Alli Antar - Professional Profile & Bio at Ziggs

Biography

A trained biomedical researcher, Alli Antar, Ph.D. is currently employed by Baylor College of Medicine, where her work complements her graduate studies on murine physiology and lipid metabolism. Her previous publications have focused on metabolic syndrome and atherogenesis in obese, hyperlipidemic mice as well as on the developmental expression of 11beta-HSD1 in the murine thymus. Dr. Alli Antar is a member of the American Diabetes Association, the American Heart Association, the Obesity Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Endocrine Society, and the American Physiological Society. Alli Antar received her Ph.D. from the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics at Vanderbilt University. While a graduate student at Vanderbilt, Alli Antar was nominated for and joined the scientific honor society Sigma Xi and received a Lupus Foundation of America Student Stipend Award and the VUMC-NIH/CHHD Reproductive Biology Pre-doctoral Training Grant Award.