Wednesday, September 02, 2020
10:30 AM
- 11:30 AM
Presenter: Greg Morton, PhD
Organization: University of Washington (UW) Medicine Diabetes Institute
Bio: Dr. Morton is a Research Professor of Medicine at the UW Medicine Diabetes Institute. He received his PhD at Deakin University, Australia, under the supervision of Dr. Greg Collier and subsequently completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in the laboratory of Dr. Michael Schwartz within the Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition at the University of Washington, Seattle.
His work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and other sources, and focuses on the mechanisms whereby the brain regulates energy balance and glucose metabolism and how defects in this control system contribute to the development of obesity, insulin resistance and diabetes.
In addition, Dr. Morton is Director of the UW Medicine Energy Balance Core, co-Director of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases-funded Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism Training Grant and serves on several local and national committees.
Website: https://uwmdi.org/faculty/gregory-j-morton/
Lab: https://uwmdi.org/labs/morton-laboratory/
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