Research Interests
Protein phosphorylation, instrasteric regulation, peptide substrates and inhibitors, AMP activated protein kinase (AMPK)
Protein Phosphorylation
How protein phosphorylation regulates protein function, and how AMP activated protein kinase regulates metabolic and gene transcriptional responses to exercise and metabolic stress. Drug design to increase exercise capacity and reduce age onset diseases. The fat/vanity pill, exercise in a pill.
Obesity, diabetes endurance performance, drug design
Medline listings 354, Papers in Science 9, Nature 5, Nature Medicine, 2 and Cell Metabolism 3. Career citations (ISI), >29,000, average per paper, 81.55 and H-index = 90. Listed by ISI under highly cited in Biology & Biochemistry and listed under Essential Science Indicators.