Phill White
Principal Investigator
Assistant Professor in Medicine
Assistant Research Professor in Pharmacology and Cancer Biology
Member of Duke Molecular Physiology Institute
Rob McGarrah
Principal Investigator
Associate Professor of Medicine
Member of Duke Molecular Physiology Institute

SUMMARY

Phillip White is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine and Co-Leads the White-McGarrah Lab with Robert McGarrah. Projects in the White-McGarrah Lab relate to the integrative physiology of metabolism with an emphasis on liver and heart function and the metabolic crosstalk that exists between these two vital organs.

PhD, Université Laval, Québec City, Canada

Robert McGarrah is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine and Co-Leads the White-McGarrah Lab with Phillip White, PhD. Projects in the White-McGarrah Lab relate to the integrative physiology of metabolism with an emphasis on liver and heart function and the metabolic crosstalk that exists between these two vital organs.

MD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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RESEARCH

Phill and James
NAFLD Research

Current Liver Related Projects

Mechanisms of hepatic lipogenesis and gluconeogenesis

Determinants of NAFLD status in Bariatric Surgery Patients

Defining the impact of heart failure on liver metabolism

Heart Research

Current Heart Related Projects

Metabolic determinants of cardiac function

Role of liver in heart failure pathogenesis

Functional significance of acylcarnitine associations with cardiac outcomes