Women in Research #LINO23: Lianna Wat

Published on August 1, 2023

Lianna from Canada is a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University, USA. Maintaining the balance between energy storage and usage is crucial to survival and health. While many things control metabolism and the development of metabolic diseases such as type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease, one major regulator is biological sex. Lianna leverages the study of these male-female differences to discover novel metabolic hormones and genes that control how women and men regulate their metabolism differently. This allows discoveries of new biology and supports the development of new and more effective therapeutics to treat metabolic diseases in all individuals.

Image courtesy of Lianna Wat. 

Lianna participated in the 72nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting. Learn more about her, her career and her work in her Women in Resarch interview on our blog. 

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