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Scott Summers is a Professor and Chair of Nutrition and Integrative Physiology at the University of Utah, with an additional appointment as Adjunct Professor of Biochemistry. He co-directs the Diabetes and Metabolism Research Center, focusing on ceramide regulation in metabolic diseases, diabetes, insulin resistance, and lipotoxicity.
- Education: B.S. from Indiana University, Ph.D. from Southern Illinois University.
- Research: His laboratory investigates ceramides as pivotal lipotoxic mediators in metabolic pathologies, including diabetes, fatty liver disease, and cardiovascular complications. Key work includes pharmacological and genetic strategies to block ceramide accumulation in rodents, improving insulin sensitivity.
Research Trends: Recent publications emphasize ceramides’ roles in obesity-related cancers, neurodegenerative stroke outcomes, and steatohepatitis. His team explores sphingolipid dynamics, bile acid metabolism, and mitochondrial dysfunction across diseases like diabetes, Alzheimer’s, and hepatocellular carcinoma.
Labs & Teams: Summers leads the Diabetes and Metabolism Research Center, collaborating on interdisciplinary studies involving lipidomics, machine learning, and genetic analyses. His lab’s work spans rodent models, human clinical trials, and computational approaches to identify biomarkers like ceramide ratios for cardiometabolic risk.
