Obesity and Diabetes with Richard Watanabe, PhD

Richard Watanabe, PhD is a professor of population and public health sciences in the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences and associate dean for health and population science programs at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. His primary research interest is in the pathophysiology and genetics of type 2 diabetes mellitus. His research program focuses on genetics, pathophysiology (and the correlation with genetics), and mathematical modeling of physiologic systems. In the area of complex disease genetics, he is focusing on both positional cloning of susceptibility genes for type 2 diabetes and diabetes-related traits and understanding the gene-phenotype relationships and how they are impacted by environmental exposures.

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