SCOTT SUMMERS, PhD

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  • Co-Director , Diabetes & Metabolism Research Center
  • Department Chair , Nutrition & Integrative Physiology
  • Professor , Nutrition & Integrative Physiology
  • Distinguished Professor , Nutrition & Integrative Physiology

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Research Statement

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Professor Summers had been a dominant voice advancing the idea that sphingolipids such as ceramide, which are produced by over-nutrition and inflammation, contribute to insulin resistance and metabolic disease. The opinion was initially controversial, and few publications other than his appeared on the topic. Nonetheless, the data were robust and the therapeutic potential of the pathway obvious. His work has appeared in the highest impact journals (e.g. Nature Medicine, Cell Metabolism, Journal of Clinical Investigation and others) and have been cited over 8000 times. He has given over 100 presentations in at least 20 different countries, including keynote talks in Japan, Finland and the USA, and received over 10 million dollars in research grant support. His work has influenced the directions of new and established researchers and the number of publications containing the words ceramide and insulin has risen exponentially. His current group continues to explore the therapeutic potential of the pathway with an eye towards developing new therapies to treat diabetes and metabolic disease.

  • (2017) Brigham Young University, Provo, UT. Presentation, Presented, 09/2017.
  • (2016) Molecular Medicine of Sphingolipids, French Lick, IN. Presentation, Presented, 09/2016.
  • (2016) Danish Diabetes Academy, Denmark. Presentation, Presented, 09/2016.
  • (2015) Pfizer Inc., Cambridge, MA. Presentation, Presented, 12/2015.
  • (2015) Cornell University Medical School, New York. Presentation, Presented, 12/2015.
  • (2015) University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT. Presentation, Presented, 12/2015.
  • (2015) University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia. Presentation, Presented, 11/2015.
  • (2015) Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Palo Alto, CA. Presentation, Presented, 10/2015.
  • (2015) Monash University, Melbourne, VIC. Presentation, Presented, 09/2015.
  • (2015) Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS. Presentation, Presented, 02/2015.
  • (2008) Diabetes Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY. Other, Presented, 03/17/2008.
  • (2008) Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University System, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Other, Presented, 01/17/2008.
  • (2007) Obesity and Nutrition Research Center, University of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Other, Presented, 12/13/2007.
  • (2007) Mexican Society of Endocrinology, Aguascalientes City, Mexico. Other, Presented, 11/28/2007.
  • (2007) Division of Preventive Medicine & Nutrition, Columbia University School of Medicine, New York, NY. Other, Presented, 09/15/2007.
  • (2007) Department of Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia. Other, Presented, 09/13/2007.
  • (2007) Astra Zeneca, Gothenburg, Sweden. Other, Presented, 09/01/2007.
  • (2007) PhD School of Molecular Metabolism, Odense, Denmark. Other, Presented, 09/01/2007.
  • (2007) FASEB Summer Conference, Glucose Transporter Biology, Snowmass, Colorado. Other, Presented, 08/06/2007.
  • (2007) Genzyme, Boston, Massachussetts. Other, Presented, 07/22/2007.
  • (2007) Metabolic Diseases Drug Discovery Summit, La Jolla, CA. Other, Presented, 07/06/2007.
  • (2007) American Diabetes Association, Chicago, Illinois. Other, Presented, 06/23/2007.
  • (2007) International Symposium on Insulin Receptors and Insulin Action, Stockholm, Sweden. Other, Presented, 05/04/2007.
  • (2007) Stock Obesity Conference, Bangkok, Thailand. Other, Presented, 03/30/2007.
  • (2007) Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania. Other, Presented, 02/15/2007.
  • (2006) Center for Diabetes Research, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN. Other, Presented, 12/15/2006.
  • (2006) Nestle Nutrition Conference, Mexico City, Mexico. Other, Presented, 11/09/2006.
  • (2006) Amgen-San Francisco, San Francisco, California. Other, Presented, 10/13/2006.
  • (2006) Gordon Conference, Glycolipid and Sphingolipid Biology, Ventura, CA. Other, Presented, 01/05/2006.
  • (2005) Eli Lilly Pharmaceuticals, Indianapolis, Indiana. Other, Presented, 05/13/2005.
  • (2005) Charleston Ceramide Conference, Charleston, South Carolina. Other, Presented, 03/11/2005.
  • (2005) Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University - Pueblo, Pueblo, Colorado. Other, Presented, 03/07/2005.
  • (2004) Eli Lilly Pharmaceuticals, Indianapolis, Indiana. Other, Presented, 09/05/2004.
  • (2003) Department of Biochemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah. Other, Presented, 09/01/2003.
  • (2003) FASEB Summer Conference, Glucose Transporter Biology, Snowmass, Colorado. Other, Presented, 08/04/2003.
  • (2003) Charleston Ceramide Conference, Como, Italy. Other, Presented, 06/12/2003.
  • (2002) REU Summer Research Program, Colorado State University. Other, Presented, 08/07/2002.
  • (2002) Department of Animal Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO. Other, Presented, 03/01/2002.
  • (2002) Department of Biology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado. Other, Presented, 03/01/2002.
  • (2002) Department of Nutrition, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Other, Presented, 02/25/2002.
  • (2002) Center for Nutrition Research, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. Other, Presented, 02/15/2002.
  • (2002) Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Kansas. Other, Presented, 02/02/2002.
  • (2002) Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University Medical School, Durham, North Carolina. Other, Presented, 02/01/2002.
  • (2002) Gordon Conference, Glycolipid and Sphingolipid Biology, Ventura, California. Other, Presented, 01/10/2002.
  • (2001) First Bi-Annual Charleston Ceramide Conference, Charleston, South Carolina. Other, Presented, 11/11/2001.
  • (2001) Clinical Scholar's Meeting, Aspen, Colorado. Other, Presented, 09/06/2001.
  • (2001) Department of Pathology, Colorado State University. Other, Presented, 04/01/2001.
  • (2000) Department of Endocrinology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. Other, Presented, 12/01/2000.
  • (2000) Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Wyoming, September, 1999. Other, Presented, 09/01/2000.
  • (1999) Center for Nutrition Research, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. Other, Presented, 09/01/1999.
  • (1999) FASEB Summer Conference on Glucose Transporter Biology, Snowmass, Colorado. Other, Presented, 07/02/1999.
  • (1999) The Picower Institute for Medical Research, Long Island, NY. Other, Presented, 06/15/1999.
  • (1998) Department of Biology, University of Texas, Austin, TX. Other, Presented, 11/01/1998.
  • (1998) Mid-Atlantic Diabetes Research Symposium, NIH, Bethesda, MD. Other, Presented, 09/12/1998.
  • (1997) Mid-Atlantic Diabetes Research Symposium, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland. Other, Presented, 04/19/1997.
  • English, fluent.
  • South-Eastern Asia USA, Southeast Asia, Pacific Rim.
  • Poss AM, Holland WL, Summers (2019). Risky Lipids. Refining the Ceramide Score that Measures Cardiovascular Health. European Heart Journal. Accepted, 02/01/2019.
  • Summers SA, Chaurasia B, Holland WL (2019) Metabolic Messengers: Ceramides. Nature Metabolism (in press). Accepted, 01/2019.
  • Funai K, Summers SA, Rutter JA (2019 Reign in the Membrane: How common lipids govern mitochondrial function. Current Opinion in Cell Biology (in press). Published, 01/2019.
  • Poss AM, Holland WL, Summers SA (2019) Risky Lipids. Refining the Ceramide Score that Measures Cardiovascular Health. European Heart Journal (in press). Published, 01/2019.
  • Verkerke ARP, Ferrara PJ, Lin C-T, Johnson JM, Ryan TE, Maschek JA, Eshima H, Paran CW, Laing BT, Siripoksup P, Tippetts TS, Wentzler EJ, Huang H, Spangenburg EE, Brault JJ, Villanueva CJ, Summers SA, Holland WL, Cox JE, Vance DE, Neufer PD. and Funai K (2019) Phospholipid methylation regulates muscle metabolic rate through Ca2+ transport efficiency. Nature Metabolism (in press). Published, 01/2019.
  • Karanth S, Chaurasia B, Bowman F, Tippetts T, Holland WL, Summers SA, and Schlegel A (2019) FOXN3 controls liver glucose metabolism by regulating gluconeogenic substrate selection (in press). Published, 01/2019.
  • Chaurasia B, Tippetts T, Monibas R, Liu J. Li Y, Wang L, Wilkerson J, Sweeney C.R, Pereira R, Sumida D, Maschek J. A., Cox J, Kaddai V, Lancaster G, Siddique M, Poss A, Pearson M, Satapati S, Zhou H, McLaren D, Previs S, Chen Y, Qian Y, Petrov A, Wu M, Shen X, Yao J, Nunes C, Howard A, Wang L, Erion M, Rutter J, Holland W, Kelley D, and Summers S. A. (2019) Targeting a Ceramide Double Bond Improves Insulin Resistance and Hepatic Steatosis. Science 365, 386-392. Published, 01/2019.
  • Kiser PD, Kolesnikov AV, Kiser JZ, Dong Z, Chaurasia B, Wang L, Summers SA, Hoang T, Blackshaw S, Peachey NS, Kefalov VJ, Palczewski K. (2019) Conditional deletion of Des1 in the mouse retina does not impair the visual cycle in cones. FASEB J. 33(4), 5782-5792. Published, 01/2019.
  • Wilkerson JL, Summers SA, and Holland WL (2019) Listen to your heart when ceramide's calling for higher glucose. EBioMedicine (in press). Accepted, 01/2019.
  • Holland WL and Summers SA (2018) Strong Heart, Low Ceramides. Diabetes 67(8), 1457-1460. Published, 01/2018.
  • Chaurasia B, Holland WL, Summers SA (2018) Does this Schlank make me look fat. Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism 29(9), 597-599. Published, 01/2018.
  • de Carvalho LP, Tan SH, Ow GS, Tang Z, Ching J, Kovalik JP, Poh SC, Chin CT, Richards AM, Martinez EC, Troughton RW, Fong AY, Yan BP, Seneviratna A, Sorokin V, Summers SA, Kuznetsov VA, Chan MY. (2018) Plasma Ceramides as Prognostic Biomarkers and Their Arterial and Myocardial Tissue Correlates in Acute Myocardial Infarction. JACC Basic and Translational Science 3(2), 163-175. Published, 01/2018.
  • Tippetts TS, Holland WL, and Summers SA (2018) The Ceramide Ratio: A Predictor of Cardiometabolic Risk. Journal of Lipid Research 59(9), 1549-1550. Published, 01/2018.
  • An J, Wang LP, Patnode ML, Ridaura VK, Haldeman JM, Stevens RD, Ilkayeva O, Bain JR, Muehlbauer MJ, Glynn E, Thomas S, Muoio D, Summers SA, Vath JE, Hughes TE, Gordon JI, and Newgard CB (2018) Physiological mechanisms of sustained fumagillin-induced weight loss. JCI Insight 3(5). Published, 01/2018.
  • Summer Sa (2018). Could ceramides become the new cholesterol? . Cell Metabolism. Accepted, 01/2018.
  • Cai J, Pires KM, Ferhat M, Chaurasia B, Buffolo MA, Smalling R, Sargsyan A, Atkinson DA, Summers SA, Graham TE, and Boudina S (2018) Ablation of autophagy machinery in mature adipocytes induces insulin resistance and reveals new roles for lipid peroxides and Nrf2 signaling in adipose-liver crosstalk. Cell Reports 25(7), 1708-1717. Published, 01/2018.
  • Meikle PJ & Summers SA (2017). Sphingolipids and phospholipids in insulin resistance and related metabolic disorders. Nature Reviews in Endocrinology and Metabolism. Vol. 13(2), 79-91. Published, 01/2017.
  • Liu JJ, Ghosh S, Kovalik JP , Ching J, Choi HW, Tavintharan S, Ong CN, Sum CF, Summers SA, Tai ES & Lim SC (2017). Profiling of plasma metabolite suggests altered mitochondrial fuel usage and remodeling of sphingolipid metabolism in individuals with type 2 diabetes and kidney disease. Kidney International Reports. Vol. 2(3), 470-480. Published, 01/2017.
  • Chaurasia, B, Kaddai, VA, Lancaster, GI, Toh Ee Shiow, SA, Sugii, S, and Summers, SA. Adipocyte Ceramides Regulate Subcutaneous Adipose Browning, Inflammation, and Metabolism, Cell Metabolism (2016), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cmet.2016.10.002. Published, 11/2016. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S...
  • Meikle P & Summers SA. Sphingolipids and Phospholipids in Insulin Resistance and Related Metabolic Disorders, Nature Reviews Endocrinology (2016). Published, 10/2016.
  • Summers SA & Goodpaster BH (2016). Rebuttal from Scott A. Summers and Bret H. Goodpaster. The Journal of physiology. Vol. 594, 3175-6. Published, 06/01/2016.
  • Summers SA & Goodpaster BH (2016). CrossTalk proposal: Intramyocellular ceramide accumulation does modulate insulin resistance. The Journal of physiology. Vol. 594, 3167-70. Published, 06/01/2016.
  • Lee MH, Goralczyk AG, Kriszt R, Ang XM, Badowski , Li Y, Summers SA , Toh S-A, Yassin MS, Shabbir A, Sheppard A & Raghunath M (2016). ECM microenvironment unlocks down adipogenic potential of adult human bone marrow-derived MSCs. Scientific Reports 6. Vol. 21173. Published, 01/2016.
  • Park M, Kaddai V, Ching J, Fridianto KT, Sieli RJ, Sugii S & Summers SA (2016). Role for Ceramides, but NOT Sphingomyelins, as antagonists of insulin signaling and mitochondrial metabolism in C2C12 myotubes. Journal of Biological Chemistry. Vol. 291, 23978-23988. Published, 01/2016.
  • Goodpaster B & Summers SA (2016). CrossTalk Proposal: Intramyocellular ceramides do not cause insulin resistance. Journal of Physiology. Vol. 594(12)316703170. Published, 01/2016.
  • Goodpaster B & Summers SA (2016). Rebuttal to CrossTalk Proposal: Intramyocellular ceramides do no cause insulin resistance. Journal of Physiology. Vol. 594, 3167-3170. Published, 01/2016.
  • Bharath LP, Ruan T, Li Y, Ravindran A, Wan X, Nhan JK, Walker ML, Deeter L, Goodrich R, Johnson E, Munday D, Mueller R, Kunz D, Jones D, Reese V, Summers SA, Babu PV, Holland WL, Zhang QJ, Abel ED & Symons JD (2015). Ceramide-Initiated Protein Phosphatase 2A Activation Contributes to Arterial Dysfunction In Vivo. Diabetes. Vol. 64, 3914-26. Published, 10/01/2015.
  • Chaurasia B & Summers SA (2015). Ceramides - Lipotoxic Inducers of Metabolic Disorders. Trends in endocrinology and metabolism: TEM. Vol. 26, 538-50. Published, 09/01/2015.
  • Summers SA (2015). The ART of Lowering Ceramides. (pp. 195-6). Vol. 22. Cell metabolism. Published, 08/01/2015.
  • Teh JT, Zhu WL, Ilkayeva OR, Li Y, Gooding J, Casey PJ, Summers SA, Newgard CB & Wang M (2015). Isoprenylcysteine carboxylmethyltransferase regulates mitochondrial respiration and cancer cell metabolism. Oncogene. Vol. 34, 3296-304. Published, 06/01/2015.
  • Siddique MM, Li Y, Chaurasia B, Kaddai VA & Summers SA (2015). Dihydroceramides: From Bit Players to Lead Actors. The Journal of biological chemistry. Vol. 290, 15371-9. Published, 06/01/2015.
  • Barbarroja N, Rodriguez-Cuenca S, Nygren H, Camargo A, Pirraco A, Relat J, Cuadrado I, Pellegrinelli V, Medina-Gomez G, Lopez-Pedrera C, Tinahones FJ, Symons JD, Summers SA, Oresic M & Vidal-Puig A (2015). Increased dihydroceramide/ceramide ratio mediated by defective expression of degs1 impairs adipocyte differentiation and function. Diabetes. Vol. 64, 1180-92. Published, 03/01/2015.
  • Goodspeed D, Seferovic MD, Holland W, Mcknight RA, Summers SA, Branch DW, Lane RH & Aagaard KM (2015). Essential nutrient supplementation prevents heritable metabolic disease in multigenerational intrauterine growth-restricted rats. FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. Vol. 29, 807-19. Published, 03/01/2015.
  • Raichur S, Wang ST, Chan PW, Li Y, Ching J, Chaurasia B, Chaurasia B, Dogra S, Öhman MK, Takeda K, Sugii S, Pewzner-Jung Y, Futerman AH & Summers SA (2014). CerS2 haploinsufficiency inhibits β-oxidation and confers susceptibility to diet-induced steatohepatitis and insulin resistance. Cell metabolism. Vol. 20, 687-95. Published, 10/01/2014.
  • Sinha RA, Farah BL, Singh BK, Siddique MM, Li Y, Wu Y, Ilkayeva OR, Gooding J, Ching J, Zhou J, Martinez L, Xie S, Bay BH, Summers SA, Newgard CB & Yen PM (2014). Caffeine stimulates hepatic lipid metabolism by the autophagy-lysosomal pathway in mice. Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.). Vol. 59, 1366-80. Published, 03/01/2014.
  • Chavez JA, Siddique MM, Wang ST, Ching J, Shayman JA & Summers SA (2014). Ceramides and glucosylceramides are independent antagonists of insulin signaling. The Journal of biological chemistry. Vol. 289, 723-34. Published, 01/01/2014.
  • Chua EC, Shui G, Lee IT, Lau P, Tan LC, Yeo SC, Lam BD, Bulchand S, Summers SA, Puvanendran K, Rozen SG, Wenk MR & Gooley JJ (2013). Extensive diversity in circadian regulation of plasma lipids and evidence for different circadian metabolic phenotypes in humans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Vol. 110, 14468-73. Published, 08/01/2013.
  • Siddique MM, Li Y, Wang L, Ching J, Mal M, Ilkayeva O, Wu YJ, Bay BH & Summers SA (2013). Ablation of dihydroceramide desaturase 1, a therapeutic target for the treatment of metabolic diseases, simultaneously stimulates anabolic and catabolic signaling. Molecular and cellular biology. Vol. 33, 2353-69. Published, 05/01/2013.
  • Siddique MM, Bikman BT, Wang L, Ying L, Reinhardt E, Shui G, Wenk MR & Summers SA (2012). Ablation of dihydroceramide desaturase confers resistance to etoposide-induced apoptosis in vitro. PloS one. Vol. 7, e44042. Published, 09/01/2012.
  • Sinha RA, You SH, Zhou J, Siddique MM, Bay BH, Zhu X, Privalsky ML, Cheng SY, Stevens RD, Summers SA, Newgard CB, Lazar MA & Yen PM (2012). Thyroid hormone stimulates hepatic lipid catabolism via activation of autophagy. The Journal of clinical investigation. Vol. 122, 2428-38. Published, 07/01/2012.
  • Zhang QJ, Holland WL, Wilson L, Tanner JM, Kearns D, Cahoon JM, Pettey D, Losee J, Duncan B, Gale D, Kowalski CA, Deeter N, Nichols A, Deesing M, Arrant C, Ruan T, Boehme C, McCamey DR, Rou J, Ambal K, Narra KK, Summers SA, Abel ED & Symons JD (2012). Ceramide mediates vascular dysfunction in diet-induced obesity by PP2A-mediated dephosphorylation of the eNOS-Akt complex. Diabetes. Vol. 61, 1848-59. Published, 06/01/2012.
  • Chavez JA & Summers SA (2012). A ceramide-centric view of insulin resistance. Cell metabolism. Vol. 15, 585-94. Published, 05/01/2012.
  • Bikman BT, Guan Y, Shui G, Siddique MM, Holland WL, Kim JY, Fabriàs G, Wenk MR & Summers SA (2012). Fenretinide prevents lipid-induced insulin resistance by blocking ceramide biosynthesis. The Journal of biological chemistry. Vol. 287, 17426-37. Published, 05/01/2012.
  • Bikman BT & Summers SA (2011). Ceramides as modulators of cellular and whole-body metabolism. The Journal of clinical investigation. Vol. 121, 4222-30. Published, 11/01/2011.
  • Bikman BT & Summers SA (2011). Sphingolipids and hepatic steatosis. Advances in experimental medicine and biology. Vol. 721, 87-97. Published, 09/01/2011.
  • Holland WL, Bikman BT, Wang LP, Yuguang G, Sargent KM, Bulchand S, Knotts TA, Shui G, Clegg DJ, Wenk MR, Pagliassotti MJ, Scherer PE & Summers SA (2011). Lipid-induced insulin resistance mediated by the proinflammatory receptor TLR4 requires saturated fatty acid-induced ceramide biosynthesis in mice. The Journal of clinical investigation. Vol. 121, 1858-70. Published, 05/01/2011.
  • Holland WL, Miller RA, Wang ZV, Sun K, Barth BM, Bui HH, Davis KE, Bikman BT, Halberg N, Rutkowski JM, Wade MR, Tenorio VM, Kuo MS, Brozinick JT, Zhang BB, Birnbaum MJ, Summers SA & Scherer PE (2011). Receptor-mediated activation of ceramidase activity initiates the pleiotropic actions of adiponectin. Nature medicine. Vol. 17, 55-63. Published, 01/01/2011.
  • Summers SA (2010). Sphingolipids and insulin resistance: the five Ws. Current opinion in lipidology. Vol. 21, 128-35. Published, 07/01/2010.
  • Chavez JA & Summers SA (2010). Lipid oversupply, selective insulin resistance, and lipotoxicity: molecular mechanisms. Biochimica et biophysica acta. Vol. 1801, 252-65. Published, 02/01/2010.
  • Fujii N, Ho RC, Manabe Y, Jessen N, Toyoda T, Holland WL, Summers SA, Hirshman MF & Goodyear LJ (2008). Ablation of AMP-activated protein kinase alpha2 activity exacerbates insulin resistance induced by high-fat feeding of mice. Diabetes. Vol. 57, 2958-66. Published, 10/01/2008.
  • Holland WL & Summers SA (2008). Sphingolipids, insulin resistance, and metabolic disease: new insights from in vivo manipulation of sphingolipid metabolism. Endocrine reviews. Vol. 29, 381-402. Published, 06/01/2008.
  • Holland WL, Knotts TA, Chavez JA, Wang LP, Hoehn KL & Summers SA (2007). Lipid mediators of insulin resistance. Nutrition reviews. Vol. 65, S39-46. Published, 07/01/2007.
  • Holland WL, Brozinick JT, Wang LP, Hawkins ED, Sargent KM, Liu Y, Narra K, Hoehn KL, Knotts TA, Siesky A, Nelson DH, Karathanasis SK, Fontenot GK, Birnbaum MJ & Summers SA (2007). Inhibition of ceramide synthesis ameliorates glucocorticoid-, saturated-fat-, and obesity-induced insulin resistance. Cell metabolism. Vol. 5, 167-79. Published, 03/01/2007.
  • Arbiser JL, Kau T, Konar M, Narra K, Ramchandran R, Summers SA, Vlahos CJ, Ye K, Perry BN, Matter W, Fischl A, Cook J, Silver PA, Bain J, Cohen P, Whitmire D, Furness S, Govindarajan B & Bowen JP (2007). Solenopsin, the alkaloidal component of the fire ant (Solenopsis invicta), is a naturally occurring inhibitor of phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase signaling and angiogenesis. Blood. Vol. 109, 560-5. Published, 01/01/2007.
  • Summers SA (2006). Ceramides in insulin resistance and lipotoxicity. Progress in lipid research. Vol. 45, 42-72. Published, 02/01/2006.
  • Safadi-Chamberlain F, Wang LP, Payne SG, Lim CU, Stratford S, Chavez JA, Fox MH, Spiegel S & Summers SA (2005). Effect of a membrane-targeted sphingosine kinase 1 on cell proliferation and survival. The Biochemical journal. Vol. 388, 827-34. Published, 06/01/2005.
  • Chavez JA, Holland WL, Bär J, Sandhoff K & Summers SA (2005). Acid ceramidase overexpression prevents the inhibitory effects of saturated fatty acids on insulin signaling. The Journal of biological chemistry. Vol. 280, 20148-53. Published, 05/01/2005.
  • Summers SA & Nelson DH (2005). A role for sphingolipids in producing the common features of type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome X, and Cushing's syndrome. Diabetes. Vol. 54, 591-602. Published, 02/01/2005.
  • Florant GL, Porst H, Peiffer A, Hudachek SF, Pittman C, Summers SA, Rajala MW & Scherer PE (2004). Fat-cell mass, serum leptin and adiponectin changes during weight gain and loss in yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventris). (pp. 633-9). Vol. 174. Journal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology. Published, 11/01/2004.
  • Stratford S, Hoehn KL, Liu F & Summers SA (2004). Regulation of insulin action by ceramide: dual mechanisms linking ceramide accumulation to the inhibition of Akt/protein kinase B. The Journal of biological chemistry. Vol. 279, 36608-15. Published, 08/01/2004.
  • Summers SA, Matijevic A & Almond MK (2004). Successful re-introduction of recombinant human erythropoietin following antibody induced pure red cell aplasia. (pp. 2137-9). Vol. 19. Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association. Published, 07/01/2004.
  • Hoehn KL, Hudachek SF, Summers SA & Florant GL (2004). Seasonal, tissue-specific regulation of Akt/protein kinase B and glycogen synthase in hibernators. American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology. Vol. 286, R498-504. Published, 02/01/2004.
  • Chavez JA & Summers SA (2003). Characterizing the effects of saturated fatty acids on insulin signaling and ceramide and diacylglycerol accumulation in 3T3-L1 adipocytes and C2C12 myotubes. (pp. 101-9). Vol. 419. Archives of biochemistry and biophysics. Published, 10/01/2003.
  • Hoehn KL & Summers SA (2003). Assaying AKT/protein kinase B activity. Methods in molecular medicine. Vol. 83, 137-44. Published, 03/01/2003.
  • Wang LP & Summers SA (2003). Measuring insulin-stimulated phosphatidyl-inositol 3-kinase activity. Methods in molecular medicine. Vol. 83, 127-36. Published, 03/01/2003.
  • Chavez JA, Knotts TA, Wang LP, Li G, Dobrowsky RT, Florant GL & Summers SA (2003). A role for ceramide, but not diacylglycerol, in the antagonism of insulin signal transduction by saturated fatty acids. The Journal of biological chemistry. Vol. 278, 10297-303. Published, 03/01/2003.
  • Ho RC, Davy KP, Hickey MS, Summers SA & Melby CL (2002). Behavioral, metabolic, and molecular correlates of lower insulin sensitivity in Mexican-Americans. American journal of physiology. Endocrinology and metabolism. Vol. 283, E799-808. Published, 09/01/2002.
  • Stratford S, DeWald DB & Summers SA (2001). Ceramide dissociates 3'-phosphoinositide production from pleckstrin homology domain translocation. The Biochemical journal. Vol. 354, 359-68. Published, 02/01/2001.
  • Summers SA, Whiteman EL & Birnbaum MJ (2000). Insulin signaling in the adipocyte. International journal of obesity and related metabolic disorders : journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity. Vol. 24 Suppl 4, S67-70. Published, 12/01/2000.
  • Summers SA, Yin VP, Whiteman EL, Garza LA, Cho H, Tuttle RL & Birnbaum MJ (2000). Signaling pathways mediating insulin-stimulated glucose transport. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. Vol. 892, 169-86. Published, 06/01/2000.
  • Hausdorff SF, Fingar DC, Morioka K, Garza LA, Whiteman EL, Summers SA & Birnbaum MJ (1999). Identification of wortmannin-sensitive targets in 3T3-L1 adipocytes. DissociationoOf insulin-stimulated glucose uptake and glut4 translocation. The Journal of biological chemistry. Vol. 274, 24677-84. Published, 09/01/1999.
  • Cass LA, Summers SA, Prendergast GV, Backer JM, Birnbaum MJ & Meinkoth JL (1999). Protein kinase A-dependent and -independent signaling pathways contribute to cyclic AMP-stimulated proliferation. Molecular and cellular biology. Vol. 19, 5882-91. Published, 09/01/1999.
  • Summers SA, Whiteman EL, Cho H, Lipfert L & Birnbaum MJ (1999). Differentiation-dependent suppression of platelet-derived growth factor signaling in cultured adipocytes. The Journal of biological chemistry. Vol. 274, 23858-67. Published, 09/01/1999.
  • Summers SA, Kao AW, Kohn AD, Backus GS, Roth RA, Pessin JE & Birnbaum MJ (1999). The role of glycogen synthase kinase 3beta in insulin-stimulated glucose metabolism. The Journal of biological chemistry. Vol. 274, 17934-40. Published, 07/01/1999.
  • Kallen CB, Billheimer JT, Summers SA, Stayrook SE, Lewis M & Strauss JF (1998). Steroidogenic acute regulatory protein (StAR) is a sterol transfer protein. The Journal of biological chemistry. Vol. 273, 26285-8. Published, 11/01/1998.
  • Summers SA, Garza LA, Zhou H & Birnbaum MJ (1998). Regulation of insulin-stimulated glucose transporter GLUT4 translocation and Akt kinase activity by ceramide. Molecular and cellular biology. Vol. 18, 5457-64. Published, 09/01/1998.
  • Zhou H, Summers SA, Birnbaum MJ & Pittman RN (1998). Inhibition of Akt kinase by cell-permeable ceramide and its implications for ceramide-induced apoptosis. The Journal of biological chemistry. Vol. 273, 16568-75. Published, 08/01/1998.
  • Summers SA, Lipfert L & Birnbaum MJ (1998). Polyoma middle T antigen activates the Ser/Thr kinase Akt in a PI3-kinase-dependent manner. Biochemical and biophysical research communications. Vol. 246, 76-81. Published, 06/01/1998.
  • Kohn AD, Barthel A, Kovacina KS, Boge A, Wallach B, Summers SA, Birnbaum MJ, Scott PH, Lawrence JC & Roth RA (1998). Construction and characterization of a conditionally active version of the serine/threonine kinase Akt. The Journal of biological chemistry. Vol. 273, 11937-43. Published, 06/01/1998.
  • Summers SA & Birnbaum MJ (1998). A role for the serine/threonine kinase, Akt, in insulin-stimulated glucose uptake. Biochemical Society transactions. Vol. 25, 981-8. Published, 01/01/1998.
  • Summers SA, Guebert BA & Shanahan MF (1997). Polyphosphoinositide inclusion in artificial lipid bilayer vesicles promotes divalent cation-dependent membrane fusion. (pp. 3199-206). Vol. 71. Biophysical journal. Published, 04/01/1997.
  • Kohn AD, Summers SA, Birnbaum MJ & Roth RA (1997). Expression of a constitutively active Akt Ser/Thr kinase in 3T3-L1 adipocytes stimulates glucose uptake and glucose transporter 4 translocation. The Journal of biological chemistry. Vol. 271, 31372-8. Published, 01/01/1997.
  • Wandel S, Schurmann A, Becker W, Summers SA, Shanahan MF & Joost HG (1996). Mutation of two conserved arginine residues in the glucose transporter GLUT4 supresses transport activity, but not glucose-inhibitable binding of inhibitory ligands. Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology. Vol. 353, 36-41. Published, 11/01/1996.
  • Wandel S, Buchs A, Schürmann A, Summers SA, Powers AC, Shanahan MF & Joost HG (1996). Glucose transport activity and ligand binding (cytochalasin B, IAPS-forskolin) of chimeric constructs of GLUT2 and GLUT4 expressed in COS-7-cells. Biochimica et biophysica acta. Vol. 1284, 56-62. Published, 11/01/1996.
  • Wandel S, Schürmann A, Becker W, Summers SA, Shanahan MF & Joost HG (1994). Substitution of conserved tyrosine residues in helix 4 (Y143) and 7 (Y293) affects the activity, but not IAPS-forskolin binding, of the glucose transporter GLUT4. FEBS letters. Vol. 348, 114-8. Published, 08/01/1994.

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The nutrition and food science program focuses on the chemical and biological components of food and the ways in which these ingredients affect health. 

Due to an increased awareness in recent years of how food directly affects the population’s health, there is a greater demand for professionals trained in nutrition and food science. The general public has begun to realize just how important it is to eat well-balanced meals. This means that the opportunities for careers in nutrition are at an all-time high.

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Students learn the chemical, biological, microbiological, nutritional, engineering and economic aspects of food, as well as the social impacts of the foods people eat, including how they affect various issues, including economy, psychology, and culture.

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Applicants are not required to have bachelor’s degrees in nutrition or food sciences, but they must have strong backgrounds in science and mathematics. There may be prerequisite courses needed for make up in some situations. These can be taken concurrently with graduate coursework and are determined on a case-to-case basis.

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The nutrition and food sciences graduate program has rolling admission, meaning the department will continue to consider and accept applications until the program is full. The time it takes to process an application is primarily dependent on the speed with which the School of Graduate Studies receives letters of recommendation, transcripts, and test scores. For most students, this process may take six to eight weeks. Applicants should plan accordingly.

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When a PhD student has completed the courses listed in their program of study, they schedule a meeting of their committee for the comprehensive examination. This is usually an oral examination, although committee members have the option of providing a written exam. Typically students will be asked questions related to their area of concentration and their field of research, but the comprehensive exam can also be used to test the student's overall knowledge of food science or nutrition.

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Students can receive the MS by pursuing the following option:

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All students typically receive some kind of assistantship; however, the department will accept students who are self-funded if there are no available assistantships remaining.

The Gandhi Scholarship is also available on a competitive basis to support outstanding students during their graduate education in food science. Awards are available for entering master’s degree students, as well as for PhD candidates. Applications are due February 1. To obtain an application, visit the Department of Nutrition, Dietetics, and Food Sciences website or contact the department.

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 Associate Professor of Nutrition and Integrative Physiology and Adjunct Associate Professor of Biochemistry

Lipids, Mitochondria, Bioenergetics, Metabolic Disease

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B.S./M.S. Boston University

Ph.D. University of Michigan

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The Funai laboratory is interested in the intracellular fate of lipids into membrane phospholipids and how they affect cellular energetics. In particular, mitochondrial membrane lipid composition becomes robustly altered upon metabolic insults in multiple tissues. Genetic disruptions or enhancements in pathways of mitochondrial phospholipid biosynthesis are sufficient to recapitulate some of the physiological/pathological phenotypes induced by such metabolic insults. Human mutations in the enzymes of mitochondrial phospholipid biosynthesis cause severe mitochondrial defects and are detrimental to health.

As a postdoctoral fellow in Clay Semenkovich’s lab, Katsu developed a deep appreciation for subcellular lipid compartmentalization and decided to pursue this topic when he started his laboratory in 2013. We first characterized the relationship between mitochondrial lipidome and bioenergetics in skeletal muscle (Heden et al., Sci Adv, 2019). We found that exercise and physical inactivity robustly alter mitochondrial phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) and described the role of this lipid in improving OXPHOS efficiency and driving some of the physiological phenotypes associated with exercise or inactivity. Leveraging this strategy, we are now beginning to implicate mitochondrial lipids in other tissues such as adipose tissues, liver, pancreatic β cells, proximal tubules in the kidney, etc. (Verkerke et al., Nat Metab, 2019; Johnson et al., Mol Metab, 2020; Ferrara et al., biorχiv, 2022; Siripoksup et al., biorχiv, 2022; Johnson et al., Sci Adv, 2023). Together, we hypothesize that mitochondrial membrane lipids represent a common, fundamental mechanism by which OXPHOS efficiency is altered to trigger metabolic diseases. In addition to our studies in mitochondrial lipids, we have also studied ER phospholipids, plasma membrane phospholipids, as well as lipid peroxidation. Our lab is currently funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health and American Heart Association

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References (Selected Publications)

  • Eshima H, Shahtout JL, Siripoksup P, Pearson MJ, Mahmassani ZS, Ferrara PJ, Lyons AW, Maschek JA, Peterlin AD, Verkerke ARP, Johnson JM, Salcedo A, Petrocelli JJ, Miranda ER, Anderson EJ, Boudina S, Ran Q, Cox JE, Drummond MJ,  Funai K . Lipid hydroperoxides promote sarcopenia through carbonyl stress.  eLife .  12:e85289, 2023.
  • Ferrara PJ, Lang MJ, Johnson JM, Watanabe S, McLaughlin KL, Maschek JA, Verkerke ARP, Siripoksup P, Chaix A, Cox JE, Fisher-Wellman KH,  Funai K . Weight loss improves skeletal muscle mitochondrial energy efficiency.  Life Metabolism .  2(2):load014, 2023.
  • Johnson JM, Peterlin AD, Balderas E, Sustarsic EG, Maschek JA, Lang MJ, Jara-Ramos A, Panic V, Morgan JT, Villanueva CJ, Sanchez A, Rutter J, Lodhi IJ, Cox JE, Fisher-Wellman KH, Chaudhuri D, Gerhart-Hines Z,  Funai K . Mitochondrial phosphatidylethanolamine directly regulates UCP1 to promote brown adipose thermogenesis.  Science Advances . 9(8):eade7864, 2023.
  • Miranda ER, Shahtout JL,  Funai K . Chicken or Egg? Mitochondrial phospholipids and oxidative stress in disuse-induced skeletal muscle atrophy.  Antioxidants & Redox Signaling . 38(4-6):338-351, 2023.
  • Miranda ER,  Funai K . Suppression of de novo sphingolipid biosynthesis mitigates sarcopenia.  Nature Aging . 2, 1088-1089, 2022.
  • Ferrara PJ, Rong X, Maschek JA, Verkerke ARP, Siripoksup P, Song H, Green TD, Krishnan KC, Johnson JM, Turk J, Houmard JA, Lusis AJ, Drummond MJ, McClung JM, Cox JE, Shaikh SR, Tontonoz P, Holland WL, Funai K . Lysophospholipid acylation modulates plasma membrane lipid organization and insulin sensitivity in skeletal muscle. J Clin Invest. 131(8): e135963, 2021.
  • Funai K , Summers SA, Rutter J. Reign in the Membrane: How common lipids govern mitochondrial function. Current Opinion in Cell Biology . 63:162-173, 2020.
  • Johnson JM, Verkerke ARP, Maschek JA, Ferrara PJ, Lin C, Kew KA, Neufer PD, Lodhi IJ, Cox JE, Funai K . Alternative splicing of UCP1 by non-cell autonomous action of PEMT. Molecular Metabolism . 31(1):55-66, 2020.
  • Verkerke ARP, Ferrara PJ, Lin C, Johnson JM, Ryan TE, Maschek JA, Eshima H, Paran CW, Laing BT, Siripoksup P, Tippetts TS, Wentzler EJ, Huang H, Spangenburg EE, Brault JJ, Villanueva CJ, Summers SA, Holland WL, Cox JE, Vance DE, Neufer PD,  Funai K . Phospholipid methylation regulates muscle metabolic rate through Ca 2+  transport efficiency.  Nature Metabolism . 1(9):876-885, 2019 . [Selected for Cover]
  • Heden TD, Johnson JM, Ferrara PJ, Eshima H, Verkerke ARP, Wentzler EJ, Siripoksup P, Narowski TM, Coleman CB, Lin CT, Ryan TE, Reidy PT, de Castro Bras LE, Karner CM, Burant CF, Maschek JA, Cox JE, Mashek DG, Kardon G, Boudina S, Zeczycki TN, Rutter J, Shaikh SR, Vance JE, Drummond MJ, Neufer PD,  Funai K . Mitochondrial PE potentiates respiratory enzymes to amplify skeletal muscle aerobic capacity.  Science Advances . 5(9):eaax8352, 2019. .
  • Park H, He A, Tan M, Johnson JM, Dean JM, Pietka TA, Chen Y, Zhang X, Hsu FF, Razani B,  Funai K , Lodhi IJ. Peroxisome-derived lipids regulate adipose thermogenesis by mediating cold-induced mitochondrial fission.  J Clin Invest .  129(2):694-711, 2019.
  • Pennington ER,  Funai K , Brown DA, Shaikh SR. The role of cardiolipin concentration and acyl-chain composition on mitochondrial inner membrane molecular organization and function.  Biochim Biophys Acta .  1864(7):1039-1052, 2019.
  • Anderson EJ, Vistoli G, Katunga, LA,  Funai K , Regazzoni L, Monroe TB, Gilardoni E, Cannizzaro L, Colzani M, De Maddis D, Rossoni G, Canevotti R, Gagilardi S, Carini M, Aldini G. A carnosine analog mitigates metabolic disorders of obesity by reducing carbonyl stress.  J Clin Invest .  128(12):5280-5293, 2018.
  • Johnson JM, Ferrara PJ, Verkerke ARP, Coleman CB, Wentzler EJ, Neufer PD, Kew KA, de Castro Brás LE,  Funai K . Targeted overexpression of catalase to mitochondria does not prevent cardioskeletal myopathy in Barth syndrome.  J Mol Cell Cardiol .  121(8):94-102, 2018 .
  • Ferrara PJ, Verkerke ARP, Brault JJ,  Funai K . Hypothermia decreases oxygen cost for ex vivo contraction in mouse skeletal muscle.  Med Sci Sports Exerc . 50(10):2015-2023, 2018.
  • Heden TD, Neufer PD,  Funai K . Looking beyond structure: membrane phospholipids of skeletal muscle mitochondria.  Trends Endocrinol Metab .  27(8):553-62, 2016.

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A Prescription for More Affordable Pharmacy Education

My interest in pharmacy began when a caring pharmacist made a difference for my grandmother, who struggled to afford essential medications. Seeing such expertise and compassion up close—enabling access where broken systems had failed—left an imprint on me.   

Many promising health care providers and future pharmacists have similar formative stories. Maybe from seeing their own family members go untreated or watching brilliant mentors establish trust through knowledge and generosity. We’re all drawn to this work for deeply personal reasons. These are reasons that a truly healthy community should nurture and reward instead of restricting through artificial barriers.   

Yet, as I completed my pharmacy education and progressed into leadership, I realized just how challenging the current ecosystem is for many potential pharmacy applicants.

Flawed Pharmacy Education Model 

As a pharmacist turned professor and health economist , I’m greatly concerned by the trajectory of pharmacy programs over the past 20 years. 



We’ve seen continuously escalating tuition rates and dramatically expanding enrollment caps. Many schools have pursued easy revenue growth models instead of nurturing pharmacy talent. It just doesn't seem sustainable. 


When I graduated from pharmacy school in 2009, I was burdened with huge student debt. It took me years to pay down. Even with great grades, merit aid wasn’t available. I was caught in the outrageous cost inflation battering higher education everywhere. 



These days, my story is fairly normal. But I don't see many pharmacy programs asking tough questions about runaway expenses cascading to students.   

The phenomenon reached new heights in the 2010s when application rates started noticeably tapering off nationwide. With shrinking applicant pools, most institutions responded by simply squeezing higher profits out of an already over-burdened student body.   

This shortsightedness troubled me. It constrained graduates from pursuing their deepest passions and talents in the field. When monetary motives eclipse academic mission, we get systems indifferent to controlling costs or students’ success.

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University of Utah's Groundbreaking Experiment 

When a new position opened at the University of Utah College of Pharmacy in 2022, I was  keenly interested. Perhaps change could emerge from an unexpected place. Exploring the opportunity, I discovered Utah’s leaders recognized that business as usual was failing.   

Spearheaded by Randall Peterson, PhD, dean of the College of Pharmacy, Utah committed to launching a first-of-its-kind First Year Free initiative.   

This groundbreaking program promised to cover an entire year of tuition for every student admitted. It was the result of visionary philanthropy and serious institutional efficiency commitments. To call this level of investment “rare” barely captures it.   

The health care economist in me wanted to learn more about this new funding paradigm. The college didn’t rely solely on charity. It fundamentally bent its own cost curve.   


First Year Free is available to students from anywhere. It reduces the overall cost of a four-year PharmD degree by 25 percent. The program aims to:

  • Improve access to PharmD education for students from underrepresented communities
  • Increase the size of the PharmD recruiting pool
  • Grow national distinction
  • Enhance faculty recruitment 

 

This creative financial sustainability and long-term vision caught my attention.

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Transformative Change

Utah made waves when the program was originally announced. Observing Year One operations proves genuinely transformative change is underway. We are in the early stages of gathering data to track program successes and make future refinements. But preliminary data already shows strong applicant interest.   

When money stops being the prime limiting factor for opportunity, we’ll gather a wider spectrum of talented individuals pursuing their passion. That’s indispensable for health care. And it’s indispensable for healthy communities—locally and nationally.

Investing in the Future 

Current students frequently talk about the psychological lift from shedding major fall semester tuition bills. I still find first years asking, “What’s the catch?” Through the lens of embedded cultural cynicism, generous education access seems too good to be true.   

But demonstrating creative solutions that are built to last helps shift their focus toward personal and professional growth. Seeing peers pursue education based on fit rather than finances will elevate health equity wherever graduates ultimately serve.   

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There’s no doubt that much work remains to improve access, affordability, transparency, and value across higher education. Old pharmacy school models yield ballooning debt without clear returns. In contrast, First Year Free at the U’s College of Pharmacy is a blueprint for a novel financial model for professional education. 

Students deserve the chance to pursue their callings without amassing debt that distorts their future. First Year Free begins rectifying the troublesome imbalance between excellence and exclusion in health professions training pipelines. 

With First Year Free’s early wins logged, we are actively developing more ways to sustainably nurture talent unburdened by financial barriers. At University of Utah Health, we continue to lead the way by putting innovative thinking into action.

Joey Mattingly, PharmD, MBA, PhD

Joey Mattingly, PharmD, MBA, PhD

Joey Mattingly is an associate professor and Vice Chair for Research at the University of Utah College of Pharmacy. Since 2014, Mattingly has developed a research portfolio that primarily focuses on drug pricing policy. He has engaged policymakers at local, state, and federal levels, including serving as Speaker of the House of Delegates and Trustee for the American Pharmacists Association from 2019-2021. Most recently, he was appointed as an advisor to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to aid in the implementation of its Drug Price Negotiation Program. He received a PhD in health services research from the University of Maryland, Baltimore, a PharmD from the University of Kentucky, and an MBA from the University of Kentucky.  

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LOGAN, Utah —  With five seconds remaining, graduate guard Darius Brown II nailed a 3-pointer at the end of the shot clock to give No. 22 Utah State men's basketball an 87-84 lead over New Mexico. 

DARIUS BROWN!!!!!!!!!!! 📺 @CBSSportsNet #AggiesAllTheWay | @dariusbrownii pic.twitter.com/fh0wqdS6ug — USU Men's Hoops (@USUBasketball) March 10, 2024

The Aggies fouled the Lobos to prevent a tying three. After a made free throw, New Mexico couldn't get a last shot off an intentional miss and the Aggies outlasted New Mexico, 87-85, to win the Mountain West regular season championship outright in front of a sold-out crowd on Saturday night inside the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum.

The party is on in Logan! #AggiesAllTheWay pic.twitter.com/vQoLysDObo — USU Men's Hoops (@USUBasketball) March 10, 2024

It marked Utah State's first-ever outright regular season championship in the Mountain West and first MW regular season title since 2018-19. USU has now won or shared 18 conference championships all-time. Utah State was picked to finish ninth in the preseason polls under first-year head coach Danny Sprinkle as it returned zero points from last year's NCAA Tournament team.

Senior guard Ian Martinez led the Aggies with a game-high 22 points, including three 3-pointers. Junior wing Great Osobor logged his 14th double-double of the season with 21 points, 12 rebounds and three assists. Brown tallied 19 points, including the game-winning triple, and dished out nine assists. Redshirt freshman Mason Falslev scored 10 points on a perfect 5-of-5 from the field, while totaling three rebounds and two assists. 

New Mexico (22-9, 10-8 MW) took an early lead with four-straight points to start the contest. Utah State (26-5, 14-4 MW) claimed the lead on a 5-0 surge behind an and-one, one-handed hammer from Martinez. Both sides traded layups before USU extended its lead to six points, 20-14, on a 6-0 run with layups from Falslev and Osobor. 

WELCOME TO THE DUNK SHOW😤 📺 @CBSSportsNet #SCTop10 | #AggiesAllTheWay | @IanJumaine pic.twitter.com/utip17NGAb — USU Men's Hoops (@USUBasketball) March 10, 2024

The Lobos tied things up midway through the half on back-to-back treys before Martinez and Brown would combine for a 6-0 spurt to give the Aggies a 33-27 lead with just under eight minutes before halftime. New Mexico responded by outscoring Utah State 17-6 until the break, including seven Lobo free throws. UNM went to the locker room with a 44-39 advantage. 

After the break, USU retook the lead on a 6-0 run to start the second half. Osobor dunked, Martinez knocked down a three and junior guard Josh Uduje hit free throws to extend the advantage to four points, 52-48. The Lobos would regain the lead and shoot out to a six-point lead, 65-59, hitting three 3-pointers over five minutes. 

The Aggies bounced back with an 11-4 run, capped by two free throws from Brown, to gain a 70-69 advantage with just under eight minutes remaining. By trading 3-pointers and free throws for layups, USU led by four points, 82-78, with just over two minutes left. New Mexico sophomore guard Donovan Dent tied things up at 82 on back-to-back layups with a minute remaining. 

IT'S LOUD IN HERE‼️ ⚡️ @dariusbrownii & @IanJumaine 📺 @CBSSportsNet #AggiesAllTheWay pic.twitter.com/8gVpJJURd5 — USU Men's Hoops (@USUBasketball) March 10, 2024

Martinez dunked and Lobo graduate guard Jaelen House hit a jumper to set the stage for Brown. After Martinez dribbled down the shot clock, the ball was swung into Osobor who dealt it out to Brown for the game-winning triple. Aggie fans stormed the court and cheered as Utah State cut the net to celebrate its regular season championship secured by an 87-85 victory over New Mexico. 

. @IanJumaine takes FLIGHT ✈️ 📺 @CBSSportsNet #AggiesAllTheWay pic.twitter.com/s5fnBVXLE5 — USU Men's Hoops (@USUBasketball) March 10, 2024

Utah State shot 53.6 percent (30-of-56) from the field, 30.0 percent (6-of-20) from downtown and 75.0 percent (21-of-28) at the free-throw line.

Senior forward Mustapha Amzil paced the Lobos with 18 points, five rebounds and two assists. New Mexico shot 52.3 percent (34-of-65) from the field, 40.0 percent (6-of-15) from behind the arc and 61.1 percent (11-of-18) at the charity stripe.

With the top seed in the bracket, Utah State will play its first game of the Mountain West Men's Basketball Championship on Thursday, March 14, at 1 p.m. (MT), in the quarterfinal round against the winner of the 8/9 matchup at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. 

Utah State men's basketball news and information is available on Facebook (facebook.com/usumensbasketball), on Twitter (@usubasketball) and on Instagram (@usubasketball). Fans can also get USU men's basketball highlights on YouTube (youtube.com/utahstateathletics). Aggie fans can follow the Utah State athletic program on Twitter (@usuathletics), on Facebook (facebook.com/usuathletics) or on Instagram (@usuathletics). -USU-

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Pursue a fulfilling career with UW’s human nutrition and food degree

Food holds a special place in today’s world. It presents challenges, fuels the human body and connects people across cultures.

While at UW, students have access to interesting coursework and service learning opportunities. Upon graduation, students are ready to tackle pressing nutrition concerns like food insecurity, obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and other nutrition-related chronic diseases.

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The University of Wyoming’s nutrition degree program prepares students to work in a variety of settings — including public health, hospitals, community clinics, food service, sports, public schools and sustainable agriculture.

If you’re ready to build a fulfilling career in nutrition, the University of Wyoming’s human nutrition and food major is for you! As a student, you’ll learn about the science of food and participate in valuable service learning opportunities. Plus, students may apply to UW’s accredited Didactic Program in Nutrition and Dietetics to graduate with a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN) credential . 

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Students pursuing the human nutrition and food major may choose to apply to the Didactic Program in Nutrition and Dietetics — which is required in order to receive the Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN) credential .

We pride ourselves on having a 100% match rate for students pursuing a dietetic internship, whereas the national rate is typically between 60% and 70%.

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What Can You Do With a Nutrition Degree?

UW nutrition graduates pursue careers as registered dietitians, educators and entrepreneurs.

Nutrition Careers

Here are some of the job titles our graduates have held:

  • Registered Dietitian
  • Nutrition Information Specialist
  • Nutrition Services Supervisor
  • Clinical Dietitian
  • Patient Services Manager
  • Nutrition Instructor
  • Extension Nutrition Specialist
  • Food Production Manager
  • Wellness Program Educator

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Nutrition Major Highlights

The human nutrition and food program prepares students to thrive as registered dietitians or nutrition professionals. Here are a few highlights of our program:

Research Opportunities

In addition to coursework, students may pursue research opportunities during their time at UW. A wide variety of research experiences are readily available with UW’s nutrition faculty. 

Nutrition students are currently involved in research projects focused on:

  • Biometric assessment
  • Brain-reward pathways
  • Regulation of craving training and analysis
  • Dietary analysis
  • Sensory characteristics
  • Community-based participatory research with tribal partners from the Wind River reservation

Specialized Faculty

The nutrition major is led by a group of highly regarded faculty members , each with their own specialty. Our faculty members specialize in: 

  • Eating behaviors
  • Primary and secondary reward pathways
  • Picky eating and eating competency
  • Sensory characteristics of food products
  • Product development
  • Micronutrient needs and deficiencies
  • Indigenous and traditional diets
  • Health disparities
  • The impact of nutrition on health outcomes

On-Campus Organizations

The University of Wyoming is home to many thriving, student-led organizations. As a nutrition major, you may be interested in:

  • Student Dietetic Association
  • American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences
  • Food Science Club
  • Wellness Ambassadors
  • Sports Performance and Nutrition Internship with UW Athletics
  • Phi Upsilon Omicron Honor Society

Service Learning

Nutrition students are encouraged to get involved with the local community and apply what they’re learning. Students often get involved with the campus food share pantry , the Cent$ible Nutrition Program , the high altitude performance center and ACRES student farm .

The family-oriented closeness was the biggest aspect I enjoyed about the nutrition/didactic program and department. I tell everyone that they're my second family. I have always felt so encouraged by our faculty and staff, and the other students I've grown close with have made it all the better. Such a great experience!

- 2023 Graduate

Related Programs

Interested in a nutrition degree? These programs may also be of interest to you:

  • B.S. in Human Nutrition and Food, Dietetics Concentration
  • B.S. in Kinesiology and Health Promotion
  • B.S. in Medical Laboratory Science
  • B.S. in Physiology
  • Human and Animal Physiology Minor
  • Human Nutrition Minor
  • WWAMI Medical Education

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  1. PhD in Nutrition & Integrative Physiology

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  2. Department of Nutrition & Integrative Physiology (NUIP)

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  3. NUIP Degree Programs

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  4. KRISTINE C. JORDAN, PhD, RD

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  10. Mary C Playdon, PhD, MPH

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  11. Registered Dietitian Nutritionist Credential

    The cost is $30 per year. It can also be completed in-person at the following location: Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing. Utah Dietitian Licensing Board. PO Box 146741. Salt Lake City, UT 84114-6741. Phone: 801-530-6179. Fax: 801-530-6511.

  12. Coordinated Master's Degree Program (CMP)

    In 2022, the Nutrition and Integrative Physiology (NUIP) graduate programs successfully completed a ten-year graduate school review. Reviewers noted the quality teaching, research, and service provided by the department. The University of Utah is accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities.

  13. SCOTT SUMMERS, PhD

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  14. Overview

    Department. 801-581-6730. [email protected]. Nutrition & Integrative Physiology (NUIP), at the University of Utah (UofU) College of Health (COH). MS Degree in Nutrition and Integrative Physiology with an Emphasis in Nutrition.

  15. Nutrition and Food Sciences

    Awards are available for entering master's degree students, as well as for PhD candidates. Applications are due February 1. To obtain an application, visit the Department of Nutrition, Dietetics, and Food Sciences website or contact the department. A variety of funding opportunities are available on the graduate school website.

  16. Nutrition and Integrative Physiology, Ph.D.

    Nutrition and Integrative Physiology unique program at University of Utah, generally completed in four to five years, focuses on the primary literature and teaches students the latest technologies needed to be elite scientists and research scholars. Students generally align their courses along one of the following tracks: Nutrition

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  18. Department of Nutrition and Integrative Physiology

    Department of Nutrition and Integrative Physiology at University of Utah provides on-going educational opportunities to those students seeking advanced degrees. Department of Nutrition and Integrative Physiology - University of Utah - Graduate Programs and Degrees

  19. University of Utah Fully Funded PhD in Nutrition and Integrative

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  22. Dietitian/Nutrition Services

    Registered Dietitian Approved (RD Approved) is a healthy food and beverage initiative at the University of Utah. As a collaboration between Wellness & Integrative Health and Nutrition Care Services, the RD Approved mission is to make the healthy choice the easy choice campus-wide. This means we're working on increasing the availability and ...

  23. Program: Animal, Dairy and Veterinary Sciences

    The proposed combined graduate program will be designated as Animal, Dairy, and Veterinary Sciences with MS and PhD options and five specializations: Animal Management, Animal Heath and Disease (new specialization), Animal Molecular Genetics (name change), Animal Nutrition, and Reproduction and Development (name change). Graduate Programs

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  25. A Prescription for More Affordable Pharmacy Education

    Joey Mattingly, PharmD, MBA, PhD. Joey Mattingly is an associate professor and Vice Chair for Research at the University of Utah College of Pharmacy. Since 2014, Mattingly has developed a research portfolio that primarily focuses on drug pricing policy.

  26. Utah State University Athletics

    Utah State shot 53.6 percent (30-of-56) from the field, 30.0 percent (6-of-20) from downtown and 75.0 percent (21-of-28) at the free-throw line. Senior forward Mustapha Amzil paced the Lobos with 18 points, five rebounds and two assists.

  27. Human Nutrition & Food Major

    Students pursuing the human nutrition and food major may choose to apply to the Didactic Program in Nutrition and Dietetics — which is required in order to receive the Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN) credential.. We pride ourselves on having a 100% match rate for students pursuing a dietetic internship, whereas the national rate is typically between 60% and 70%.

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  29. Performance Nutrition Webinar: Brittle bones in elite cycling: Causes

    Performance Nutrition Webinar: Brittle bones in elite cycling: Causes, consequences, and treatment options, by Jan-Willem van Dijk, PhD, HAN University of Applied Sciences (The Netherlands) Webinar series organized by Dr. Floris Wardenaar of the College of Health Solutions. During this series, he invites inspiring speakers from the field of ...