William L Holland
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA
Biography
Will Holland completed his dissertation work with Scott Summers at the University of Utah in 2007. Together, they produced seminal work establishing the role of ceramide in insulin resistance. During his subsequent postdoctoral work with Philipp Scherer, he uncovered the roles of adiponectin and FGF21 as potent regulators of sphingolipid metabolism. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Touchstone Diabetes Center, focusing efforts on the roles of ceramide catabolic enzymes on glucose and lipid metabolism.
Abstract
Abstract : Ceramides and glucosylceramides in diabetes