Andrew C Shin
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA
Biography
Andrew C. Shin received PhD in Neuroscience at Michigan State University in 2008. Thereafter, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Pennington Biomedical Research Center and at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He was promoted to a junior faculty at Mount Sinai in 2013. Dr. Shin is mainly interested in studying how brain controls acute nutrient metabolism as well as long-term energy homeostasis using genetic, molecular, surgical, and integrative physiological approaches. He has published more than 25 papers in peer-reviewed journals like Cell Metabolism, Endocrinology, Neuroscience, and International Journal of Obesity.
Abstract
Abstract : Insulin action in the brain regulates branched-chain amino acid (BCAA) metabolism