User:Egrissett/Karen Teff

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Karen Teff is an American biologist and geneticist. She received her education in Canada and has since been working in the United States. Teff has spent most of her career studying the effects of diabetes and other related diseases on humans.

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"Karen Teff is most notable for a paper on the effects of fructose on triglycerides in women. She is also known for a paper concerning the effects of carbohydrate-heavy breakfasts on satiety. " copied from Karen Teff

Career:
Teff received her undergraduate degree in nutrition at McGill University working under Dr. Gloria Tannenbaum at the Children's Hospital of Montreal. She later earned her Ph.D. from McGill University in 1988 under Dr. Simon Young.
 * Member, Monell Chemical Senses Center (1996-2004, 2006-2013)
 * Ph.D., McGill University (1988)
 * Director of translational research at University of Pennsylvania Diabetes Research Center (2006-2013)
 * Director of clinical and translational Research Center at University of Pennsylvania (2011-2013)
 * Current: Program director for division of diabetes, endocrinology, and metabolic diseases at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) for the NIH

She was a member of the Monell Chemical Senses Center for fifteen years. She worked for the University of Pennsylvania as the director of translational research for the university Diabetes Research Center from 2006-2013 as well as the director of clinical and translational research from 2011-2013. Teff is currently the program director for the division of diabetes, endocrinology, and metabolic diseases at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) for the NIH).

Research:
Karen Teff is currently working at the NIDDK studying how bariatric surgery effects diabetes and diabetes-related diseases. She was previously the principal investigator of a clinical trial at the University of Pennsylvania Institute for diabetes, obesity, and metabolism, studying nervous system anti-inflammatory pathways in connection to obesity and diabetes. Teff's most recent publication in the America Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism focused on how the parasympathetic nervous system contributes to an increase in insulin secretion in patients with above average blood insulin levels. Karen Teff is most notable for a paper on the effects of fructose on triglycerides and obesity in women. She is also known for a paper concerning the effects of carbohydrate-heavy breakfasts on satiety.