Affiliation: University of California Davis School of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine

Dr. John Yoon's laboratory is interested in the control of energy balance and thermogenesis and how it relates to human diseases.   Ongoing work utilizes a combination of experimental approaches to investigate the roles of several proteins the lab has identified as controlling energy balance.  A long-term goal is to find therapeutic agents for human disorders associated with abnormally regulated energy balance.  A related area of interest is the contribution of mitochondrial defects and inflammatory processes to the development of metabolic disease.