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Preventive Pros
This podcast is brought to you by the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences at Keck School of Medicine of USC. Join us as we dive into the population and public health topics involved in our research and initiatives. Meet our researchers and learn first-hand what they are up to in the field, why this work is so important, and what the future may hold.
Preventive Pros
Obesity and Diabetes with Richard Watanabe, PhD
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Richard Watanabe, PhD is a professor of population and public health sciences in the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences and associate dean for health and population science programs at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. His primary research interest is in the pathophysiology and genetics of type 2 diabetes mellitus. His research program focuses on genetics, pathophysiology (and the correlation with genetics), and mathematical modeling of physiologic systems. In the area of complex disease genetics, he is focusing on both positional cloning of susceptibility genes for type 2 diabetes and diabetes-related traits and understanding the gene-phenotype relationships and how they are impacted by environmental exposures.
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