Charles Francis Burant

Charles Francis Burant is a Professor of Internal Medicine and Molecular and Integrative Physiology at the University of Michigan Medical School. He holds the Robert C. and Veronica Atkins Professorship of Metabolism and serves as Director of the A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute. His roles include leading translational research programs and directing the Michigan Metabolomics Core, which supports metabolite profiling research.

• Education: MD and PhD from the Medical University of South Carolina (1987), with prior degrees from the University of Wisconsin.

Research focuses on metabolism’s interplay with genetics and environment in insulin resistance, obesity, and β-cell failure. Techniques include metabolomics, transcriptomics, and epigenetics to study cardiometabolic diseases. Recent publications emphasize causal metabolite-disease links, multi-omics integration, and metabolic pathways in gliomas.

Scientific contributions include over 150 peer-reviewed articles, with a focus on exercise-induced multi-omic adaptations, lipidomics in disease, and metabolic drug mechanisms. Awards and grants are implied by his leadership roles but not explicitly listed here.

Labs/Teams: Directorships in Taubman Institute and Michigan Metabolomics Core highlight his role in fostering collaborative research environments.