Diabetes affects nearly 24 million people in the U.S. and more than 200 million people worldwide today.  Type 2 diabetes is associated with obesity and insulin resistance, a condition where normal insulin action is blunted.

Try the Diabetes Risk Test to find out if you could be at risk for diabetes. Diabetes also increases the risk for heart disease. The Heart Disease Risk Assessment test, based on the Framingham Heart Study, predicts the chance of a heart attack over the next ten years.

Research Interests

Metabolic diseases, bioactive components, insulin signal transduction, mechanism of insulin resistance, gene expression and metabolism in animal models of obesity, type 2 diabetes and transgenic/knockout mice.