Leadership

DIRECTORS:

Alan Saltiel, PhD
DRC Director
Institute for Diabetes & Metabolic Health
Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology
UC San Diego
Phone 858-534-5953
asaltiel@ucsd.edu

Peter Tontonoz, MD, PhD
DRC Co-Director
Professor of Pathology and
Laboratory Medicine
UC Los Angeles
Phone 310-794-7121
ptontonoz@mednet.ucla.edu

CORE DIRECTORS:

Pamela L. Mellon, PhD

Core Director, Core A

The Transgenic and Knock-Out Mouse Core

Distinguished Professor, Vice Chair for Research

Department of Reproductive Medicine

UC San Diego

Phone 858-534-1312

pmellon@ucsd.edu


Andrea L. Hevener, PhD

Core Director, Core B 

Metabolic & Molecular Physiology Core

Professor of Medicine

Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Hypertension

UC Los Angeles

Phone 310-267-5884

ahevener@mednet.ucla.edu


Orian Shirihai, MD, PhD

Core Co-Director, Core B 

Metabolic & Molecular Physiology Core

Professor of Medicine

Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Hypertension 

UC Los Angeles

Phone 310-825-863

ooshirihai@mednet.ucla.edu


Sven Heinz, Ph.D.

Core Director, Core C

Genomics & Epigenetics Core

Assistant Professor In Residence of Medicine

UC San Diego Institute for Genomic Medicine



Kristen Jepsen, PhD

Core C

Genomics & Epigenetics Core

Director, IGM Genomics Center

UC San Diego

Phone 858-822-2754

kjepsen@ucsd.edu

Mark Goodarzi, MD, PhD

Core Co-Director, Core D 

Human Genetics Core

and Program Director

Enrichment Program 

Professor of Medicine 

Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Phone 310-423-3074 Mark.Goodarzi@cshs.org

Jerome I. Rotter, MD
Core Director, Core D
Human Genetics Core
Director, Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences
LA BioMed
Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics, Medicine and Human Genetics
UC Los Angeles
Phone 310-974-9501
jrotter@labiomed.org