News

Student Ryan Rebernick awarded Dean’s Award for Research Excellence

Speliotes Distinguished Faculty Lectureship in Biomedical Research Award – December 2025

Hussein talk at AASLD – November 2025

Allred & Speliotes awarded RO1 – September 2025

Speliotes talk: Human Genetics Guides Precision Medicine for Obesity and MASLD. SingHealth Duke-NUS Scientific Congress 2025, Singapore – September 2025

Ponnandy talk at MASH Pathogenesis and Therapeutic Approaches, Banff, Canada – February 2025

Collaborator Allred talks at ADA – June 2024

Scientist Oliveri talks at ADA – June 2024

Undergraduate researcher Hussein awarded INSPIRE certificate – June 2024

Congrats to undergraduate researcher Rawdat Hussein for graduating – May 2024

Collaborator Saslow awarded R03

Collaborator Emmer awarded R01

Mentee Cushing-Damm awarded K08

Mentee Brady awarded R03

Lab welcomes Jeremy Chen

Lab welcomes Tiffany Russell

Graduate student Raut talks at AASLD – November 2023

Comprehensive genetic study of the insulin resistance marker TG:HDL-C in the UK Biobank

Genome-wide association meta-analysis identifies 17 loci associated with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

Lab welcomes Lishi Yin

Lab welcomes Ahram Irshaid

Lab welcomes Yousif Alyousifi

Lab welcomes Emily Pogson

Speliotes gets MBioFAR Award – December 2022

Lab welcomes Naz Fatima 

Mentee Chen talks at AASLD – November 2022

Scientist Du awarded platform talk AND best liver meeting at AASLD – November 2022

Du talk at ASHG – October 2022

Speliotes elected Chair of the Ethics Committee, and Fellow of the AASLD – October 2022

Lab welcomes Rawdat Hussain

Lab welcomes Chinmay Raut

Mentee Chen got K08 – July 2022

Lab welcomes Colby Cheshire

Congrats to Julia, Nader, Maurice for graduating – June 2022

Lab welcomes Prabhu Ponnandy

Speliotes elected treasurer ASCI April 2022

Speliotes promoted to full Professor in May 2021

Congrats to Dr. Kelly Cushing for presenting her abstract at the Parallel oral presentation at AASLD 2021 

AASLD 2021 Presidential Poster of Distinction awarded to Xiaomeng Du

Perturbation of TM6SF2 Expression Alters Lipid Metabolism in a Human Liver Cell Line

Lab welcomes Antonino Oliveri

Allele Specific Variation at APOE Increases Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Obesity but Decreases Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease and Myocardial Infarction

Genome-wide association study of serum liver enzymes implicates diverse metabolic and liver pathology

A Noncoding Variant Near PPP1R3B Promotes Liver Glycogen Storage and MetS, but Protects Against Myocardial Infarction

Congrats to Annapurna Kuppa, Angel Ka Yan Chu, and Dr. Brian Halligan for presenting their projects at the Concurrent Thematic Mini-Symposium at the 2021 Internal Medicine Symposium

Congrats to Yash Hedge for graduating and matching in MSU College of Human Medicine

Congrats to Dan Kim for graduating and matching at Stanford Medicine

Lab welcomes LC Stetson

Congrats to Rotation student Angel Ka Yan Chu for finishing her MS in bioinformatics!

Insulin Resistance Exacerbates Genetic Predisposition to Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Individuals Without Diabetes

Body Composition and Genetic Lipodystrophy Risk Score Associate With Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Liver Fibrosis

Genetic variants that associate with cirrhosis have pleiotropic effects on human traits

Mentee Chen Awarded CTORA award from AASLD

Mentee Brady awarded K08 from NIH

Mentee Maguire awarded K08 from NIH

Mentee Chen receives GI fellow research award

Mentee Daniel Kim Receives Dean’s Award for Medical Student Research

Lab welcomes Asmita Pant

Speliotes Awarded Endowed Professorship

Lab welcomes Annapurna Kuppa

New Guidelines on Lipid Lowering Medications in Liver Disease 

Largest GWAS of Diverticular Disease Reveals Links to  Adhesion Biology

Worsening Beta Cell Response and Insulin Resistance in Early Adulthood Predict Diabetes in NAFLD

Speliotes Appointed as the Keith Henle MD Professor of Gastroenterology

Exome Study of Body Mass Index Reveals Link to Energy Intake and Expenditure.

 Exome Study of Serum Lipids Reveals Defects in Triglyceride Export From Liver to Fatty Liver 

Increasing BMI Trajectories in Young Adulthood Predict NAFLD 

Obesity Genetics and Epigenetics Reviewed 

Congratulations to Post Doc Bratati Kahali Appointed to Assistant Professor India Institute of Science

Speliotes Promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure

Speliotes Awarded 2016 Dean’s Award for Basic Science Research

Largest GWAS for BMI Reveals Links to Brain and Neuronal Processes

Largest GWAS for Waist to Hip Ratio Reveals Links to Adipose Tissue, Mesodermal Development, Growth, and Glucocorticoid Signaling

Largest GWAS for Height Reveals New Biology Related to Human Skeletal Growth

Congratulations to Student Yindra Puentes now MCAT Product Manager

Ying Guan Now a Registered Dietitian

Speliotes Awarded 2012 Doris Duke Award

Speliotes Receives Appointment to University of Michigan Biological Sciences Scholars Program

New Gene Sites Affecting Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) Discovered