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Gökhan S Hotamisligil
Primary Faculty

Gökhan S Hotamisligil

James Stevens Simmons Professor of Genetics and Metabolism

Molecular Metabolism, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Departments

Department of Molecular Metabolism

Department of Nutrition

Other Positions

Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Nutrition

Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Director, Center on Causes and Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease

Molecular Metabolism, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Biography

The Hotamışlıgil Lab studies innate adaptive pathways involved in metabolic health and diseases such as obesity, diabetes, hepatosteosis, lung and cardiovascular diseases. For the past 30 years, the lab has made important contributions to the field of “immunometabolism” or “metaflammation” studying the interactions between metabolic and immune responses as critical drivers of numerous chronic diseases. In the last decade, the lab has approached immunometabolism and homeostasis in two broad paths: organelle homeostasis and substrate metabolism in health and disease. Using biochemical, genetic, and physiological studies, we aim to find novel pathways and preventive, therapeutic solutions to today’s greatest threats to global human health such as obesity- and age-related chronic diseases.

Education and Training

  • PhD, Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
    Harvard Medical School
  • MD, Medicine
    Ankara University Medical School

Publications