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HSPH Student Receives Award
Congratulations to Haiyan Xu, doctoral student
in the Division of Biological Sciences, for
winning the Medical Sigma Xi Harvard-Radcliffe
Chapter Scientific Recognition Award! She received
the award for her work, "Increased Expression
of Transmembrane TNF in Adipose Tissue: A Local Regulator of Fat Mass and Mediator of
Obesity-linked Insulin Resistance," an investigation
into the molecular basis of obesity-induced diabetes.
Xu and her coauthor and advisor,
Gökhan Hotamisligil, assistant professor of nutrition,
were presented with the award at the Sigma Xi
Spring Banquet on May 5 at the Harvard Faculty Club.
