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Frankie Heyward is starting his own lab in Dallas, Texas! Frankie is an Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine and Neuroscience at UT Southwestern Medical Center, and he is joining the Center for Hypothalamic Research. Best wishes, Frankie!

We are delighted to welcome our newest team member, Yangmian Yuan, who joins us as a postdoctoral research fellow. Yangmian recently earned her PhD from the College of Life Sciences at Wuhan University, China, with a dissertation focusing on adipose tissue energy metabolism.

Evan wrote a comprehensive review article on interferon regulatory factors (IRFs) in metabolism, with help from Zunair Ahmad and Wahab Kahloan. It just came out in Nature Reviews Endocrinology.

Congratulations to Shuai Yan — his paper was just published in Nature Communications. Shuai showed that IRF3 causes insulin resistance in adipocytes independent of any effect on body weight. The mechanism is via induction of an enzyme called AIG1, which encodes a hydrolase that destroys insulin...

Ruth-Alma Turkson-Ocran, PhD, MPH, RN, FNP-BC was recognized for Excellence in Research at the 36th Annual Excellence in Nursing Awards held by the New England Regional Black Nurses Association (NERBNA). NERBNA is part of a national effort to unify, educate, and increase the number of African...