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Aaron M. Cypess
Aaron M. Cypess is an American physician-scientist who leads the Translational Physiology Section at NIH's NIDDK and coauthored the 2009 study identifying brown fat in adult humans.
Charles Hollenberg
Charles H. Hollenberg (1930–2003) was a Canadian physician and medical researcher known for studying fat cells, who led the University of Toronto's medicine department and founded the Banting and Best Diabetes Centre.
Hei Sook Sul
Hei Sook Sul is a metabolic physiologist, professor and chair of Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology at UC Berkeley, known for discovering Pref-1 and AdPLA's roles in fat-cell biology.
Iichiro Shimomura
Iichiro Shimomura (下村 伊一郎) is a Japanese physician-scientist, professor of endocrinology and metabolism at The University of Osaka since 2004, whose department discovered the hormone adiponectin and helped establish the metabolic syndrome concept.
Jan Nedergaard
Jan Nedergaard (J. Nedergaard) is a professor emeritus at Stockholm University's Wenner-Gren Institute, known for research on brown adipose tissue, nonshivering thermogenesis, and UCP1, and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Lawrence Kazak
Lawrence Kazak is a Canadian researcher at McGill University's Goodman Cancer Institute who studies how fat cells generate heat, known for identifying a creatine-driven heat-producing pathway in thermogenic fat.
Ormond A. MacDougald
Ormond A. MacDougald is a physiologist studying adipose tissue biology at the University of Michigan, where he holds the John A. Faulkner Collegiate Chair of Physiology.
Peter Arner
Peter Arner, born 1944 in Sweden, is a physician-scientist and Professor Emeritus at Karolinska Institutet known for showing that adult fat-cell number is fixed, with about 10% renewed yearly.
Rana K. Gupta
Rana K. Gupta is an American adipocyte biologist who studies how fat-cell precursors are determined and how white adipose tissue expands in obesity, based at Duke's Molecular Physiology Institute.
Silvia Corvera
Silvia Corvera is a Mexican-trained physician-scientist and Professor of Molecular Medicine at UMass Chan Medical School, studying how adipose tissue development relates to insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes.
Yu‐Hua Tseng
Yu-Hua Tseng is a Senior Investigator at Joslin Diabetes Center and Harvard Medical School professor known for research on brown adipose tissue as a target for treating obesity and diabetes.
Yūji Matsuzawa
Yūji Matsuzawa (松澤佑次), born in 1941, is a Japanese endocrinologist at Osaka University who established the visceral fat syndrome concept and discovered the adipocyte hormone adiponectin in 1995.