Chengfeng Merriman, who joined the Fu lab in 2014 as a Research Specialist, is profiled in The Journal of Biological Chemistry for her article, which earned Paper of the Week published on December 30, 2016, entitled Lipid-tuned Zinc Transport Activity of Human ZnT8 Protein Correlates with Risk for Type-2 Diabetes. Congratulations!
Read on to learn more about a new biomedical study being conducted in Dr. Dax Fu’s lab using a screening method they developed to identify drugs that would potentially lower diabetes risk for millions.