Jean Schaffer

Professor in the Department of Molecular Metabolism

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

Departments

Department of Molecular Metabolism

Other Positions

Ory Family Professor of Medicine

;Medicine-Beth Israel Deaconess, Harvard Medical School

Biography

The Association Between C24:0/C16:0 Ceramide Ratio and Cardiorespiratory Fitness is Robust to Effect Modifications by Age and Sex.

Zatloukal J, Zylla S, Markus MRP, Ewert R, Gläser S, Völzke H, Albrecht D, Friedrich N, Nauck M, Peterson LR, Jiang X, Schaffer JE, Felix SB, Dörr M, Bahls M, Gross S, Zatloukal J, Zylla S, Markus MRP, Ewert R, Gläser S, Völzke H, Albrecht D, Friedrich N, Nauck M, Peterson LR, Jiang X, Schaffer JE, Felix SB, Dörr M, Bahls M, Gross S, Zatloukal J, Zylla S, Markus MRP, Ewert R, Gläser S, Völzke H, Albrecht D, Friedrich N, Nauck M, Peterson LR, Jiang X, Schaffer JE, Felix SB, Dörr M, Bahls M, Gross S. Adv Biol (Weinh) 2024 04
Sustained hyperglycemia specifically targets translation of mRNAs for insulin secretion.

Cheruiyot A, Hollister-Lock J, Sullivan B, Pan H, Dreyfuss JM, Bonner-Weir S, Schaffer JE. J Clin Invest 2023 Nov 30
Sustained hyperglycemia specifically targets translation of mRNAs for insulin secretion.

Cheruiyot A, Hollister-Lock J, Sullivan B, Pan H, Dreyfuss JM, Bonner-Weir S, Schaffer JE. bioRxiv 2023 Sep 29
Previously unknown pathway for lipid biosynthesis discovered.

Schaffer JE. Nature 2023
A pentasaccharide for monitoring pharmacodynamic response to gene therapy in GM1 gangliosidosis.

Kell P, Sidhu R, Qian M, Mishra S, Nicoli ER, D'Souza P, Tifft CJ, Gross AL, Gray-Edwards HL, Martin DR, Sena-Esteves M, Dietzen DJ, Singh M, Luo J, Schaffer JE, Ory DS, Jiang X. EBioMedicine 2023

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