Email Address:
MLiesa@mednet.ucla.edu
Work Phone Number:
+1-310-206-7319
https://medschool.ucla.edu/mitochondria-and-metabolic-disorders
Office Address:
CHS 27-200F, 650 Charles E. Young Dr.
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Affiliations |
Associate Professor In-Residence, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Hypertension |
Member, Molecular Biology Institute |
Marc Liesa-Roig, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in-residence in the Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. His laboratory seeks to identify mitochondrial mechanisms adapting and maladapting to metabolic diseases, with the goal to identify novel therapeutic targets. His research on mitochondria is focused in liver, pancreatic beta cells and brown adipose tissue. Dr. Liesa-Roig graduated with honors in Biochemistry at the Universitat de Barcelona (2003). He completed his doctoral studies late 2008 under the supervision of Prof. Antonio Zorzano at the IRB in Barcelona, examining the regulation of mitochondrial dynamics and Mfn2 in skeletal muscle and their role in insulin resistance. He then joined Boston University School Medicine as a post doctoral fellow in 2009, where he became an Instructor in 2013 and an Assistant Professor in 2015. Dr. Liesa-Roig is currently affiliated with the Molecular Biology Institute (MBI), Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Physiology (MCIP) interdepartmental programs and with the Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology at UCLA.