El. knyga: Cellular Lipid in Health and Disease

Dr. James M. Ntambi is a Professor of Biochemistry and the Steenbock Professor of Nutritional Sciences, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as well as an Adjunct Professor of Biological Chemistry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. The focus of Dr. Ntambis research is to understand the genetic regulation of metabolism, adipocyte biology, and differentiation. He is specifically interested in the genetic basis of obesity, cardiovascular disease, insulin resistance, and diabetes and how dietary factors, hormones, and environmental factors influence these disease states. Recently, his team has genetically engineered mice that are born without the stearoyl-CoA desaturase gene-1, and found that these mice resist obesity, diabetes, and fatty liver disease. Most recent work has focused on the role monounsaturated fatty acids in diet induced de novo lipogenesis, obesity, and insulin resistance. Dr. Ntambi also conducts research on obesity and diabetes and other noncommunicable metabolic diseases in developing countries. Dr. Ntambi has published more than 230 scientific articles in such journals including Journal of Biological Chemistry, Journal of Lipid Research, PNAS, Science, Cell Metabolism, Hepatology journal, BBRC, JCI, BBA, PLoS, Journal of Nutrition, and American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism, among others.