Yunbo Ke
University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Biography
Yunbo Ke received his PhD in Biochemistry from Ohio State University in 1995. He is a research assistant professor at University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Ke has studied function of p21 activated kinase related to cardiovascular diseases since joining Department of Physiology and Biophysics at UIC in 1998. The work by Dr. Ke and his colleagues has defined Pak1 as a key signaling molecule that regulates cardiac excitation, contraction, hypertrophy, arrhythmia and heart failure. Function of Pak1 related to metabolism and obesity is his current research direction.
Abstract
Abstract : Gender specific regulation of adiposity by p21 activated kinase-1