Martin Myers

Office Room:
6317
Office Building:
Brehm Tower
Person Type: 
Core Faculty
Subdivision:
Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
Sensory Neuroscience
Computational Neuroscience
Biography/Resume: 

MD, PhD, Harvard University

Professor of Internal Medicine and Molecular & Integrative Physiology

The central focus of this laboratory is on the biology of the hormone, leptin. The laboratory investigates the cellular and neural mechanisms by which leptin acts and how each of these mechanisms modulates processes involved in the development of diabetes and the metabolic syndrome.