Dr. Roger Cone, University of Michigan, Life Sciences Institute
Mary Sue Coleman Director & Research, Professor, Univ. Michigan Life Sciences Institute
Tadataka Yamada Distinguished University Professor of Molecular & Integrative Physiology, U-M Medical School
Professor, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, LSA
Our Research
Our group works on understanding the central control of energy homeostasis. The laboratory concentrates on the central melanocortin system, a complex set of neural circuits they have demonstrated to regulate a variety of physiological processes important to energy storage.
The melanocortin system plays a critical role in the long-term regulation of body weight, and has profound implications for human health and disease — including in obesity and the wasting that occurs in cancer patients.
Read More: https://www.lsi.umich.edu/science/our-labs/cone-lab
