Our Team
Silvia Corvera, MD
Principal Investigator
Endowed Chair in Diabetes Research,
Professor, Program in Molecular Medicine, UMass Chan
Director, Clinical Translational Research Pathway,
T.H. Chan School of Medicine
Dr. Corvera's studies focus on human adipose tissue development and its relationship to whole-body insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes.
She received her MD and MSc in Molecular Biology at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico and was awarded a Fogarty International Fellowship to conduct postdoctoral studies in the United States.
Dr. Corvera was a faculty member in the Department of Pathology at the University of Pennsylvania before joining the newly formed Program in Molecular Medicine at UMass Chan Medical School.
Mai Ceesay
PhD Candidate,
Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Anand Desai
Research Associate
Tiffany DeSouza
Research Associate
Zinger Yang Loureiro
PhD Candidate
Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Brian Wauford
PhD Candidate
Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Qin Yang
PhD Candidate
Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Rachel Ziegler
Research Associate
Collaborators
Tammy Nguyen, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Surgery,
Investigator, Diabetes Center of Excellence
Janice Lalikos, MD
Professor of Surgery
“Developing adipose tissue for reconstructive and therapeutic purposes”