengjiang, and a Master of Medicine in oncology from Sun Yat-Sen University School of Medicine, Guangzhou, China, and his Ph.D. in molecular and cellular biology from University of Maryland at Baltimore, Maryland. Before joining the Institute of Biosciences and Technology in 2005, Dr. He held post-doctoral positions in the Gene Expression Laboratory, Howard Hughes Medical Insitute/The Salk Institute and in the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of California at San Diego. Both institutions are located in La Jolla, California. At IBT he is an assistant professor in the Center for Environmental and Genetic Medicine.

Research interests of Weimin He, Ph.D. --- The function of PPAR? in the regulation of adipogenesis, lipogenesis, lipid and glucose homeostasis and insulin sensitivity in physiological condition and the roles of PPAR in the occurrence of obesity, inflammation, obesity, diabetes, and atherosclerosis in pathological situation using mouse models of tissue-specific knockout of PPAR?.

Dr. He is also interested in studying the pleotropic roles of PPAR? in metabolism as well as other aspects of biological processes such as osteoporosis, cardiac and renal function and reproduction by generation and characterization of more tissue-specific PPAR? knockout mouse models. In addition, Dr. He is working on elucidating the mechanism by which estrogen receptor sensitizes insulin action in females.

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